Milo Yiannopoulos#Remarks on paedophilia and child sexual abuse
{{Short description|British polemicist and political commentator (born 1984)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Milo Yiannopoulos
| image = Milo Yiannopoulos 2016.jpg
| caption = Yiannopoulos in 2016
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1984|10|18}}
| birth_place = Chatham, Kent, England
| other_names = Milo Andreas Wagner (occasional pen name)
| occupation = {{hlist|Writer|activist}}
| years_active = 2007–present
| movement = {{hlist|Far-right|alt-right{{refn|{{cite news |title=Milo Yiannopoulos: Who is the alt-right writer and provocateur? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39026870 |date=21 February 2017 |access-date=21 June 2018 |archive-date=22 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922001526/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39026870 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |first1=Doug |last1=Stanglin |access-date=3 November 2019 |title=Australia bans tour by alt-right star Milo Yiannopoulos over New Zealand massacre remarks |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/03/16/milo-yiannopoulos-australia-bans-tour-wake-new-zealand-massacre/3184724002/ |date=16 March 2019 |website=USA Today |archive-date=3 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103084328/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/03/16/milo-yiannopoulos-australia-bans-tour-wake-new-zealand-massacre/3184724002/ |url-status=live}}}}|alt-lite}}
| signature = File:Milo signature.svg
}}
Milo Yiannopoulos ({{IPAc-en|j|ə|ˈ|n|ɒ|p|əl|ə|s}};1 February 2017 {{YouTube|Y-sX5JLwidE|channel=|"MILO Addresses The UC Berkeley Riots"}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20170202083946/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-sX5JLwidE Archived] on 2 February 2017. video taken from Yiannopoulos' official YouTube channel. né Hanrahan; born 18 October 1984){{cite news |title=#GamerGate Journalist Milo Yiannopoulos's Self-Published Poetry Book Contains Unattributed Tori Amos Lyrics |last=Rouner |first=Jef |date=16 January 2015 |work=Houston Press |url=http://www.houstonpress.com/music/gamergate-journalist-milo-yiannopouloss-self-published-poetry-book-contains-unattributed-tori-amos-lyrics-6497169 |access-date=22 July 2016 |archive-date=20 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720215413/http://www.houstonpress.com/music/gamergate-journalist-milo-yiannopouloss-self-published-poetry-book-contains-unattributed-tori-amos-lyrics-6497169 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Alexander |first1=Nick |date=3 February 2017 |title=Alt-right target of Berkeley riots a troll with formidable connections |url=https://www.9news.com.au/world/alt-right-agitator-milo-yiannopoulos-the-berkeley-riots-and-donald-trump/80b315c9-b7e5-4beb-bb3f-1e0d302d0891 |access-date=2023-04-18 |website=9News}} is a British far-right political commentator. His speeches and writings criticise Islam, feminism, and social justice.{{cite news |last=Arthur |first=Charles |title=The Kernel sued by former contributors for non-payment |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/sep/12/the-kernel-sued-former-contributors |access-date=12 September 2012 |work=The Guardian |date=12 September 2012 |archive-date=31 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331083415/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/sep/12/the-kernel-sued-former-contributors |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Beauchamp |first1=Zack |date=20 February 2017 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos: Breitbart's star provocateur and Trump champion, explained |website=Vox |url=https://www.vox.com/2016/4/4/11355876/milo-yiannopoulos |url-status=live |access-date=24 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025075403/https://www.vox.com/2016/4/4/11355876/milo-yiannopoulos |archive-date=25 October 2017 |quote=Once you understand that Yiannopoulos thinks norms against offensive speech and action are themselves a terrible form of authoritarianism, then the rest of his persona starts to make a lot more sense. He sees himself as a hybrid journalist-activist, leading a movement he calls "cultural libertarianism" to protect "free speech" from the egalitarian bullies.}}{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-reminder-internet-atheists-fucking-suck/ |title=A Reminder: Internet Atheists Fucking Suck |last=Kesvani |first=Hussein |date=14 June 2017 |work=Vice |access-date=8 May 2018 |archive-date=9 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509013103/https://www.vice.com/en_nz/article/a3z4mk/a-reminder-internet-atheists-fucking-suck |url-status=live}} Yiannopoulos is a former editor of Breitbart News, an American far-right news and opinion website.
Yiannopoulos worked for Breitbart from 2014 to 2017. During this time, he rose to prominence as a significant voice in the Gamergate controversy. In July 2016, he was banned from Twitter for online harassment of actress Leslie Jones.{{cite news |last1=Grynbaum |first1=Michael |last2=Herrman |first2=John |title=Breitbart Rises From Outlier to Potent Voice in Campaign |date=27 August 2016 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/business/media/breitbart-news-presidential-race.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=7 January 2018 |quote=Last month, Milo Yiannopoulos, the site's tech editor, was banned from Twitter after inspiring a sustained online harassment campaign against the Saturday Night Live actor Leslie Jones. |archive-date=27 August 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160827183157/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/business/media/breitbart-news-presidential-race.html?_r=0 |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}{{cite news |date=20 July 2016 |title=Leslie Jones leaves Twitter amidst onslaught of racist tweets |publisher=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/video/leslie-jones-leaves-twitter-amidst-onslaught-of-racist-tweets/ |url-status=live |access-date=28 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728221531/https://www.cbsnews.com/video/leslie-jones-leaves-twitter-amidst-onslaught-of-racist-tweets/ |archive-date=28 July 2018}} He was permanently banned from Facebook in 2019.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/02/facebook-ban-alex-jones-milo-yiannopoulos |title=Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos and other far-right figures |work=The Guardian |date=2 May 2019 |access-date=17 June 2019 |archive-date=18 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618092221/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/02/facebook-ban-alex-jones-milo-yiannopoulos |url-status=live}} According to emails by Yiannopoulos leaked by BuzzFeed News in late 2017, Yiannopoulos solicited white nationalists, such as American Renaissance editor Devin Saucier, for story ideas and editing suggestions during his tenure at Breitbart.
Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.{{cite news |last1=Carbonaro |first1=Giuila |title=MTG Role Puts Milo Yiannopoulos' Pedophilia Remarks Back in Spotlight |url=https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-green-milo-yiannopoulos-pedophilia-remarks-1713391 |date=7 June 2022 |work=Newsweek |access-date=12 September 2022}}{{cite news |last1=O'Hara |first1=Mary Emily |title=Yiannopoulos Quits Breitbart, Apologizes for Uproar Over Year-Old Comments |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/yiannopoulos-quits-breitbart-apologizes-uproar-over-year-old-comments-n723861 |date=21 February 2017 |publisher=NBC News |access-date=7 March 2017 |quote=And I think particularly in the gay world, and outside the Catholic Church – if that's where some of you want to go with this – I think in the gay world some of the most important, enriching and incredibly life-affirming, important shaping relationships very often between younger boys and older men ... They can be hugely positive experiences. |archive-date=7 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307205319/http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/yiannopoulos-quits-breitbart-apologizes-uproar-over-year-old-comments-n723861 |url-status=live}} Following the release of the video clips, Yiannopoulos resigned his position at Breitbart,{{Cite news |last=Hersher |first=Rebecca |date=21 February 2017 |title=After Comments On Pedophilia, Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns |language=en |publisher=NPR |type=Audio |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/21/516473521/after-comments-on-pedophilia-breitbart-editor-milo-yiannopoulos-resigns |access-date=26 August 2022}} his invitation to speak before the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was rescinded, and a contract to publish his autobiography with Simon & Schuster was cancelled. Yiannopoulos has said that he is not a supporter of paedophilic relationships and that his statements reflected his own victimhood as an object of child sexual abuse by a priest.
In 2022, Yiannopoulos served as an intern for United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene,{{Cite news |last1=Pietsch |first1=Bryan |last2=Wagner |first2=John |date=7 June 2022 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos, far-right provocateur, is a Marjorie Taylor Greene intern |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/07/milo-yiannopoulos-intern-marjorie-taylor-greene/ |access-date=8 June 2022 |issn=0190-8286 |url-access=limited}} then worked with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West on the latter's short-lived 2024 U.S. presidential election campaign.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63754702.amp |title=Kanye West announces 2024 presidential bid |last=Savage |first=Mark |date=25 November 2022 |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 November 2022 |quote=Rapper Kanye West has said he intends to run for US president in 2024, despite facing several scandals over his recent behaviour.}} In April 2024, Yiannopoulos was listed as Chief of Staff at Yeezy Apparel, but stepped down on 15 May due to West's announcement of an adult entertainment division at the company.{{Cite news |date=2024-04-18 |title=Kanye West: Los Angeles police investigating whether rapper was involved in alleged battery |url=https://news.sky.com/story/kanye-west-los-angeles-police-investigating-whether-rapper-was-involved-in-alleged-battery-13118134 |access-date=2024-04-19 |work=Sky News}}{{Cite news |last=Baio |first=Ariana |date=2024-05-15 |title=Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos steps down as Yeezy's chief of staff |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yiannopoulos-yeezy-kayne-west-election-step-down-b2545573.html |access-date=2024-06-07 |work=The Independent |language=en}}
Early and personal life
Born as Milo Hanrahan, Yiannopoulos was born and raised in Chatham, Kent, England.{{cite web |last1=Ball |first1=James |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Is the Walking Embodiment of Bulls**t |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/milo-yiannopoulos-is-the-walking-embodiment-of-bullst |website=The Daily Beast |access-date=1 January 2024 |date=3 December 2017 |url-access=limited}} His father is of half-Greek and half-Irish ancestry and his mother is Jewish, of German descent.{{cite web |last1=Arfa |first1=Orit |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Talks About His Jewish Identity, Trump and Zionism in Berlin |url=https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/analysis/301037/milo-yiannopoulos-talks-about-his-jewish-identity-trump-and-zionism-in-berlin/ |website=Jewish Journal |date=3 July 2019 |access-date=2 December 2022}} He is described as a practising Roman Catholic. His parents divorced when he was a child.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-rise-and-fall-shallow-actor-bad-guy-hate-speech |title=The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos – how a shallow actor played the bad guy for money |first=Dorian |last=Lynskey |work=The Guardian |date=21 February 2017 |access-date=29 August 2017 |quote=Yiannopoulos was born Milo Hanrahan in Kent in 1984... |archive-date=18 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818140529/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-rise-and-fall-shallow-actor-bad-guy-hate-speech |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Stein |first1=Joel |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Is the Pretty, Monstrous Face of the Alt-Right |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-america-divided/milo-yiannopoulos |access-date=16 September 2016 |website=Bloomberg.com |date=15 September 2016 |archive-date=16 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916044603/https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-america-divided/milo-yiannopoulos/ |url-status=live}} Raised by his mother and her second husband, Yiannopoulos has stated that he did not have a good relationship with his stepfather. As a teenager, Yiannopoulos lived with his paternal grandmother whose surname, Yiannopoulos, he later adopted.Family and religion:
