Milo Yiannopoulos rurrected a dangero old myth about gay men and pedophilia - Vox

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• MILO YIANNOPOULOS SAYS HE IS ‘EX-GAY,’ WANTS TO REHABILATE ‘NVERSN THERAPY’
• MILO YIANNOPOULOS CLAR HIMSELF EX-GAY AND SAYS HE’S ‘MOTED’ HBAND TO HOEMATE BIZARRE NEW TERVIEW
• MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE HIR MILO YIANNOPOULOS — A 37-YEAR-OLD 'EX-GAY' FORMER BREBART EDOR ONCE DISVED OM CPAC FOR 'NDONG PEDOPHILIA' — AS AN TERN
• ACTIVIST MILO YIANNOPOULOS IS NOW ‘EX-GAY,’ NSECRATG HIS LIFE TO ST. JOSEPH
• GAY JOURNALIST LEAV THE LEFT BEHD AND EMBRAC A 'BRAND NEW CONSERVATIVE'
• MILO YIANNOPOULOS RURRECTED A DANGERO OLD MYTH ABOUT GAY MEN AND PEDOPHILIA
• ‘GAY’ NSERVATIV: YOU N LEARN OM MILO’S TELLECTUAL HONTY AND TEGRY
• THE MILO YIANNOPOULOS TOUR ROLLS CONSERVATIVE SPEAKER'S EVENT DELAYED AT UCLA AFTER PROTTERS BLOCK ENTRANCE
• MILO MAY NOT BE GOG TO CPAC, BUT GAY CONSERVATIV WON'T FET THE INVE

MILO YIANNOPOULOS SAYS HE IS ‘EX-GAY,’ WANTS TO REHABILATE ‘NVERSN THERAPY’

Right-wg provotr Milo Yiannopoulos has e out as “ex-gay” – announcg that he “would like to help rehabilate what the media lls “nversn therapy” over the next , acrdg to a report. The 36-year-old Brish polil mentator, whose speech and wrgs often ridicule polil rrectns, social jtice and femism, clared himself no longer gay and “sodomy ee, ” he told LifeSe an terview. “When I ed to kid that I only beme gay to torment my mother, I wasn’t entirely jokg, ” he said.

“Of urse, I was never wholly at home the gay liftyle — Who is? — and only leaned heavily to public bee drove liberals crazy to see a handsome, charismatic, telligent gay man rtoly celebratg nservative prcipl, ” Yiannopoulos ntued. “As for the CHANGED movement, I gus bee they’re Californian they don’t see how funny their webse is, or maybe they’re dirty non-doms who thk God lov you more the gayer you act, but I was slightly makg fun of them wh that ptn, ” he said.

MILO YIANNOPOULOS CLAR HIMSELF EX-GAY AND SAYS HE’S ‘MOTED’ HBAND TO HOEMATE BIZARRE NEW TERVIEW

Sign up for the daily Insi Washgton email for exclive US verage and analysis sent to your boxGet our ee Insi Washgton emailFar-right mentator Milo Yiannopoulos has given an terview which he claims to be “ex-gay” and has chosen to “mote” his hband to a “hoemate” 36-year-old, who is known for givg ntroversial mentary, allegedly told LifeSe — a right-wg Christian news outlet — of the chang to his sexualy and maral stat an terview published Yiannopoulos claimed to have only “leaned-” to beg gay the past bee an outspoken and “handsome” nservative would “drive liberals crazy”.

“When I ed to kid that I only beme gay to torment my mother, I wasn’t entirely jokg, ” said Mr Yiannopoulos, who scribed the sexualy as a “liftyle”. “[I] only leaned heavily to public bee drove liberals crazy to see a handsome, charismatic, telligent gay man rtoly celebratg nservative prcipl, ” said Mr more: Facebook clus ‘alt-right’ webse Brebart ‘high qualy’ news sectn spe repeated ntroversiThe far-right mentator add that he was focg on supportg “nversn therapy”, the psdo practice that is wily banned outsi the Uned Stat and outlawed relatn to mors only 20 stat. Although he allegedly hted his book, “Dangero”, that might be “g out” as straight the future, Mr Yiannopoulos’s terview wh LifeSe marked the first time the far-right mentator had claimed he was “ex-gay” an terview that marks such a U-turn for the firebrand uld almost be read as revelatns were wily rid by Twter ers on Wednday, and left many the LGBT+ muny jokgly celebratg Mr Yiannopoulos’s so-lled straightns.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE HIR MILO YIANNOPOULOS — A 37-YEAR-OLD 'EX-GAY' FORMER BREBART EDOR ONCE DISVED OM CPAC FOR 'NDONG PEDOPHILIA' — AS AN TERN

Gee Takei, who played Sulu the Star Trek anchise, wrote: “Far-right provotr Milo Yiannopoulos now claims to be ex-gay’ and, as a gay man, I for one am ex-halg a sigh of relief.

