Jack Donovan (writer)

Jack Donovan is a masculinist, former leader in the Wolves of Vinland, and writer.

Personal life and beliefs

Donovan grew up in a blue-collar household in rural Pennsylvania. He moved to New York in the 1990s to study fine art. During this period, he says that he attended gay clubs, marched in gay pride parades, and associated with drag queens.[1][2]

Donovan has suggested that the United States is moving towards a failed state. He suggests that his allies build resilient local networks to "survive the collapse and preserve you identities after the Fall". Donovan views this in a positive light, as an opportunity make America "a place for men again".[3]

Donovan does not support gay rights, partially out of a lack of belief in civil rights in general. Describing "reproductive sexuality" of straights as superior to that of gay men, he suggests that straight people deserve more power and privilege. He opposes other parts of the LGBT community, including lesbian, trans, and genderqueer people. Investigative journalist and expert on right-wing extremism Chip Berlet notes that this emergence of gay figures among alt-right leadership in the United States is unusual compared to the international far-right scene as of 2017.[4]

When asked about his perspective on the Holocaust, Donovan replied "What is this Holocaust thing? I'm drawing a blank." Donovan was an influential figure among the alt-right.[4] Donovan has on some occasions tried to distance himself from white nationalism. In his 2011 essay "Mighty White", for instance, Donovan notes that he prefers to write about the sexiness of violent maschismo rather than white nationalism. In May 2017, Donovan wrote an essay title "Why I am not a White Nationalist", describing how he does not wish to organize with anyone, preferring instead "to hang out in the woods with ... the people who I am oathed to, my tribe, the Wolves of Vinland". Nonetheless, he writes repeatedly on his website about the "black-on-white crime rate", "the deeply entrenched anti-white bias" of American culture, and says "I support White Nationalists".[4][5]

Prior to the 2016 US presidential election, Donovan tentatively supported Hillary Clinton as a candidate who could "drive home the reality that white men are no longer in charge... and that [the United States] is no longer their country and never will be again".[6]

Writing and work

Donovan's fanbase includes both gay men interested in his macho style and straight men from the manosphere and pickup artist culture. He highlights in particular a hatred for "effeminacy", feminism, and "weakness." Donovan opposes consensual BDSM.[4] He does not write for women.[7]

Donovan joined the Wolves of Vinland in 2014 after visiting their rural Virginia community[8]

In 2016, Donovan appeared on Milo Yiannopoulos' podcast.[9][10] In Milo's Breitbart piece "An Establishment Conservative Guide to the Alt-Right", the provocateur relies on Donovan's writings along side those of Richard B. Spencer and Steve Sailer.[11] Donovan spoke at Richard B. Spencer's white supremacist thinktank, the National Policy Institute, in 2013[12] and 2015.[4]

Androphilia

Donovan published Androphilia: A Manifesto: Rejecting the Gay Identity, Reclaiming Masculinity under the pseudonym "Jack Malebranche" in 2006. In this book, Donovan describes what he sees as a distinction between same-sex desire and the word gay, which to him "describes a whole cultural and political movement that promotes anti-male feminism, victim mentality, and leftist politics". Donovan defines himself in the term androphile which describes anyone who is attracted to men.[1][13][14]

A Sky Without Eagles

Donovan wrote the book A Sky Without Eagles. In the book, Donovan puts forward his support for "pan-secessionism", an idea in which racially segregated, small, decentralized "homelands" would form. In all-white "autonomous zones", says Donovan, men would control political life, with women "not permitted to rule or take part in... political life".[4]

References
  1. O'Connor, Maureen (30 April 2017). "The Philosophical Fascists of the Gay Alt-Right". The Cut. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020. Jack Donovan — a 42-year-old skinhead icon and right-wing extremist — lived the gay life once. It was in the 1990s, after he left his parents’ blue-collar home in rural Pennsylvania to study fine art in New York, when he danced go-go in gay clubs, hung out with drag queens, and marched for gay pride.
  2. Read, Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Noreen Malone, Max (30 April 2017). "Beyond Alt: Understanding the New Far Right". Intelligencer.
  3. Lyons, Matthew N. (2018). Insurgent supremacists : the U.S. far right's challenge to state and empire. Oakland, California: PM Press. p. 120. ISBN 9781629635118.
  4. Minkowitz, Donna (5 June 2017). "What's Attracting Gay Men to the Fascist, White Nationalist Alt-Right?". Slate Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  5. Perry, Douglas (15 August 2017). "Tracking Oregon's white supremacist and other hate groups". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  6. Lyons, Matthew N. (2018). Insurgent supremacists : the U.S. far right's challenge to state and empire. Oakland, California: PM Press. p. 122. ISBN 9781629635118.
  7. Lyons, Matthew N. (2018). Insurgent supremacists : the U.S. far right's challenge to state and empire. Oakland, California: PM Press. p. 172. ISBN 9781629635118.
  8. Lyons, Matthew N. (2018). Insurgent supremacists : the U.S. far right's challenge to state and empire. Oakland, California: PM Press. pp. 112–115. ISBN 9781629635118.
  9. Burley, Shane (19 October 2017). "What Breitbart's Email Leaks Mean for Public Perception of the "Alt-Right"". Truthout. Archived from the original on 17 November 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  10. Donovan, Jack (6 May 2016). "The Milo Yiannopoulos Show: Episode 7 - Jack Donovan". The Milo Yiannopoulos Show (Interview). Interviewed by Milo Yiannopoulos. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  11. Hankes, Keegan (25 August 2016). "Whose Alt-Right Is It Anyway?". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 16 June 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  12. Fox, Lauren M. (29 October 2013). ""We want to change the world": Inside a white supremacist conference aimed at millennials". Salon. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  13. Beck, Byron (22 May 2007). "Jack Malebranche is Totally Not Gay". Willamette Week. Archived from the original on 29 August 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  14. Gardner, Will (24 May 2007). "Androphilia: Rejecting the Gay Identity, Reclaiming Masculinity". Portland Mercury. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
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