Conservative political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos recently expressed regret for “mainstreaming homosexuality in the Republican Party” a decade ago, and claimed hidden homosexuality is rampant in conservative political circles.
Yiannopoulos, who reached the peak of his fame around the 2016 presidential campaign as a provocative, outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, also claimed that therapy and his Christian faith have helped him move away from the homosexual addiction that once consumed his life.
“I have to be honest with you, I bear some responsibility for this because it was me, 10 years ago — mainstreaming homosexuality in the Republican Party is the great regret of my life, more so than anything I’ve done to my own soul, which is a lot,” Yiannopoulos said during an hours-long episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show” that aired Wednesday.
“It’s the great regret of my life, because it has given rise to horrors I never imagined. I mean, Lenin said, ‘All revolutionaries come to hate their children.’ Well, the gay horrors that I’ve given birth to — [pro-Trump drag queen] Lady MAGA, Nick Fuentes — I mean, they keep me up at night.”
Yiannopoulos, who said he has been celibate for five years after coming to realize that the homosexual lifestyle was destroying him, repudiated the prevailing cultural consensus that homosexuality is innate.
“Nobody’s gay,” said Yiannopoulos, who characterized the behavior instead as a symptom of trauma. He claimed the idea that such behavior is a fixed identity “was invented wholesale” by gay activists who were “wanting to be out and proud and to wear their sins on their sleeves” while silencing those who claim it involves a sinful choice.
“In almost every case, and in certainly in every male case, it is a trauma response,” he said. “It is not a sexuality. It is not part of what you are, or who you are, or a component of your personality … it is a set of behaviors that emerges in people with a number of very easily identifiable common etiologies.”
Yiannopoulos went on to recount deciding he was gay at age 14 amid family trauma, detailing how he was alienated from his biological father, whom he described as “a bad guy” involved in organized crime, and that his stepfather did not respect his privacy. He also said he engaged in “sexual interactions with a Roman Catholic priest” when he was a young teenager.
Yiannopoulos, who was banned from Twitter before Elon Musk took it over, largely retreated from public life in 2017 after stoking backlash for comments he made during a 2016 podcast that discussed sexual relationships between “younger boys” and older men, which detractors claimed were defending pedophilia. Yiannopoulos denied such accusations at the time, noting that he was the victim of sexual abuse himself when he was young.
Speaking with Carlson, Yiannopoulos also discerned a demonic element to homosexuality and what he described as its addictive nature. He said he came to realize that his sexual compulsions were enslaving his mind and driving his behavior in the same way other addictions had.
“Sounds like a demon,” Carlson said, to which Yiannopoulos replied, “Yeah, because that’s what it is.”
Yiannopoulos also claimed conservative political circles with ties to Washington, D.C., are rife with closeted homosexuality, which he attributed to a lust for power that mirrors occultism. He claimed the desire to control others is especially tempting to homosexuals who feel powerless over core parts of themselves.
“The worst and most sinister bit of magic is that you can trick someone or compel someone against their will to fall in love with you, or to throw themselves off a cliff,” he said. “The most frightening thing about magic is its ability to compel the wills of others.”
“And that’s what I think homosexuals are seeking … because they feel so powerless in their own lives and have this understanding that they are broken people without agency over their own sex lives, over their bodies. … Like, I don’t even have control over me, but I’m damn well going to have control over you. That’s, I think, a lot of it.”
Yiannopoulos, a Roman Catholic, said he has pursued prayer and undergone therapy to help him deal with the trauma that led him to seek escape in homosexual promiscuity and other self-destructive behavior. He noted he continues to feel regret when he looks back on the potential impact he had on making young conservatives think homosexuality is acceptable.
“I feel ashamed,” he said, adding he feels many failed to understand during the height of his influence years ago that he was unhappy in the homosexual lifestyle and not trying to encourage it.
“I was not intending to give birth to this huge generation of gay Republicans who now think it’s openly fine to traffic in babies and to be a gay Republican, and I feel a great deal of responsibility for that. I hate myself for that a little bit,” he said.
Yiannopoulos remembered how, during his first television appearance in 2012, musician Boy George mocked him during a debate about gay marriage when he admitted that “something inside of me tells me that being a homosexual is probably wrong.”
Yiannopoulos pushed back against the scorn he received from those who dismissed him at the time as “a self-loathing homosexual.”
“I wasn’t hating myself; I was hating the things that I was doing, because I knew they were hurting me,” he said.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com
