ASU President Defends ‘Queer’ Professor after Attempted Assault Against TPUSA Cameraman
Arizona State University (ASU) President Michael Crow issued a statement defending Professor David Boyles, who attempted to assault a Turning Point USA cameraman on campus.
Crow called members of TPUSA’s Frontlines team “cowards” in a statement responding to an altercation that took place at ASU last week in which a “queer” faculty member attempted to assault the TPUSA cameraman, who was then defended by the Frontlines reporter, Kalen D’Almeida.
Surveillance footage of the incident posted on YouTube by the ASU Police Department clearly captured the altercation. In the video, Boyles can be seen lunging toward the cameraman, who quickly moved away from the faculty member. After this, D’Almeida is seen attempting to deter Boyles and protect the cameraman. The cameraman has filed a report with ASU’s police department detailing the incident. TPUSA communicated with Sergeant Anderson on Friday afternoon, however, the organization has not been contacted regarding the status of the cameraman’s report in four days.
“I watched the video of the incident multiple times,” Crow said, before defending Boyles’ position on staff at the university. “Dr. Boyles as an instructor at ASU teaches writing and English literature including a class which draws from LGBTQ+ literature. He is part of an academic community that appropriately engages our students across the entire spectrum of human experience and expression.”
“Here’s the video evidence, clear as day,” TPUSA CEO and Founder Charlie Kirk said in a post to X (formerly Twitter). “Professor Boyles attacked our crew first, and our reporter, Kalen D’Almeida, pushed him off to protect his cameraman. Violence is never okay and just because Professor Boyles happens to be gay (or whatever) doesn’t give him the right to attack people because he doesn’t like the questions they’re asking.”
TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist first brought attention to Boyles after uncovering a series of pedophilic articles published on Substack, authored by the ASU professor, detailing fictional sexual relationships between minors and adults. “One series on the platform told the story of a young Christian boy named Isaac who, upon the recommendation of his guidance counselor, is introduced to a “tutor” and her queer friends. The content appeared to depict an indoctrination of the child into the queer world, including his exposure to sexual experiences before his 18th birthday. Boyles has since bleached this series from his Substack,” TPUSA reported.
In his posts, Boyles claimed to be “obsessed with” sex education which he also called systemically racist because “black people and immigrants were typically viewed as being sexually promiscuous and aggressive and sex education was designed to keep good white kids from being ‘infected’ by them.”
“On May 16, 2023, Boyles published a blog – ‘Queer Joy Summer Planting #3: Promote Radical Queer Sex Education’ – in which he stated he was ‘trying to plant more queer joy in the world.’ He also said:
‘Sex education is a topic I’ve been obsessed with for a while … In 2021, I did a three-part ‘Queering Sex Ed’ series on the history of sex education in America and the ways in which it has traditionally erased queer people, as well as the ways in which queer people have resisted this erasure and cared for their communities by creating their own sex ed underground.’”
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Boyles is also responsible for establishing an Arizona chapter of the national organization, Drag Queen Story Hour, in 2019, to facilitate events for male drag queens to read LGBTQ+ books to children while dressed in drag.
In his post on X, Kirk also stated that the TPUSA reporter “used his constitutionally protected speech to ask a taxpayer-funded employee some simple questions: Why is he the Phoenix sponsor of Drag Queen Story Hour? Why is he exposing minors to fetishists who dress up as women around little kids? Why is Boyles publishing books about minors having sex with adults? Why does he market his books in the ‘coming of age’ section of Amazon? Why is he obsessed with underground queer sex ed?”
“President Crow is lying to his university, despite clear evidence contradicting his every word,” Kirk added. “Facing a $400 million budget shortfall and an AZ state investigation into violations of free speech, President Crow is picking a strange hill to die on.”
Earlier this year, 39 faculty members of ASU’s Barrett Honors College petitioned the university to “disassociate” from TPUSA CEO Charlie Kirk, as well as conservative speaker and co-founder of PragerU, Dennis Prager.
Several months later, Crow requested that ASU faculty members be removed from the Professor Watchlist website. In a comment provided to the Arizona Republic regarding Crow’s request, TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet said “ASU has much bigger free speech problems than Turning Point USA’s PWL. It’s worth repeating a basic fact. PWL is a project that simply gathers already publicly available quotes, comments, and videos from professors, like those employed at ASU, in one searchable database. If ASU doesn’t like us listing the outrageous things their professors say in public, then they should fire them.”
