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'''Proud Boys''' is a [[Wikipedia:far-right|far-right]] men's organization<ref name="Carter"/><ref name="Long"/><ref name="CBC">{{cite web|last1=Tasker|first1=John Paul|title=Head of Canada's Indigenous veterans group hopes Proud Boys don't lose their CAF jobs|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/indigenous-veterans-group-proud-boys-1.4191749|website=CBC|publisher=CBC|accessdate=July 6, 2017}}</ref><ref>Paige St. John & Veronica Rocha, [http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-live-updates-berkeley-ann-coulter-conservative-and-alt-right-groups-1493319826-htmlstory.html Conservative and alt-right groups gather for 'free speech' rally in Berkeley], ''Los Angeles Times'' (April 27, 2017): "far right group Proud Boys..."</ref> with presences in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.<ref name=indigenous>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41116175|title=-='Proud Boys' back in Canada military after crashing indigenous ceremony|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=31 August 2017}}</ref><ref name="Gilbert">{{cite news|last1=Gilbert|first1=Simon|title=Right wing activist warns people to avoid "immigrant city" Coventry which he claims is "awful"|url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-immigration-right-wing-mcinnes-13400542|accessdate=8 February 2018|publisher=Coventry Telegraph|date=30 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Vetting Groups and Portals |url=http://proudboysusa.com/joinus/ |website=Proud Boys |publisher=Proud Boys |accessdate=8 August 2018}}</ref> It was founded in 2016 by [[Wikipedia:Vice Media|Vice Media]] co-founder and former commentator [[:Category:Gavin McInnes|Gavin McInnes]]. McInnes describes the group as a "pro-Western fraternal organization" for men who "refuse to apologize for creating the modern world."<ref>{{cite web|last=Osnos |first=Evan |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/06/trump-supporters-at-the-deploraball |title=Trump Supporters at the DeploraBall |publisher=The New Yorker |date=February 6, 2017 |accessdate=March 6, 2017}}</ref> Proud Boys has been described as both [[:Category:Alt-Right|alt-right]] and [[:Category:Alt-Right|alt-lite]], <ref name="Marantz">Andrew Marantz, [http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-alt-right-branding-war-has-torn-the-movement-in-two/ The Alt-Right Branding War Has Torn the Movement in Two], ''The New Yorker'' (July 6, 2017).</ref><ref name="medium">{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/@willsommer/the-fratty-proud-boys-are-the-alt-rights-weirdest-new-phenomenon-7572b31e50f2 |title=The fratty Proud Boys are the alt right's weirdest new phenomenon |publisher=Medium.com |date= |accessdate=March 10, 2017}}</ref> but although McInnes has denied the group is alt-right <ref name="Woodhouse">{{cite news|last1=Woodhouse|first1=Leighton Akio|title=AFTER CHARLOTTESVILLE, THE AMERICAN FAR RIGHT IS TEARING ITSELF APART|url=https://theintercept.com/2017/09/21/gavin-mcinnes-alt-right-proud-boys-richard-spencer-charlottesville/|accessdate=10 January 2018|publisher=The Intercept|date=21 September 2017}}</ref> is it one is is one of the few such groups still strongly active after a year in which the broader movement has been battered by lawsuits, [[Wikipedia:deplatforming|deplatforming]], and infighting.<ref name="One of the Few Remaining Alt-Right Groups Still Going">{{Cite web |url=https://thinkprogress.org/sheriffs-deputy-fired-for-being-part-of-far-right-proud-boys-group-3d445cbbaf57/|title=Sheriff’s deputy fired after social media posts reveal ties to far-right Proud Boys: Brian Green was determined to have violated the department's social media policy.|last=Barnes |first=Luke |date=2018-08-17 |website=Think Progress |accessdate=2018-10-11}}</ref>

The group takes its name from the showtune "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv0jav4lNsk Proud of Your Boy]," a song cut from the [[Wikipedia:Cabaret (1972 film)|Disney film ''Aladdin'']], in which the title character apologizes to his mother.<ref name="medium" /><ref name="Disser">Disser, Nicole (July 28, 2016). [http://bedfordandbowery.com/2016/07/gavin-mcinnes-and-his-proud-boys-want-to-make-white-men-great-again/ Gavin McInnes and his Proud Boys want to make white men great again]. Bedfordandbowery.com</ref> The group has [[Wikipedia:Fight Club|Fight Club]]-style initiations, and masturbation rules.<ref name="Disser"/> Their unofficial uniform is khaki shorts and Fred Perry polo shirts.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.gq.com/story/fred-perry-wants-alt-right-bros-to-stop-wearing-their-polos | title = Fred Perry Wants Alt-Right Bros to Stop Wearing Their Polos | date = July 11, 2017 | author = Jake Woolf | publisher = GQ}}</ref>