Expulsion from the SFWA In 2013, Beale ran unsuccessfully against
Steven Gould to succeed
John Scalzi as president of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (
SFWA). African-American writer
N. K. Jemisin, during her delivery of the Guest of Honour speech at 2013 Continuum in Australia, stated that 10% of the SFWA membership voted for Beale in his bid for the SFWA presidential position and called him "a self-described misogynist, racist, anti-Semite, and a few other flavors of asshole" and asserted that silence about these issues was the same as enabling them. Beale responded by calling Jemisin an "ignorant half-savage". Beale tweeted a link to his comments about Jemisin on the SFWA's official @SFWAAuthors Twitter feed. The SFWA Board subsequently voted unanimously to expel him from the organization.
Rabid Puppies and Hugo Awards controversy 2015 Rabid Puppies campaign Based on
Larry Correia's "
Sad Puppies" ballot-manipulation campaign, Beale implemented a
slate of candidates for the 2015
Hugo Awards called "
Rabid Puppies", instructing his followers to nominate the slate "precisely as they are." where Beale acts as lead editor. Two authors, an editor, and a fanzine subsequently withdrew their own nominations; three of these four explicitly cited the wish to dissociate themselves from Beale as being among their reasons for doing so. Withdrawals from the
Best Novel category allowed space for
Liu Cixin's
The Three-Body Problem to move into a finalist position, and it went on to win the
Hugo Award for Best Novel. Although the winning novel was one of the few nominees not on the Rabid Puppies slate, some sources credited the win to Beale's backing of the novel. Beale stated that his intentions behind the Rabid Puppies campaign were that he "wanted to leave a big smoking hole where the Hugo Awards were" and send "a giant Fuck You—one massive gesture of contempt." He also said that no matter how the Hugo administrators modify the nominating process to try to prevent manipulation, he will still have enough supporters to control future awards: "I have 390 sworn and numbered vile faceless minions who are sworn to mindless and perfect obedience."
2016 Rabid Puppies campaign In 2016, Beale continued the Rabid Puppies campaign, posting a slate of finalists for the Hugo Award, including all finalists in the Best Short Story category. Beale included himself on the slate of candidates, and was nominated in the category Best Editor, Long Form, the
Castalia House Blog edited by Jeffro Johnson in the category Best Fanzine, and his own non-fiction release
SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, published by Castalia House, in the category Best Related Work. Other Rabid Puppy recommendations that were Hugo Award finalists included
Chuck Tingle's
gay erotica short story
Space Raptor Butt Invasion and
Hao Jingfang's
Folding Beijing, which won in the Best Novelette category. All nominated works associated with Castalia House ranked below No Award.
Gamergate Beale was an early supporter of
Gamergate and hosted the GGinParis meetup in July 2015 with
Milo Yiannopoulos and
Mike Cernovich.
''Rebel's Run'' movie In 2019, Beale put together a campaign to
crowdfund ''Rebel's Run'', which was to be an "anti-woke" superhero movie. The campaign exceeded its original goal and collected slightly over a million dollars in funding, By video, Beale told the subscribers "I wouldn't count on us getting the money back." == Hugo Award nominations ==