Milo Yiannopoulos holds forth on the origins of homosexuality 

Are we becoming “faggotized?” According to Milo Yiannopoulos “everything has gone gay” – food, music, fashion, showbiz and – significantly – politics. On a new installment of The Tucker Carlson Show the former Breitbart journalist and Kanye West consigliere set out his general theory of male homosexuality. 

Male gayness is not something you were born with, argued Milo, but is instead a “set of behaviors” caused by something misfiring about a man’s relationship with masculinity at an early age. For this devouring mothers or “nebbish fathers” are usually to blame; indeed, much of the rest of a male gay’s life can be seen as an elaborate attempt to get revenge on the parental figure who failed them. He claimed that most gay men hate women because they hated their overbearing mothers, leading to, inter alia, the state of the fashion industry and “the intolerable ugliness of the catwalk.” 

The ideology of neoconservatism is another epiphenomenon of this, Milo argued – hinting that for several prominent politicians foreign adventurism is a way to compensate for the powerlessness they felt at an early age. Figures such as former VP Mike Pence were at the very least “spiritually gay.” Who knows – but there certainly is an odd overrepresentation of gay men on the American right which no one has quite yet accounted for.  

Milo relayed all this in his usual raffish way. His eyes were permanently squinted throughout, giving him the air of a wizened sage. He now claims to be living celibate as part of a years-long effort to overcome homosexuality. Over a T-shirt patterned with pictures of his face was a gold crucifix necklace. 

Unsurprisingly for The Tucker Carlson Show the supernatural soon entered into things. Milo described being so overcome with desire after being sat next to a football player on a flight that he had to make for the bathroom for some quick onanism. “Sounds like a demon,” observed Tucker. Milo agreed, quickly christening it “Gorgoroth the Semen Demon.”

Tucker certainly seemed to think he was speaking to a sort of Mephistopheles. “There’s no question in my mind you’re telling the truth,” he would often say, warily. At one point he furrowed his brow, “if you want to weaken a society to the point of collapse–” he began, “Faggotize it” finished Milo.