Gay lämnar förlag i protest mot Breitbart-författare

Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American feminist writer, professor, editor and commentator. She is an associate professor of English at Purdue University, contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, founder of Tiny Hardcore Press, essays editor for The Rumpus, and co-editor of PANK, a nonprofit literary arts collective.

Breitbart News Network (known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart or Breitbart.com) is a far-right American news, opinion and commentary website founded in 2007 by conservative commentator and entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart. It also has a daily radio program on the Sirius XM Patriot channel called Breitbart News Daily. Breitbart is headquartered in Los Angeles, with bureaus in Texas, London, and Jerusalem. Co-founder Larry Solov is the owner and CEO, while Joel Pollak is the senior editor-at-large, and Alexander Marlow is managing-editor. Conceived by Andrew Breitbart during a visit to Israel in summer 2007, with the aim of founding a site "that would be unapologetically pro-freedom and pro-Israel", Breitbart later aligned with the European populist right and American alt-right under the management of former executive chairman Steven K. Bannon's management. The New York Times describes Breitbart News as an organization with "ideologically driven journalists", that is a source of controversy "over material that has been called misogynist, xenophobic and racist". Bannon declared the site "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016, but has denied all allegations of racism and later stated that he rejected the "ethno-nationalist" tendencies of the alt-right movement. The owners of Breitbart deny their website has any connection to the alt-right, or has ever supported any racist or white supremacist views. Breitbart has been described as a "potent voice" for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and the political scientist Matthew Goodwin described Breitbart as being "ultra-conservative" in orientation. Notable events in Breitbart's history have included the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy, the firing of Shirley Sherrod, the Anthony Weiner sexting scandals, the "Friends of Hamas" story, the Nancy Pelosi/Miley Cyrus ad campaign, the misidentification of Loretta Lynch, and Michelle Fields' allegations against Corey Lewandowski. Shortly after the election, a number of advertisers such as Kellogg's pulled advertising from the site, to which they have responded with asking readers to boycott their products. Since then, more than 400 organizations have reportedly excluded Breitbart from future ad buys.