MUST WATCH: LGBTQ activist ASU professor ASSAULTS TPUSA Frontlines cameraman after being confronted over youth sex obsession

An ASU writing professor, author and Drag Queen Story Hour advocate David Boyles was questioned by TPUSA's Frontlines reporters, and when he got too frustrated with being held to account for his "sex education obsession," pushed the cameraman. That cameraman has now filed criminal charges with Arizona State University police.

Boyles' Instagram lists him as the "head of recruitment" for "The Queer Agenda." His book, "Life is a Banquet," is about a 17-year-old boy who "is feeling suffocated by his conservative Arizona suburb and his parents’ megachurch Christianity."



When he meets the "brilliant, free-spirited, and unapologetically queer college student Rachel," he is able to "come to terms with his own identity." Rachel "introduces him to the sparkling and magical community that orbits around her and her ramshackle off-campus house." The description says that the boy "will get an education unlike any other."



Boyles, who is on the TPUSA professor watch list, noted that he was proud of his "Queering Sex Ed" series, in which he spoke about his "obsession" with sex education. "Sex education is a topic I've been obsessed with for a while," he said. As to the "Queering Sex Ed" series, he said it was "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."

Boyles also claimed that "sex education has been traditionally racist since '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 his Instagram, which has now been made private, he posted on Sept. 10 a photo of himself with some of people in cat ears, saying "I am so very lucky to live this life and will never take it for granted."



Frontlines reporter Kalen D'Almeida approached David Boyles outside a campus building. Boyles wore a skirt, t-shirt, sneakers, and carried a tote on his arm. D'Almeida walked up to Boyles, asking how he was doing. Boyles immediately began to walk away, but D'Almeida continued to question him.

"So let me ask you, when did you decide to get obsessed with sex education?" D'Almeida asked Boyles. Boyles declines to answer any questions, and asks him to put the camera away.

"Are you gonna answer any of my questions?" D'Almeida asked.

"Nope," Boyles said.

"So," D'Almeida continued, walking alongside Boyles, "if I ask you how long you've been attracted to minors? How long you've fantasized about minors having sex with adults and why you write about it in children's books? What are you gonna tell me? Nothing?"

"What are you gonna do?" D'Almeida asks. "David, you can't run. It's best if you just talk to me about why you want to push sodomy on to young people? That's the best thing to do is just have a conversation. You said that, right? 'I'm obsessed with sex education.' You said that? Yes or no. No? Huh? Why do you feel like children need to be exposed to drag? Why is that something that children should be exposed to and why do you feel that drag queens benefit from children being present at drag shows where they shake their genitals and their fake breasts?"

Boyles did not respond, but kept walking. Boyles brought Drag Queen Story Hour to ASU in 2019, establishing a national chapter of the San Francisco-based franchise in Tempe. Boyles has been featured in many "Art of Drag Events," along with those drag performers he's brought in to read at libraries for children. He's claimed that it's only a "myth" that drag shows are harmful to children, and that it would be preferable for there to be more drag in public life. Boyles was wearing a flowing skirt when D'Almeida approached him.

He previously spoke of drag queens as having the intention to "freak out the straight society in all meanings of that word, of the straights, both the heterosexuals but the squares." As to those who are not into drag queens shaking their money makers for children, he said "Groups who oppose Drag Queen Story Hour-Arizona weaponize trends such as #NotInOurSchools and #SaveOurChildren against us. They slander our organization and other LGBTQ+ youth groups to agitate the public into believing that children are in danger, but our goal is to support children and families by countering the erasure of queer stories."

"As queer identity and queer culture becomes more mainstream, kind of comes out of the shadows again, it opens up space for drag to take a lot of different shapes in a lot of different forms," he said in September. He also is a big advocate of minors engaging in drag, touting the Canadian boy Bracken Hanke, who at 13-years-old was a star on the Disney show "Gabby Duran & The Unsittables." For Boyles, as the AZ Free News reported, "Hanke should be seen as an authority on valid perspectives of femininity, claiming Hanke is a girl."

"Who better to make fun of all the ideas of femininity than a teenage girl, you know, who has to deal with all these social pressures," Boyles said.

"Also I was taking a look at your Substack and it seems like you really, really hate Americans," D'Almeida pressed on. Boyles has since taken down his Substack, called Angelic Troublemakers. The series bore similarities to the book he wrote, "Life is a Banquet." It featured descriptions of sex acts between adults and the main character, a teen high school boy.

"Like you are just disgusted with Americans in this country. And it's funny because you would like to see a different America exist where little boys are sodomized by people like you, right?"



At that Boyles approached the camera man and pushed him, but when D'Almeida tried to get Boyles off the cameraman, Boyles fell to the ground and scraped his face. The video cut out as soon as Boyles made contact.

In describing the incident on his now private Instagram, Boyles said "One filmed on his phone while the other shouted horrible and incendiary things at me, repeating standard right-wing nonsense about Drag Story Hour and also accusing me personally of pedophilia and hating America."

Boyles went as far as to call the Frontlines reporters "terrorists."

"Stop coddling these ... terrorists," he wrote. "Call them what they are. ... These people should be shunned from society."

While Boyles said he was attacked, video footage shows that he lunged for the camera. "After reviewing the footage it’s clear Mr. Boyles was not 'attacked,' nor was he 'jumped' or 'slammed,' rather Mr. Boyles initiated a physical altercation," a TPUSA spokesman told AZ Central.