NEW YORK – GLAAD today released research on Alex Jones, the founder of the debunked InfoWars Web site, who will appear on the next episode of NBC’s “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly.”
Jones is known for falsely calling the Sandy Hook massacre a “giant hoax” and claiming the Aurora mass shooting was a “false flag,” but his dangerous and damaging rhetoric does not stop there. Jones has used his website and platform to push countless anti-LGBTQ statements. These claims include saying the Pulse Nightclub massacre was the LGBTQ community’s fault and promoting defamatory myths about the transgender people. Take a look below to see a full history of Alex Jones’ anti-LGBTQ record.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Alex Jones and InfoWars’s Dangerous Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric
Anti-LGBTQ Statements by Alex Jones
Argued the Orlando massacre is LGBT community’s fault. [Right Wing Watch]
Said transgender bathroom access is about “jacking with” children. [The Alex Jones Channel]
Called homosexuality “a very destructive lifestyle on average.” [SoundCloud]
Accused gay parents of taking children from straight people: “It’s not that – I don’t even dislike gay people or hate them. It’s that I’ve been to these events and a lot of times it’s the specialized homosexuals who are collecting everybody’s kids that run them, so then it’s like they’re persecuting us and I’m tired of it.” [AlterNet]
Accused Obama and Clinton of being secretly gay/lesbian, and argued that’s a threat to national security. [InforWars]
Called Glenn Beck is secretly gay. [Mediaite]
Called Mark Cuban secretly gay. [Media Matters]
Accused Michelle Obama of secretly being a man. [InforWars]
Delivered an anti-gay rant against (straight) Congressman Adam Schiff. [The Hill]
Called H.R. McMasters a “leather daddy” who “looks like he could suck a golf ball through a garden hose.” [Media Matters]
Argued that those pushing for LGBTQ rights at the UN of being part of a “space cult, suicide cult, extremism [sic] craziness” meant to “confuse the general specials ahead of rendering us down and removing us.” [SoundCloud]
Accused the UN of being a “space cult plotting to turn children gay.” FULL QUOTE: “The reason there are so many gay people now is because it’s a chemical warfare operation,”…“I have the government documents where they said they’re going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so people don’t have children.” [Salon]
Argued that chemicals in the water are turning frogs and humans gay. [InfoWars]
Anti-LGBTQ Ideas Promoted by InfoWars
Repeated use of term “tranny.” [InfoWars 1;2;3;4]
Accused transgender people of being perverts. FULL QUOTE: “Creepy perverts are the only people affected by anti-transgender bathroom laws, so why is the left so angry about it?” [InfoWars]
Argued the SCOTUS marriage ruling “may pave the way for pedophile rights.” [InfoWars]
Called Russia’s notorious anti-LGBTQ law not really anti-LGBTQ. [InfoWars]
Said the SCOTUS marriage ruling was “unconstitutional and illegal.” FULL QUOTE: “[A]ll court rulings on gay rights, gay marriage or any other matter concerning sexuality are unconstitutional and illegal.” [InfoWars]
Accused President Obama of launching “a gay war against marriage.” [InfoWars]
Called Marco Rubio secretly gay. [InfoWars]
Accused Nintendo of pushing “to introduce homosexual marriage in video game content is part of an aggressive agenda to normalize and force cultural acceptance of a lifestyle many Americans oppose on religious and moral grounds.” [InfoWars]
Compared the Pride flag to the Confederate flag. [InfoWars]
Called LGBTQ rights activists “the gay-KK.” [InfoWars]
Joined American Family Association attacks on LGBTQ-inclusive ads. [InfoWars]
Argued the Dept. of Education should not show support for LGBTQ rights. [InfoWars]
Called Hillary Clinton a closeted lesbian. [InfoWars]
Attacked the Obama White House over an gender-neutral restroom. [InfoWars]
Mocked people for having concerns about homophobic/transgender commercials. [InfoWars]
Went after British schools for teaching about LGBTQI identities. [InfoWars]
Promoted Texas governor’s crass and crude contrast of JFK moon landing and Obama support for transgender bathroom access. [InfoWars]
Other Comments Against Marginalized Movements
Argued that women who are out late at night “deserve” to be assaulted. [Media Matters]
A lot of liberal women, as you know, the new thing is having a jihadi…There’s nothing sexier than a jihadi because it’s so fun to have him step on your head and kick you in the gut. [Right Wing Watch]
Called the Hispanic judge who ruled against Trump a one man KKK. [Mediaite]
Argued that Black Lives Matter was a violent group who physically assault women with the protection of the police. [Infowars]
Racist hate group Black Lives Matter is once more ignoring the facts and using a death as a pretext to riot. [Infowars]
Infowars argued that: “Polarizing race-hate group has made people not care about police brutality.” [Infowars]
Called for the burning the Q’ran, shutting down all mosques, and deportation of all Muslims. [YouTube: Total News T.V]
Infowars promotes the argument that there is “no such thing as moderate Islam.” [Infowars]