- {{cite news |title=Milo Yiannopoulos: Who is the alt-right writer and provocateur? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39026870 |date=21 February 2017 |access-date=21 June 2018 |archive-date=22 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922001526/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39026870 |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |last1=Machell |first1=Ben |title=Milo Yiannopoulos: the British poster boy for America's far right |url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/article/milo-yiannopoulos-the-british-poster-boy-of-americas-far-right-d3n20zvk6 |access-date=29 July 2018 |work=The Times |date=3 December 2016 |archive-date=29 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729112028/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/milo-yiannopoulos-the-british-poster-boy-of-americas-far-right-d3n20zvk6 |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-america-divided/milo-yiannopoulos |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Represents a New Force in Electoral Politics |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |access-date=16 September 2016 |archive-date=16 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916184056/https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-america-divided/milo-yiannopoulos/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/last-vestige-of-a-scoundrel-broke-milo-yiannopoulos-releases-gospel-song/ |title=Last Vestige of a Scoundrel: 'Broke' Milo Yiannopoulos Releases Gospel Song |last=Seleh |first=Pardes |date=28 January 2019 |website=Mediaite |access-date=15 February 2019 |archive-date=16 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216035205/https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/last-vestige-of-a-scoundrel-broke-milo-yiannopoulos-releases-gospel-song/ |url-status=live}}
Yiannopoulos was educated at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury from which he has said he was expelled. He attended the University of Manchester but dropped out before graduating; he then read English at Wolfson College, Cambridge, but was expelled in 2010.Education:
- {{cite news |title=Milo Yiannopoulos invited to talk in Canterbury at his old school |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-38006442 |access-date=20 May 2017 |work=BBC News |date=16 November 2016 |archive-date=9 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109065919/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-38006442 |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=http://tab.co.uk/2015/02/13/dropped-manchester-cambridge-honestly-fine |title=I dropped out of Manchester and Cambridge but it's honestly fine |first=Milo |last=Yiannopoulos |work=The Tab |date=13 February 2015 |access-date=4 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705202917/http://tab.co.uk/2015/02/13/dropped-manchester-cambridge-honestly-fine/ |archive-date=5 July 2015 |url-status=dead |quote=Wolfson ... threw me out after repeated warnings for the ridiculously trivial reason that I didn't show up to supervisions, didn't submit any essays and spent most of my time shagging and drinking instead of reading medieval literature.}}
In 2017, Yiannopoulos was a U.S. resident alien on O-1 visa status.{{Cite web |last=Oppenheim |first=Maya |date=26 February 2017 |title=People are calling for Milo Yiannopoulos to be deported |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yiannopoulos-deport-milo-twitter-new-sponsor-peadophilia-podcast-altright-a7600641.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220514/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yiannopoulos-deport-milo-twitter-new-sponsor-peadophilia-podcast-altright-a7600641.html |archive-date=14 May 2022 |url-access=registration |url-status=live |access-date=10 March 2021 |work=The Independent |language=en}} He married his long term boyfriend{{Cite web |last=Porter |first=Tom |date=2 October 2017 |title=Milo Yiannopolous, the alt-right leader who slammed gay rights, married his secret boyfriend in Hawaii |url=https://www.newsweek.com/gay-rights-opponent-and-alt-right-troll-milo-marries-boyfriend-hawaii-675302 |access-date=10 March 2021 |work=Newsweek |language=en}} in Hawaii in September 2017. In March 2021, during an interview with right wing publication LifeSiteNews, Yiannopoulos stated he was no longer homosexual and that his husband had been "demoted to housemate".{{Cite web |last=Spocchia |first=Gino |date=2021-03-10 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos declares himself ex-gay and says he's 'demoted' husband to housemate in bizarre new interview |url=https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/milo-yiannopoulos-ex-gay-b1815296.html |access-date= |website=The Independent |language=en}}
Career
After he dropped out of university, Yiannopoulos initially secured a job at The Catholic Herald. In 2009, Yiannopoulos moved to technology journalism with The Daily Telegraph.{{cite news |url=http://fusion.net/story/220646/the-terrifying-allure-of-gamergate-icon-milo-yiannopoulos/ |title=The ultimate troll: The terrifying allure of Gamergate icon Milo Yiannopoulos |first=Kristen |last=Brown |date=27 October 2015 |access-date=6 November 2015 |publisher=Fusion |archive-date=4 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104124703/http://fusion.net/story/220646/the-terrifying-allure-of-gamergate-icon-milo-yiannopoulos/ |url-status=live}} His Telegraph columnist biography described him in 2009 as one who "writes sceptically about Web 2.0 and social media but enthusiastically about the internet in general."{{Cite web |year=2009 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos |url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/author/miloyiannopoulos/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703071400/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/author/miloyiannopoulos/ |archive-date=3 July 2009 |access-date=16 February 2021 |website=The Daily Telegraph}}{{undue weight inline|date=February 2021}}
In June 2022, Yiannopoulos became an unpaid intern for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.{{Cite web |last=Weinberg |first=Abigail |date=6 June 2022 |title=Supposed anti-pedophilia lawmaker hires person famously outcast for minimizing child sex abuse |url=https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/06/marjorie-taylor-greene-milo-yiannopoulos-pedophilia/ |access-date=7 June 2022 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US}}
= ''The Kernel'' =
In November 2011, Yiannopoulos co-founded The Kernel.{{cite news |last=Yiannopoulos |first=Milo |title=It's time to fix European technology journalism |url=http://www.kernelmag.com/editors-blog/145/its-time-to-fix-european-technology-journalism |access-date=12 September 2012 |work=The Kernel |date=10 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715095348/http://www.kernelmag.com/editors-blog/145/its-time-to-fix-european-technology-journalism |archive-date=15 July 2012}} In March 2013, The Kernel was shut down amidst allegations of unpaid wages, at a time when Yiannopoulos was editor in chief and sole director of its parent company, Sentinel Media. It was reopened later that year under Kernel Media, with Yiannopoulos remaining as editor in chief and having privately settled the previous debts.
