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Additionally, he is "the descendant of African slaves.".
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Robert Lopez
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Lopez graduated from Yale University in 1993, where he received a bachelor of arts degree. He holds a PhD from New York State University, Buffalo.
Career
He is Associate Professor of English and Classics at California State University, Northridge in Los Angeles, California. Robert Oscar Lopez was raised by a lesbian couple. He is of Puerto Rican descent.
He received a master's degree in classics from the University of Buffalo in 2007. Lopez joined the faculty at California State University, Northridge in 2008. He has been a tenured Associate Professor of English and Classics since 2013.
In July 2013, it was announced he would self-publish "Mean Gays" fiction books. In 2012 he published the essay "Growing up with two Moms", detailing his experiences growing up as son of a lesbian couple. This resulted in an immediate backlash in blogs, with some calling it hate speech.
Lopez was accused by two former students for creating a discriminatory environment. In October 2015, the CSUN provost wrote a letter informing Lopez that he was accused of intimidating students. Meanwhile, Lopez accused another administrator of comparing an event he had organized at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to a "KKK camp."
Lopez has served as the President of the International Children's Rights Institute since 2014.
He has authored articles about his opposition to same-sex parenting. He testified against same-sex marriage in Minnesota. He wrote an amicus curiae brief for the Supreme Court in the Obergefell vs.
Hodges case about same-sex marriage.
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