Roy Steele (JiveInThe415.com)

Roy is a gay blogger, writer, queer activist, equality advocate, and anti-bullying evangelist. He crusades against the lies and misinformation that right-wing extremists and evangelical Christians use to spread anti-gay propaganda.

He led a successful boycott of American retail stores that were financing anti-gay hate groups through affiliate marketing schemes. The boycott received extensive coverage from major media organizations. Reporter Michelle Goldberg wrote about the boycott for Newsweek/Daily Beast in an article entitled “Christian Group’s New Gay War,” and The New York Times documented the campaign in “Retailers get heat for sales that generate anti-gay aid.”

The homophobic former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, called Roy “an economic terrorist” because his boycott campaign resulted in over 150 retail organizations severing ties with anti-gay groups.

Roy is a northern New Jersey native – who went to Rutgers College – and was a Financial Analyst in the private sector for over ten years. He currently makes his home in San Francisco, California.