In 2014, The Kernel was acquired by Daily Dot Media, the parent company of The Daily Dot. After the acquisition by Daily Dot Media, Yiannopoulos stepped down as editor in chief, although he remained an adviser to the company.{{cite news |first=Oscar |last=Williams-Grut |title=The Kernel's back to make new enemies |work=The Independent |date=2 June 2013 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-kernels-back-to-make-new-enemies-8640597.html |access-date=5 September 2017 |archive-date=30 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830104909/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-kernels-back-to-make-new-enemies-8640597.html |url-status=live}}{{cite web |first=Robin |last=Wauters |url=http://tech.eu/features/375/the-kernel-daily-dot-media-acquisition |title=The Kernel acquired by The Daily Dot Media; founder moves on |work=Tech.eu |date=29 January 2014 |access-date=25 April 2015 |archive-date=9 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509054634/http://tech.eu/features/375/the-kernel-daily-dot-media-acquisition/ |url-status=live}}
= ''Breitbart News'' =
File:Milo Yiannopoulos @NEXTConf 2014 (13925731458).jpg in 2014]]
In 2014, Yiannopoulos started writing for Breitbart News,{{cite magazine |first=Joel |last=Stein |date=19 September 2016 |title=The pretty, monstrous face of the alt-right, Milo Yiannopoulos represents a new force in electoral politics |magazine=Bloomberg Businessweek |issue=4491}} and in October 2015, Breitbart placed Yiannopoulos in charge of its new "Breitbart Tech" section. The site had six full-time staff, including esports specialist Richard Lewis, and was edited by Yiannopoulos until his resignation on 21 February 2017.Breitbart News Network:
- {{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/28/media/breitbart-tech-gamergate/ |title=Breitbart brings its conservative take to tech journalism |publisher=CNN |date=28 October 2015 |access-date=7 November 2015 |archive-date=29 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151029103010/http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/28/media/breitbart-tech-gamergate/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |title=Milo Yiannopoulos resigns as editor of Breitbart Tech |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-as-editor-of-breitbart-tech-2017-2 |access-date=2 March 2017 |work=Business Insider |agency=Associated Press |date=21 February 2017 |archive-date=2 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302172018/https:// |url-status=live}}
== Gamergate ==
{{Main|Gamergate (harassment campaign)}}
In 2014, Yiannopoulos emerged as a "lead actor" in the Gamergate harassment campaign through his work at Breitbart,{{cite journal |last=Mortensen |first=Torill Elvira |date=April 13, 2016 |title=Anger, Fear, and Games: The Long Event of #GamerGate |journal=Games and Culture |publisher=SAGE Publishing |location=Thousand Oaks, California |volume=13 |issue=8 |pages=787–806 |doi=10.1177/1555412016640408 |s2cid=147383984|url=https://pure.itu.dk/portal/da/publications/b7dde92b-90cb-4cb0-87b1-16aa8fc38055 }} becoming one of the most vocal of Gamergate's supporters.Hannan, J. (2018). Trolling ourselves to death? Social media and post-truth politics. European Journal of Communication, 33(2), 214–226. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323118760323 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002070711/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0267323118760323 |date=2 October 2020 }}. Yiannopoulos employed Gamergate as a basis for online attacks on women,Aghazadeh S.A. et al. (2018) "GamerGate: A Case Study in Online Harassment". In: Golbeck J. (eds) Online Harassment. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. {{ISBN|978-3-319-78582-0}} and his role in Gamergate allowed him to become one of the central figures in the mainstream growth of the alt-right.Winter A. (2019) "Online Hate: From the Far-Right to the 'Alt-Right' and from the Margins to the Mainstream". in: Lumsden K., Harmer E. (eds) Online Othering. Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, {{ISBN|978-3-030-12632-2}} Before Gamergate, Yiannopoulos referred to gamers as "pungent beta male bollock scratchers" and also said that "Few things are more embarrassing than grown men getting over excited about video games".{{cite book |last1=Milburn |first1=Colin |title=Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life |date=2018 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-1-4780-0278-9 |page=169 |doi=10.1215/9781478090366 |doi-access=free|hdl=20.500.12657/22280 }}
== Association with neo-Nazism and the alt-right ==
In early October 2017, BuzzFeed News published leaked email chains from Yiannopoulos' tenure at Breitbart. According to the report, Yiannopoulos and his ghostwriter Allum Bokhari regularly solicited ideas for stories and comments from people associated with the alt-right and neo-Nazi movements. Among the figures Yiannopoulos contacted were Curtis Yarvin, a central figure of the neoreactionary movement; Devin Saucier, the editor of the white supremacist magazine American Renaissance; Andrew Auernheimer, the administrator of neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer; and Baked Alaska, a commentator known for his antisemitic and pro-Nazi tweets.{{cite news |last=Bernstein |first=Joseph |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism |title=Alt-White: How the Breitbart Machine laundered Racist Hate |work=BuzzFeed News |date=5 October 2017 |access-date=6 October 2017 |archive-date=6 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006000933/https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism |url-status=live}}
The story also reported that Yiannopoulos had a penchant for using personal passwords with antisemitic overtones, such as 'Kristall', a reference to Kristallnacht, and 'longknives1290', a compound reference to the Night of the Long Knives and the Edict of Expulsion.
