April 1, 1957 - Scott Lively
His influence extended well beyond American culture-war activism when his talks to Ugandan lawmakers helped shape legislation that imposed severe criminal penalties on same-sex conduct — a transnational reach that distinguishes him from most domestic anti-LGBTQ campaigners. The pseudohistorical arguments advanced in The Pink Swastika provided a template for reframing persecution as historical necessity, lending an academic veneer to calls for criminalization that he had been articulating openly since at least 2007.
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Scott Douglas Lively (born December 14, 1957) is an American activist, author, and attorney, who is the president of Abiding Truth Ministries, an anti-LGBTQ group based in Temecula, California. He was also a cofounder of Latvia-based group Watchmen on the Walls, state director of the California branch of the American Family Association, and a spokesman for the Oregon Citizens Alliance. He unsuccessfully ran to be the governor of Massachusetts in both 2014 and 2018.
Lively has promoted a hardline anti-gay interpretation of the Bible, been involved in the ex-gay movement, and been staunchly opposed to LGBTQ rights. In 1995, he co-authored The Pink Swastika, a book claiming gay people were prominent in the Nazi Party and were behind Nazi atrocities. He has called for the criminalization of "the public advocacy of homosexuality" as far back as 2007. Widely credited as an engineer of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014, he gave a series of talks to Ugandan lawmakers before the drafting of the Act.
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