By Alvin McEwen

Alvin McEwen

Alvin McEwen resides in Columbia, S.C. and is the author of Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Exposing the Lies of the Anti-Gay Industry. He is also a board member of the SC Pride Movement and a member of SC Black Pride.

In June 2009, McEwen became the first gay man of color to address LGBT issues on the editorial pages of The State, South Carolina's largest newspaper. He is the 2007 recipient of the Harriet Daniels Hancock Volunteer of the Year Award, the 2010 recipient of the Order of the Pink Palmetto from the SC Pride Movement, and the 2009 recipient of the Audre Lorde/James Baldwin Civil Rights Activist Award from SC Black Pride.

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Tony Perkins

Family Research Council statement needs a little ‘editing’

Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Last year when the Southern Poverty Law Center named several religious right groups as anti-gay hate groups, many of them united (with the Family Research Council – one of the groups named – leading the way) in a campaign with the semi- catchy title of Start Debating/Stop Hating... [ Read more → ]
charlotte-pride

Unfair attack on Charlotte Pride does not go unanswered

Tuesday, August 30, 2011
An area minister, Michael Brown, sought to interrupt last weekend's Charlotte Pride event with something he called “God Has A Better Way,” in which he and a large number of folks wearing red t-shirts infiltrate the pride event, try to preach to the folks there, and generally attempt to disrupt the festivities. [ Read more → ]
Rick Perry

Rick Perry’s homophobia problem is more serious than originally thought

Friday, August 26, 2011
While the gay community is distracted by the antics of Michele Bachmann and her husband, the real danger to our equality --Texas Governor Rick Perry -- is trying to sneak into the Oval Office. [ Read more → ]
John Boehner

Boehner’s DOMA defense contains junk science, bad sources

Wednesday, August 24, 2011
On Monday it was discovered that one of the experts, Professor Lisa Diamond, cited by Speaker of the House John Boehner’s legal team in their defense of DOMA complained that her work was being distorted. [ Read more → ]
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Sixteen reasons why Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council is a hate group

Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Tony Perkins of the hate group the Family Research Council recently had the temerity to attack the Obama Administration for its participation in the “It Gets Better” campaign. This is the campaign designed to raise the self-esteem of LGBTQ youth and raise awareness of the problems they encounter with bullying. [ Read more → ]
David Barton

Since when is connecting the gay community to human waste ‘truthful research?’

Sunday, August 21, 2011
Earlier this month, phony historian David Barton and WallBuilders Live co-host Rick Green went on a tangent about (what else) the supposed gay agenda in schools during a radio program. [ Read more → ]
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NOM’s marriage pledge includes a ‘witch-hunt’ against the gay community

Saturday, August 20, 2011
While there is a lot of noise being made over the NOM's pledge to "protect marriage," a passage in that pledge is escaping some much deserved scrutiny. Presidential candidates who signed the pledge have promised to "Appoint a presidential commission to investigate harassment of traditional marriage supporters." [ Read more → ]
gayparents

Silly phony ‘activist’ Michael Brown claims that gays are ‘sexualizing’ children

Thursday, August 18, 2011
In a column in One News Now, an “activist” named Michael Brown reveals the ignorance of the religious right when it comes to the gay community. [ Read more → ]
Joe Walsh

Deadbeat dad Congressman puts down same-sex households

Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Joe Walsh: Perhaps it would be a good idea to pay your damn child support before you start creating caste systems against loving families simply because they may contain parents of the same-sex. [ Read more → ]
glsen

GLSEN issues cease-and-desist letter to anti-gay Family Research Council

Monday, August 15, 2011
GLSEN on Monday issued a cease-and-desist letter via its attorneys to the Family Research Council "demanding that FRC cease distribution and publication of a video clip containing false and defamatory statements, as well as any other similar false and defamatory statements that may be contained in a longer video associated with that video clip." [ Read more → ]
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NOM slapped down by the courts while its bus tour is flopping hard

Friday, August 12, 2011
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has again ruled against the National Organization for Marriage’s attempts to challenge the “constitutionality of a Rhode Island election law requiring the reporting of so-called ‘independent expenditures.’” [ Read more → ]
Ann Coulter

If Ann Coulter is a ‘gay icon,’ then I am a busty white woman with a good tan

Thursday, August 11, 2011
Apparently GoProud, which has a much deserved reputation of being the Uncle Toms of the gay rights movement, didn’t get enough of Coulter’s insults at Homocon, when she insulted the idea of marriage equality. [ Read more → ]
Tom M

Petition launched to get Congress to call out false anti-gay testimony

Tuesday, August 9, 2011
While there is a need for levity and a desire for all sides of issues involving the gay community to be heard, the constant calling upon of these “morality groups” for Congressional testimony in spite of their irregularities mentioned does present a problem in terms resolving the issues of the gay community in a fair manner. [ Read more → ]
Rick Perry

Rick Perry’s prayer rally a failed hot mess of hypocrisy

Sunday, August 7, 2011
Luckily I was away at a family reunion — celebrating actual love — so I missed Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s hot mess of a rally on Saturday. But Right Wing Watch made videos of certain scenes. And they just kill me. How in the world can some of these people dare to pray to God for deliverance for the nation while ignoring their own sins? [ Read more → ]
Armstrong Williams

It’s not a good idea for Armstrong Williams to criticize homosexuality

Sunday, August 7, 2011
What strikes me as blatant audacity by Armstrong Williams is the fact that he would actually have the nerve to criticize homosexuality seeing that he was sued in 1997 for sexual harassment by his male trainer, Stephen Gregory. [ Read more → ]
values-bus-tour

NOM’s ‘Values Voter” bus tour will spread ‘Santorum’ and general homophobia

Saturday, August 6, 2011
NOM’s “Values Bus” tour ought to be interesting in a nauseatingly sort of way. And I know that there are many in the lgbtq community hoping for some type of “Road to Damascus” conversion by some of the attendants or at the very least, a complete bus break down in the middle of lonely road in the blazing heat or even better – in the dead of night... [ Read more → ]
nom

NOM’s Proposition 8 hypocrisy will not be forgotten

Tuesday, August 2, 2011
It’s ironic that the National Organization for Marriage spent over 1.8 million in the effort to pass California's Proposition 8, but was nowhere to be seen when it came to defending it in court... [ Read more → ]
Al Franken

NOM whining that Al Franken ‘ambushed’ Tom Minnery during DOMA hearing

Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Over two weeks after an incident in which a Focus on the Family spokesperson was busted during a Congressional hearing for distorting a study, the National Organization for Marriage is trying to sneak in a defense of that spokesperson. [ Read more → ]
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Marinelli: NOM staff spent money on $500 dinners and gambling

Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Former National Organization for Marriage ally Louis J. Marinelli is now claiming that during last year’s dismal “Summer for Marriage” tour, the organization’s staff spent money on $500 dinners and gambling. [ Read more → ]
Tom Minnery

Tom Minnery’s lies are commonplace in religious right data

Monday, July 25, 2011
Minnery's misreading of study in order present a bad picture of same-sex households is commonplace in religious right data. Often times, religious right spokespeople will cite studies which have nothing to do with same-sex households in order to claim that these households are not the best place to raise children. [ Read more → ]
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