Milo Yiannopoulos has revived the old trope of the nt, gay, fascist sophistite. What do this tell about our polil moment?
Contents:
- HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM
- THE PHILOSOPHIL FASCISTS OF THE GAY ALT-RIGHT
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- JOHANN HARI : THE STRANGE, STRANGE STORY OF THE GAY FASCISTS
- A GAY ISLAND MUNY CREATED BY ITALY'S FASCISTS
- QUEER FASCISM AND THE END OF GAY HISTORY
- MILO YIANNOPOULOS AND THE GAY FASCIST SOPHISTITE
HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM
The 1920s and early ‘30’s looked like the begng of the end for centuri of gay tolerance. Then me fascism and the Nazis. * gay fascism *
Partly drivg this new era of tolerance were the doctors and scientists who started lookg at homosexualy and “transvtism” (a word of that era that enpassed transgenr people) as a natural characteristic wh which some were born, and not a “rangement.
In his book The Homo and the Negro, O’Meara says that gay whe men reprent the bt of what Wtern culture has to offer bee of their “telligence” and “bety, ” and that “Negro” reprent the worst, beg pable of “achievement. Sce around 2010, some (though by no means all) groups the learship of the whe natnalist movement have been vg out cis gay men to speak at their nferenc, wre for their magaz, and be terviewed their journals.
Donovan tri to sugarat his own racist beliefs when speakg to his ma fan base, gay men who like his macho looks and straight men om the “pickup artist” culture and the manosphere who are sperately tryg to learn om him how to be manly. He’s parlayed his butch allure to a brand, earng money om a le of T-shirts and wrist guards that say thgs like BARBARIAN and a seri of books that seek to stct both straight and gay men how to bee more mascule and particular, more “vlent. ” Though Donovan tri to me the latent sexs vlence for all ’s worth, he is, fact, agast nsensual BDSM, nmng a 2010 say as part of a long list of evils that he feels has been perpetuated by gay culture: the “extreme promiscuy, sadomasochism, transvtism, transsexualy, and flamboyant effemacy” promoted by “the pk-haired, punk rock stepchildren of femism, ” gay activists.
THE PHILOSOPHIL FASCISTS OF THE GAY ALT-RIGHT
Seventy-five years ago Fascist Italy, a group of gay men were labelled "generate", expelled om their hom and terned on one of the Tremi islands. * gay fascism *
If Donovan is a riture of the gay Nazi strongman—almost a personifitn of the phrase “body fascism” (which was origally ed by gay men to crique other gay men’s obssn wh perfect gym bodi)—his unterpart, Jam O’Meara, is an embodiment of somethg that uld barely be imaged until now: Nazi mp.
Far femmier than Donovan both looks and tone, O’Meara wr alternately smirkg and playful says for Counter-Currents about men’s clothg, the closeted Cardal Spellman, the “homoromanticism” of the Boy Suts, and the polil enomy of The Gilmore Girls.
O’Meara openly lov Hler, but he also groov to the socialist Osr Wil, and, an terview wh the webze Alternative Right, admirgly quot “Bunny” Roger, the gay Brish dandy and World War II hero, as sayg: “Now that I’ve killed so many Nazis Daddy will have to buy me a sable at.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
” In a podst, O’Meara said, “The blacks get their chicks pregnant as soon as they turn 15, and have 30 different children wh 10 different women” bee of Jewish schemg: “the poison that the Jewish mentaly troduc” promot heterosexual sex and “girl-crazs” stead of the glor gayns that would domate “if the Jews hadn’t taken over Hollywood.
Polls show that over one third of French gay men supported Le Pen the recent electn spe her promise to end same-sex marriage, and Germany, the far-right AfD recently tapped an out lbian banker to n for chancellor.
Only two days after the massacre at the Pulse nightclub Orlando last year, whe-natnalist meme producer (and proud homophobe) Butch Leghorn wrote on the alt-right webse The Right Stuff, “This shootg [is] a very valuable wedge issue.