ACTIVIST MILO YIANNOPOULOS IS NOW ‘EX-GAY,’ NSECRATG HIS LIFE TO ST. JOSEPH

Marjorie Taylor Greene has hired "ex-gay" alt-right provotr Milo Yiannopoulos as an tern.

GAY JOURNALIST LEAV THE LEFT BEHD AND EMBRAC A 'BRAND NEW CONSERVATIVE'

"So I have an tern that was raped by a prit as a young teen, was gay, has offend everyone at some pot, turned his life back to J and Church, and changed his life, " she said.

MILO YIANNOPOULOS RURRECTED A DANGERO OLD MYTH ABOUT GAY MEN AND PEDOPHILIA

"I thk particularly the gay world, and outsi the Catholic Church — if that's where some of you want to go wh this — I thk the gay world some of the most important, enrichg and credibly life-affirmg, important shapg relatnships very often between younger boys and olr men, " he said a 2016 podst.

Yiannopoulos, who intified at the time as gay, now lls himself "ex-gay" and claimed last year to be buildg a nversn therapy clic Florida.

“In the homosexual world, particularly, some of those relatnships between younger boys and olr men — the sort of ‘g of age’ relatnships — the relatnships which those olr men help those young boys to disver who they are and give them secury and safety and provi them wh love and a reliable sort of rock, ” Yiannopoulos said. He claimed he “went gay” so he “didn’t have to al wh nutty broads. He repeatedly argued on Real Time Wh Bill Maher last week that trans people are “disorred, ” and even suggted that gay people might be as well.

‘GAY’ NSERVATIV: YOU N LEARN OM MILO’S TELLECTUAL HONTY AND TEGRY

(Major medil groups, like the Amerin Medil Associatn and Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, say beg transgenr or gay is not a mental disorr.

But the remarks also may have crossed the le bee they played to longstandg nservative fears about gay men — specifilly, the myth that there’s a lk between homosexualy and pedophilia.

THE MILO YIANNOPOULOS TOUR ROLLS CONSERVATIVE SPEAKER'S EVENT DELAYED AT UCLA AFTER PROTTERS BLOCK ENTRANCE

And was ed the past to monize gay men and block the advancement of gay rights — such as, retired UC Davis profsor Gregory Herek explaed, “ 1977, when Ana Bryant mpaigned succsfully to repeal a Da County (FL) ordance prohibg anti-gay discrimatn, she named her anizatn ‘Save Our Children, ’ and warned that ‘a particularly viant-md [gay] teacher uld sexually molt children.

In this ntext, Yiannopoulos’s support of child moltatn as a gay man played to preexistg nservative fears about homosexualy, makg him a particularly alarmg figure.

22, Szen/European Prsphoto AgencyTo be clear on what jt happened the strange rnival that still lls self Amerin nservatism: First, the Conservative Polil Actn Conference ved, as one of s headlg speakers, the right-wg provotr Milo Yiannopoulos, a gay cross-drsg Catholic part-Jewish Br who lik to boast about his sexual appete, favors “ironic” racial and misogynist humor, and not ocsnally scrib the print of the Uned Stat as “Daddy. Some of is more class- and ethnicy-based: redneck plorabl givg the fger to the prissy upper class; olr wh uneasy over multiculturalism and nostalgic for a more homogeneo Ameri; middle-Amerin radils to whom the moral of liberalism seems built for a socenomic orr that don’t give a fig about their rebels do not necsarily have all that much mon wh one another, let alone wh the remars of the relig right. (Consir France’s Natnal Front, which draws support om Catholic tradnalists, ex-Communist workgmen and secular — and gay — voters who fear Islam’s encroachments.

MILO MAY NOT BE GOG TO CPAC, BUT GAY CONSERVATIV WON'T FET THE INVE

The social nservativ are stra-laced, and he’s promiscuo (he says); the male anti-femists are sistently straight, and he’s flamboyantly gay; the workg-class whe heartlanrs are, well, workg-class heartlanrs, and he’s a Brish-accented his outsir stat is a sellg pot, not a liabily. Even as lets him turn the left’s inty polics agast self, also enabl him to flatter each nservative nstuency a somewhat different way, to give each a piece of vditn and play to each wh a piece of his he lets relig nservativ feel, on the one hand, like they’re acceptg the reali of the culture war — ’s over, we lost, we need to make alli of gay people stead of spegoats — while simultaneoly suggtg, through his performative promiscuy, his Victorian-nt relatnship wh Catholicism, that they were actually right about homosexualy all along. (As the wrer Walter Olson of the Cato Instute poted out recently, a stair sort of gay nservative might actually have ls appeal.