Unrstandg Homonatnalism: Why Are There Gay People Supportg Tmp? | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• WHE NATNALIST GROUPS ARE SPLTG OVER GAY INCLN
• HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM
• A WHE GAY MALE FACTN OF WHE NATNALISM IS RISG AND NO, THAT’S NOT A JOKE
• UNRSTANDG HOMONATNALISM: WHY ARE THERE GAY PEOPLE SUPPORTG TMP?
• WHE NATNALIST WH GAY FATHER BOOTED FROM HOME OVER ATTEMPTED PRI RT

WHE NATNALIST GROUPS ARE SPLTG OVER GAY INCLN

A week ago, members of another whe supremacist group, Patrt Front, were arrted before, thori allege, vlently disptg a gay pri event Cor d'Alene, Idaho. And the other one we need to put on that list is seemgly dividual acts of vlence that rult mass sualti agast targeted populatns, like the one we jt saw Buffalo, but that we've also seen El Paso and Charlton and groups see gay rights, immigratn, terracial ntact, and pecially the birth of terracial children, femism as all beg a problem bee they believe that those thgs will unrme the whe birthrate.

But if you say, I don't want my kids - I'm worried about my kids beg around gay people or around drag performers, there's this whole kd of movement that allows that type of nversatn to happen or feels like this kd of nversatn is OK to happen. And this kd of opportunistic mobilizatn is very well-practiced and is somethg that they have been workg wh for a very long So seems like there's a reason that they are choosg to foc on, say, drag queens or trans people over, say, you know, jt a proment gay person like Neil Patrick Harris - or they are choosg to kd of foc on this very margalized Y.

HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM

One major flt le has emerged over homosexualy: While fascist and whe natnalist movements have historilly nmned queerns, many the self-scribed “alt-right” wanted to dash this image, acknowledgg that the social mood had shifted on gay issu and that they had a number of homosexual members their ranks. Over the summer months, as whe natnalists and fascists who rallied unr the banner of the “alt-right” were repudiated by their more mastream unterparts at plac like Rebel Media, a fal pture began to take place between those who cid to clu gay fascists their ranks and lears who termed this to be the hill they wanted to die on. It wasn’t until Hill saw the rt of the Natnal Policy Instute nference lp that his characteristic rage kicked , censed by the cln of another speaker: Jack Donovan, a “masculist” and an open homosexual.

A WHE GAY MALE FACTN OF WHE NATNALISM IS RISG AND NO, THAT’S NOT A JOKE

Both are te the se of attus toward homosexualy wh the aln between the openly whe natnalist “alt-right” and the “alt-le, ” which tends to publicly downplay s support for whe supremacy per se while spreadg anti-immigrant, anti-Mlim and anti-femist sentiments.

While self-scribed members of the “alt-right” have certaly never put same-sex relatnships on the same ground as heterosexual on — primarily bee of their belief the sancty of the “tradnal” fay un — they haven’t treated gay people entirely as outsirs eher. Spencer has often argued for a place for homosexual men their movement, prentg a radil versn of the “born this way” this that follows antiquated Soviet rearch suggtg that homosexualy is the rult of a ficient prenatal “ttosterone bath.

UNRSTANDG HOMONATNALISM: WHY ARE THERE GAY PEOPLE SUPPORTG TMP?

Donovan was first known for wrg the book Androphilia (unr the name Jack Malebranche), where he argued that as a man attracted to other men, he was not actually “gay, ” as that was a morn chosen inty that also aligned self wh “male effemacy, ” femism and leftist polics. Donovan has argued publicly agast gay stutns like same-sex marriage, stead suggtg that male-attracted men should “go their own way, ” and fai should be limed to the tradnal heterosexual ntext.

WHE NATNALIST WH GAY FATHER BOOTED FROM HOME OVER ATTEMPTED PRI RT

Meanwhile he lifts up whe homosexual masculy — which he portrays as associated wh theatre and high arts — as the ialized oppose of the anti-Black stereotyp that he prents. Milo Yiannopoulos and Gays for Tmp add another dimensn to this, seekg to jtify anti-Mlim immigratn rtrictn by potg to the mass shootg at the Pulse nightclub and argug that Mlim groups persecute gay people.