JOHANN HARI : THE STRANGE, STRANGE STORY OF THE GAY FASCISTS
” Butch and his -activists put out a plethora of mem for the ocsn wh, for example, a rabow flag and the words FUCK ISLAM, and the phras, “To be pro-Islam is to be anti-Gay … Daddy’s gonna build a wall and keep you safe. One of the many gay people who received, and began avidly sendg out, such mem was Peter Boyk, a 39-year-old, married, whe Virgian who had eight years earlier been spic of Obama bee, as he told me a phone terview, “His name is like Osama b Lan.
A GAY ISLAND MUNY CREATED BY ITALY'S FASCISTS
” Boyk, who grew up wh nservative Catholic parents who had mpaigned for Ronald Reagan, found an anizatn lled “Gays for Tmp” after he attend a party of the same name at the Republin nventn last July. ” But Boyk is profoundly worried about Mlim immigrants (who, acrdg to a recent Pew poll, are actually more likely to believe tolerance of homosexualy than evangelil Christians) wantg to hurt him: “I keep seeg vios people send me where they’re beheadg the 13-year-old boys and throwg people off of roofs. Rather than monizg men who may long for a strong brotherhood to protect them a society that is creasgly unsafe and un-nourishg for all of , we should unter-anize among them and have the searchg and mted nversatns about racism and sexism that have too often elud the gay muny.
“I am not gay bee the word gay nnot so much more than same-sex sire, ” Donovan announced, unr a psdonym, on the first page of 2006’s Androphilia: A Manifto: Rejectg the Gay Inty, Reclaimg Masculy (echog, probably untentnally, the speech Tony Khner wrote for Roy Cohn Angels Ameri). ” To say nothg of trans issu, which most gay alt-righters rejected (“I know three transgenr people our movement, ” Counter-Currents edor Greg Johnson offered, before argug agast the signatn. In Androphilia, he prais activists who fought to crimalize gay sex and to bat stutnal difference to AIDS “It would be remiss not to cred the Gay Rights Movement for fightg agast this sort of opprsn, tolerance, and tentnal negligence, ” he wr, but “havg achieved relative tolerance for same-sex-oriented people mastream culture, and havg brought an end to police harassment and wispread discrimatn, the Gay Rights Movement has turned to npickg.
In June, the Hungarian parliament voted overwhelmgly to elimate om public schools all teachg related to “homosexualy and genr change”, associatg LGBTQI rights and tn wh pedophilia and totalarian cultural polics. Although not always acrd, the groups ncur that the tradnal fay is unr attack, that children the classroom are beg doctrated to bee homosexuals, and that “genr” is a dangero, if not diabolil, iology threateng to stroy fai, lol cultur, civilizatn, and even “man” now seri labelIt is not easy to fully renstct the arguments ed by the anti-genr iology movement bee they do not hold themselv to standards of nsistency or herence.
QUEER FASCISM AND THE END OF GAY HISTORY
They believe that children are beg told to change genrs, are actively reced by gay and trans people, or prsured to clare themselv as gay tnal settgs where an open disurse about genr is ritured as a form of doctratn.
MILO YIANNOPOULOS AND THE GAY FASCIST SOPHISTITE
The third is Agenda Europe, nsistg of more than 100 anizatns, which sts gay marriage, trans rights, reproductive eedom, and LGBTQI anti-discrimatn efforts as asslts on movements are not jt reactnary but fascist trends, the kd that support creasgly thorarian ernments. It has been said by historian Louis Snyr that Röhm "projected a social orr which homosexualy would be regard as a human behavur pattern of high repute… He flnted his homosexualy public and sisted his croni do the same. Ray Hill, who filtrated the Brish fascist movement for twelve years to gather rmatn for anti-fascist groups, said homosexualy is “extremely prevalent” the Brish far right, and "at one stage the 1980s nearly half of the movement’s anisers were gay".