Gavin Miles McInnes is a Canadian writer, podcaster, far-right commentator and founder of the Proud Boys.
45 Facts About Gavin McInnes
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Gavin McInnes is the host of Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McInnes on Censored.
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Gavin McInnes co-founded Vice magazine in 1994 at the age of 24, and relocated to the United States in 2001.
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Gavin McInnes graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa before moving to Montreal and co-founding Vice with Suroosh Alvi and Shane Smith.
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Gavin McInnes relocated with Vice Media to New York City in 2001.
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Gavin McInnes holds both Canadian and British citizenship and lives in Larchmont, New York.
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In 2018, Gavin McInnes was fired from Blaze Media, and was banned from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for violating terms of use related to promoting violent extremist groups and hate speech.
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Gavin McInnes's family migrated to Canada when McInnes was four, settling in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Gavin McInnes co-founded Vice in 1994 with Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi.
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Gavin McInnes later wrote in a letter to Gawker that the interview was done as a prank intended to ridicule "baby boomer media like The Times".
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Gavin McInnes left Vice in 2008 due to what he described as "creative differences".
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Gavin McInnes co-founded an advertising agency called Rooster where he served as creative director.
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In 2010, Gavin McInnes was approached by Adult Swim and asked to play the part of Mick, an anthropomorphic Scottish soccer ball, in the short-lived Aqua Teen Hunger Force spin-off Soul Quest Overdrive.
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Gavin McInnes wrote a column for Taki's Magazine, beginning around 2011, that made casual use of racial and anti-gay slurs, as described by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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In 2012, Gavin McInnes wrote a book called How to Piss in Public.
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Also that year, Gavin McInnes starred in the independent film How to Be a Man, which premiered at Sundance Next Weekend.
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Gavin McInnes has played supporting roles in other films including Soul Quest Overdrive, Creative Control and One More Time.
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In June 2015, broadcaster Anthony Cumia announced that Gavin McInnes would be hosting a show on his network, therefore retiring the Free Speech podcast that he had started in March.
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Gavin McInnes is a former contributor to Canadian far-right portal The Rebel Media and a regular on conspiracy theorist media platform Infowars' The Alex Jones Show, and Fox News' Red Eye, The Greg Gutfeld Show, and The Sean Hannity Show.
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Gavin McInnes has rejected this classification, claiming that the group is "not an extremist group and [does] not have ties with white nationalists".
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Gavin McInnes left Rebel News in August 2017, declaring that he was going to be "a multi-media Howard Stern-meets-Tucker Carlson".
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Gavin McInnes later joined CRTV, an online television network launched by Conservative Review.
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On 12 October 2018, Gavin McInnes participated in a reenactment of the 1960 assassination of socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma by Otoya Yamaguchi at the Metropolitan Republican Club.
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Later that month, Gavin McInnes was planning on travelling to Australia for a speaking tour with Milo Yiannopoulos and Tommy Robinson, but was informed by Australian immigration authorities that "he was judged to be of bad character" and would be denied a visa to enter the country.
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On 3 December 2018, Conservative Review Television, on which Gavin McInnes had hosted the Get Off My Lawn program, merged with BlazeTV, the television arm of Glenn Beck's TheBlaze, to become Blaze Media.
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In reaction to the Proud Boys fight in October 2018, residents of the suburban Westchester community of Larchmont, where Gavin McInnes lives, began a "Hate Has No Home Here" campaign, which involved displaying that slogan on lawn signs around the community.
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Gavin McInnes said that the Proud Boys was a "drinking club [he] started several years ago as a joke".
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Gavin McInnes's threats were such that several neighbours notified the police.
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Gavin McInnes claimed that SPLC contributed to his or the Proud Boys' being deplatformed by Twitter, PayPal, Mailchimp, and iTunes.
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The platform features Gavin McInnes' primary show, Get Off My Lawn.
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Gavin McInnes later dismissed these allegation whilst announcing the arrival of several new shows on his platform.
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In December 2022, Gavin McInnes interviewed Kanye West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
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Gavin McInnes is a hatemonger," while the defense said that McInnes was being "demonized.
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Gavin McInnes describes himself as "a fiscal conservative and libertarian" and part of the New Right, a term that he prefers rather than alt-right.
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Gavin McInnes has referred to himself as a "western chauvinist" and started a men's organization called Proud Boys who swear their allegiance to this cause.
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Gavin McInnes has said his group is not a white nationalist group.
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Gavin McInnes has been accused of racism and of promoting white supremacist rhetoric.
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Gavin McInnes has used racial slurs against Susan Rice and Jada Pinkett Smith, and more widely against Palestinians and Asians.
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Gavin McInnes has said that there is a "mass conformity that black people push on each other".
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Gavin McInnes is listed as a contributor to the 2016 book Black Lies Matter which criticizes the Black Lives Matter movement.
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In March 2017, a group of Rebel Media hosts, including Gavin McInnes, spent a week touring Israel.
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Gavin McInnes later said that his comments were taken out of context.
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Gavin McInnes produced a comedic video for Rebel called "Ten Things I Hate about Jews", later retitled "Ten Things I Hate About Israel".
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In October 2013, Gavin McInnes said during a panel interview that "people would be happier if women would stop pretending to be men" and that feminism "has made women less happy".
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Gavin McInnes has espoused the white genocide conspiracy theory saying that white women having abortions and immigration is "leading to white genocide in the West".