In a Breitbart article, Yiannopoulos and a co-author described the alt-right movement as "dangerously bright". The Tablet stated that many of these intellectual backers write for publications it describes as racist and antisemitic, such as VDARE and American Renaissance. The Breitbart article was criticised by opponents of the alt-right for excusing the extremist elements of the movement, and also by the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer which holds that racism and antisemitism are pillars of the alt-right.{{cite news |last1=Kirchick |first1=James |title=The Sad Story of Milo Yiannopoulos: the Trump Troll With Daddy Issues |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/203888/donald-trumps-little-boy |work=Tablet Magazine |date=1 June 2016 |access-date=18 November 2016 |archive-date=13 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113213856/http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/203888/donald-trumps-little-boy |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Hankes |first1=Keegan |title=Whose Alt-Right Is It Anyway? |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/08/25/whose-alt-right-it-anyway |access-date=18 September 2016 |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |date=25 August 2016 |archive-date=16 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616030239/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/08/25/whose-alt-right-it-anyway |url-status=live}}
The Anti-Defamation League classifies Yiannopoulos as part of the alt-lite, a term used to distinguish individuals sometimes associated with the alt-right from those who are openly white nationalist and antisemitic.{{cite web |title=From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate |url=https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate |publisher=Anti-Defamation League |access-date=9 August 2017 |archive-date=24 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024230932/https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate |url-status=live}} These accusations, as well as Yiannopoulos's support for Donald Trump, have contributed to a feud between Yiannopoulos and Ben Shapiro, a Jewish conservative political commentator who refused to support Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Shapiro accused Yiannopoulos, his followers, and other Trump supporters of racist and antisemitic behaviour. He criticised Yiannopoulos's attempts to distinguish between real racist or bigoted behaviour and trolling, stating that "words have meaning" and that the distinction that Yiannopoulos was attempting to make "simply doesn't exist in objective reality".{{cite web |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/05/ben-shapiros-messy-breakup-with-breitbart.html |title=Explaining Ben Shapiro's Messy, Ethnic-Slur-Laden Breakup With Breitbart |last=Singal |first=Jesse |date=26 May 2016 |work=Intelligencer |access-date=2 March 2019 |archive-date=3 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003121555/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/ben-shapiros-messy-breakup-with-breitbart.html |url-status=live}}
In 2017, Yiannopoulos was depicted singing "America the Beautiful" at a karaoke bar, where a crowd of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, including Richard B. Spencer, cheered him with the Nazi sieg heil salute. In response, Yiannopoulos denied observing the Nazi salutes while he was singing, citing what he claimed to be "extreme myopia". According to the bartender who was working on the night of the incident, Yiannopoulos, Spencer and their entourage came into the bar and asked to sing karaoke even though it had ended. When the bartender saw the Nazi salutes she rushed the stage and told Yiannopoulos and his friends to leave, at which point they began harassing her, chanting "Trump! Trump! Trump!" and "Make America Great Again!" According to her, Yiannopoulos was getting the others "roused".Breitbart emails:
- {{cite news |last=Bernstein |first=Joseph |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism |title=Alt-White: How the Breitbart Machine laundered Racist Hate |work=BuzzFeed News |date=5 October 2017 |access-date=6 October 2017 |archive-date=6 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006000933/https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |last1=Young |first1=Stephen |title=Meet the Dallas Bartender Who Kicked Milo Yiannopoulos and Some Neo-Nazis Out of Her Bar |url=http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/interview-with-bartender-who-kicked-milo-yiannopoulos-out-of-karaoke-9948271 |access-date=8 October 2017 |work=Dallas Observer |date=6 October 2017 |archive-date=8 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008080128/http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/interview-with-bartender-who-kicked-milo-yiannopoulos-out-of-karaoke-9948271 |url-status=live}}
Following these revelations, billionaire Robert Mercer ceased his support for Yiannopoulos and condemned him,Nguyen, Tina. (2 November 2017). "[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/bob-mercer-defunds-milo-yiannopoulos-sells-stake-in-breitbart "Holy S—t": Allies Shocked as Bob Mercer Renounces Milo, Dumps His Stake in Breitbart] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125085555/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/bob-mercer-defunds-milo-yiannopoulos-sells-stake-in-breitbart |date=25 January 2018 }}", Vanity Fair. Retrieved 11 September 2019. as did Yiannopoulos's former employer Steve Bannon.Nguyen, Tina. (23 October 2017). "[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/steve-bannon-disowns-milo-yiannopoulos Steve Bannon Half-Heartedly Disowns Milo Yiannopoulos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118125648/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/steve-bannon-disowns-milo-yiannopoulos |date=18 November 2017 }}", Vanity Fair. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
In November 2019, Yiannopoulos released an audio recording which appeared to feature Spencer using the racial slurs 'octaroons' and 'kikes', referring respectively to African Americans and Jewish people. The recording appeared to date from the immediate aftermath of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and the murder of Heather Heyer.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/04/white-supremacist-richard-spencer-racist-slurs-tape-milo-yiannopoulos |title=White supremacist Richard Spencer makes racist slurs on tape leaked by rival |last=Wilson |first=Jason |date=4 November 2019 |work=The Guardian |access-date=7 November 2019 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=7 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107010122/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/04/white-supremacist-richard-spencer-racist-slurs-tape-milo-yiannopoulos |url-status=live}}
=Social media controversies and bans=
In December 2015, Twitter briefly suspended Yiannopoulos' account after he changed his profile to describe himself as BuzzFeed{{'}}s "social justice editor." His Twitter account's blue "verification" checkmark was removed by the site the following month. Twitter declined to explain its removal, saying they do not comment on individual cases. Some news outlets speculated that Yiannopoulos had violated its speech and harassment codes, as with an instance where he told another user that they "deserved to be harassed." Others worried that Twitter was targeting conservatives.{{cite news |last1=Kantrowitz |first1=Alex |title=Twitter Unverifies Writer Amid Speech Wars |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/twitter-unverifies-milo-yiannopoulos-leading-to-speech-polic |access-date=1 January 2024 |work=BuzzFeed News |date=9 January 2016}}Twitter controversy:
- {{cite web |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/twitter-refuses-say-why-it-has-punished-uk-journalist-removing-verified-status |title=Twitter refuses to say why it has punished UK journalist by removing 'verified' status |work=Press Gazette |date=14 January 2016 |access-date=15 January 2016 |archive-date=17 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160117002311/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/twitter-refuses-say-why-it-has-punished-uk-journalist-removing-verified-status |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.recode.net/2016/1/10/11588646/can-twitter-police-the-madness-on-its-platform-the-fallout-from-the |title=Can Twitter 'Police the Madness' on Its Platform? The Fallout From the Milo Yiannopoulos Controversy Suggests Not |last=Kulwin |first=Noah |date=10 January 2016 |website=Recode |access-date=26 May 2016 |archive-date=1 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601224009/http://www.recode.net/2016/1/10/11588646/can-twitter-police-the-madness-on-its-platform-the-fallout-from-the |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/milo-yiannopoulos-nero-unverified-by-twitter-2016-1?r=UK&IR=T |title=Milo Yiannopoulos @Nero unverified by Twitter |author=Jim Edwards |date=10 January 2016 |work=Business Insider |access-date=15 January 2016 |archive-date=13 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113183036/http://www.businessinsider.com/milo-yiannopoulos-nero-unverified-by-twitter-2016-1?r=UK&IR=T |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=https://theweek.com/articles/598597/why-twitter-punishing-conservatives |title=Why is Twitter punishing conservatives? |date=12 January 2016 |work=The Week |access-date=26 May 2016 |archive-date=2 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602210431/http://theweek.com/articles/598597/why-twitter-punishing-conservatives |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=https://byzvest.com/2016/01/09/twitter-goes-to-war-with-conservatives-unverifies-milo-yiannopoulos-for-opposing-views/ |title=Twitter Goes to War with Conservatives, Unverifies Milo Yiannopoulos for Opposing Views |last=byzvest |date=9 January 2016 |website=byzvest |access-date=26 May 2016 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205110926/http://byzvest.com/2016/01/09/twitter-goes-to-war-with-conservatives-unverifies-milo-yiannopoulos-for-opposing-views/ |archive-date=5 February 2016}}
In July 2016, Yiannopoulos panned the Ghostbusters reboot as "a movie to help lonely middle-aged women feel better about being left on the shelf." After the film's release, Twitter trolls attacked African American actress Leslie Jones with racial slurs. Yiannopoulos wrote three public tweets about Jones, saying "Ghostbusters is doing so badly they've deployed Leslie Jones to play the victim on Twitter," before describing her reply to him as "barely literate" and then calling her a "black dude". Multiple media outlets have described Yiannopoulos' tweets as encouraging the abuse directed at Jones. Yiannopoulos was then banned by Twitter for what the company cited as "inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others". He later stated that he was banned because of his conservative beliefs.Leslie Jones abuse:
- {{cite news |date=20 July 2016 |title=Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos banned from Twitter for harassing Ghostbusters' Leslie Jones |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/twitter-milo-yiannopolous-banned-leslie-jones-1.3686843 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160721214439/http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/twitter-milo-yiannopolous-banned-leslie-jones-1.3686843 |archive-date=21 July 2016 |access-date=22 July 2016 |publisher=CBC News}}
- {{cite news |last1=Jenkins |first1=Nash |date=20 July 2016 |title=Twitter Suspends Account of Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos |url=https://time.com/4414400/milo-yiannopolous-twitter-abuse/ |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160723172302/http://time.com/4414400/milo-yiannopolous-twitter-abuse/ |archive-date=23 July 2016 |access-date=21 July 2016 |magazine=Time}}
- {{cite web |last=Papenfuss |first=Mary |date=25 August 2016 |title=Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones shuts down website after hacker posts nude photos of her |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ghostbusters-star-leslie-jones-shuts-down-website-after-hacker-posts-nude-photos-her-1577891 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123143629/http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ghostbusters-star-leslie-jones-shuts-down-website-after-hacker-posts-nude-photos-her-1577891 |archive-date=23 November 2016 |access-date=25 August 2016 |work=International Business Times}}{{Unreliable source?|date=November 2024 |certain=y}}
- {{cite news |last1=Kew |first1=Ben |date=20 July 2016 |title=Abuse of Ghostbusters' Leslie Jones leads to Twitter ban for Milo Yiannopoulos |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-20/twitter-bans-milo-yiannopoulos/7644668 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722195728/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-20/twitter-bans-milo-yiannopoulos/7644668 |archive-date=22 July 2016 |access-date=20 July 2016 |publisher=ABC News}} Since the company was taken over by Elon Musk, his account has been reinstated.
In May 2019, Yiannopoulos and several others active in politics and culture, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and conspiracy theorists and fellow right-wing pundits Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson, were permanently banned from Facebook, which called them "dangerous." "We've always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology," a Facebook spokesperson said. "The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today."{{cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/tech/facebook-ban-louis-farrakhan-infowars-alex-jones-milo-laura-loomer/index.html |title=Facebook bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and others from its platforms as 'dangerous' |last=Oliver |first=Darcy |date=2 May 2019 |publisher=CNN |access-date=2 May 2019 |archive-date=5 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505065156/https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/tech/facebook-ban-louis-farrakhan-infowars-alex-jones-milo-laura-loomer/index.html |url-status=live}}
= Tours =
Yiannopoulos has appeared on a number of controversial tours, beginning in 2015 with The Dangerous Faggot Tour, encompassing universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Although few of his American speeches were cancelled, many were met with protests ranging from vocal disruptions to violent demonstrations. Yiannopoulos has had visas denied or cancelled on multiple occasions.{{cite news |last1=Moore |first1=Brenden |last2=Kirsten |first2=Onsgard |date=25 May 2016 |title=Students call for end to hate speech at Yiannopoulos protest |url=http://depauliaonline.com/2016/05/25/depaul-yiannopoulos-protest-hate-speech |publisher=DePaul University |work=The DePaulia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526112532/http://depauliaonline.com/2016/05/25/depaul-yiannopoulos-protest-hate-speech/ |archive-date=26 May 2016 |url-status=usurped}}{{cite news |last1=Krupp |first1=Emma |last2=Onsgard |first2=Kirsten |last3=Paras |first3=Matthew |date=24 May 2016 |title=Protesters shut down Yiannopoulos speech |url=http://depauliaonline.com/2016/05/24/depaul-protesters-shut-down-yiannopoulos |publisher=DePaul University |work=The DePaulia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526122708/http://depauliaonline.com/2016/05/24/depaul-protesters-shut-down-yiannopoulos |archive-date=26 May 2016 |url-status=usurped}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/28/did-this-professor-resign-rather-than-listen-to-politically-incorrect-speaker.html |title=Trump troll Popularized by PC Mob |last=Soave |first=Robby |date=28 May 2016 |work=The Daily Beast |access-date=20 February 2017 |archive-date=3 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103232615/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/28/did-this-professor-resign-rather-than-listen-to-politically-incorrect-speaker.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}
In January 2017, Yiannopoulos spoke at the University of Washington. The event led to large protests.{{cite news |last1=Woodward |first1=Benjamin |title=How the shooting at the UW protest of Milo Yiannopoulos unfolded |url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/how-the-shooting-at-the-uw-protest-of-milo-yiannopoulos-unfolded/ |access-date=2 February 2017 |work=The Seattle Times |date=24 January 2017 |archive-date=3 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203052554/http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/how-the-shooting-at-the-uw-protest-of-milo-yiannopoulos-unfolded/ |url-status=live}} A 34-year-old man was shot while protesting and suffered life-threatening injuries. A witness recalled seeing someone release pepper spray in the crowd, which triggered the shooting confrontation.{{cite web |title=Man shot on UW campus during protest is improving, breathing on his own |date=21 January 2017 |url=http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/man-shot-during-uw-event-for-milo-yiannopoulos/486520649 |publisher=KIRO7 News |access-date=22 January 2017 |archive-date=22 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170122013437/http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/man-shot-during-uw-event-for-milo-yiannopoulos/486520649 |url-status=live}}
File:Milo Yiannopoulos - The Daily Californian.jpg resulting from the 2017 protest]]
On 1 February 2017, Yiannopoulos was scheduled to make a speech at UC Berkeley. More than 100 UC Berkeley faculty had signed a petition demanding the university cancel the event. Over 1,500 people gathered to protest against the event on the steps of Sproul Hall, with some violence breaking out. According to the university, around 150 masked agitators came onto campus and interrupted the protest, setting fires, damaging property, throwing fireworks, attacking members of the crowd, and throwing rocks at the police. These violent protesters included members of BAMN, who threw rocks at police, shattered windows, threw Molotov cocktails, and later vandalised downtown Berkeley. Among those assaulted were a Syrian Muslim in a suit who was pepper sprayed and hit with a rod by a protester who said "You look like a Nazi", and a woman who was pepper sprayed while being interviewed by a TV reporter.*{{cite news |last1=Fuller |first1=Thomas |title=A Free Speech Battle at the Birthplace of a Movement at Berkeley |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/university-california-berkeley-free-speech-milo-yiannopoulos.html |access-date=2 February 2017 |date=2 February 2017 |archive-date=27 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427083943/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/university-california-berkeley-free-speech-milo-yiannopoulos.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}
- {{cite news |title=Milo Yiannopoulos event canceled after violence erupts |url=http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/02/01/yiannopoulos-event-canceled/ |access-date=2 February 2017 |work=UC Berkeley News |date=1 February 2017 |archive-date=2 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202061120/http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/02/01/yiannopoulos-event-canceled/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |title=Chaos erupts, protesters shut down Yiannopolous events, banks in downtown vandalized |url=http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/02/02/chaos-erupts-protesters-shut-yiannopolous-events-banks-downtown-vandalized/ |access-date=15 February 2017 |publisher=Berkeleyside |date=2 February 2017 |archive-date=28 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428164423/http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/02/02/chaos-erupts-protesters-shut-yiannopolous-events-banks-downtown-vandalized/ |url-status=live}}
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/opinion/how-violence-undermined-the-berkeley-protest.html How Violence Undermined the Berkeley Protest] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409060409/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/opinion/how-violence-undermined-the-berkeley-protest.html |date=9 April 2017 }}, The New York Times, 2 February 2017.
- [http://www.fox5ny.com/news/233358586-story Woman pepper sprayed by Berkeley protester] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212010148/http://www.fox5ny.com/news/233358586-story |date=12 February 2017 }}, fox5ny.com, 2 February 2017. Citing security concerns, the UC Police Department cancelled the event. One person was arrested for failure to disperse, and there was about $100,000 in damage. The police were criticised for their "hands off" policy whereby they did not arrest any of the demonstrators who committed assault, vandalism, or arson.[http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/02/07/berkeley-police-criticized-for-hands-off-approach-to-violent-demonstrators/ Berkeley Police Criticized For 'Hands-Off' Approach To Violent Demonstrators] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621231805/http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/02/07/berkeley-police-criticized-for-hands-off-approach-to-violent-demonstrators/ |date=21 June 2017 }}, CBS Sacramento, 7 February 2017.[http://abc7news.com/news/police-criticized-for-lack-of-action-during-berkeley-protests/1734527/ Police criticised for lack of action during U.C. Berkeley protests] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707224925/http://abc7news.com/news/police-criticized-for-lack-of-action-during-berkeley-protests/1734527/ |date=7 July 2017 }}, ABC 7, 2 February 2017. Berkeley police reported at least 11 arrests, but no injuries or damage to buildings. UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said afterwards that the media event amounted to "the most expensive photo op in the university's history."*{{cite web |last=Lee |first=Chantelle |url=http://www.dailycal.org/2017/09/16/failure-confirm-berkeley-patriot-loses-zellerbach-wheeler-auditoriums-free-speech-week/ |title='Failure to confirm': Berkeley Patriot loses 2 venues for 'Free Speech Week' |publisher=Dailycal.org |date=16 September 2017 |access-date=26 September 2017 |archive-date=29 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929152619/http://www.dailycal.org/2017/09/16/failure-confirm-berkeley-patriot-loses-zellerbach-wheeler-auditoriums-free-speech-week/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-berkeley-free-speech-week-20170921-story.html |title=Confusion reigns as far-right Berkeley 'free speech week' approaches: Coulter won't be coming |work=Los Angeles Times |date=22 September 2017 |access-date=26 September 2017 |archive-date=26 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926100139/http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-berkeley-free-speech-week-20170921-story.html |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-milo-berkeley-antifa-20170925-htmlstory.html |title=How the 'Coachella of Conservatism' fizzled into an 'expensive photo opp' at Berkeley |work=Los Angeles Times |date=25 September 2017 |access-date=26 September 2017 |archive-date=26 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926000204/http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-milo-berkeley-antifa-20170925-htmlstory.html |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=McCausland |first1=Phil |last2=Dzhanova |first2=Yelena |title='Free Speech Week' at UC Berkeley Canceled, Milo Yiannopoulos Blames School |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/free-speech-week-uc-berkeley-canceled-milo-yiannopoulos-blames-school-n804171 |access-date=23 September 2017 |publisher=NBC News |date=23 September 2017 |archive-date=23 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923215638/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/free-speech-week-uc-berkeley-canceled-milo-yiannopoulos-blames-school-n804171 |url-status=live}}
In November 2017, Yiannopoulos began a tour of Australia, visiting Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth. During the Adelaide show, Yiannopoulos stirred controversy by projecting an unflattering photo of the feminist writer Clementine Ford, taken when she was a teenager, with the word 'UNFUCKABLE' superimposed over the top. During events in Melbourne, he again stirred controversy when he described Australian Aboriginal art as "crap" and "really shit". Seven people were arrested after clashing with police and outside the venue for Yiannopoulos's Sydney event. Yiannopoulos claimed the violence was caused by "the left, showing up, being violent to stop freedom of speech".Troll academy:
- {{cite web |last1=Sparrow |first1=Jeff |title=Bad things don't vanish when you look away. Don't ignore Milo Yiannopoulos |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/11/bad-things-dont-vanish-when-you-look-away-dont-ignore-milo-yiannopoulos |work=The Guardian |date=10 October 2017 |access-date=15 December 2018 |archive-date=15 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215122443/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/11/bad-things-dont-vanish-when-you-look-away-dont-ignore-milo-yiannopoulos |url-status=live}}
- {{Cite web |url=http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/conservative-activist-avi-yemini-said-protests-outside-milo-yiannopoulos-speech-was-like-being-in-the-middle-east/news-story/439b7e5a6670f75661e940c9529cd572 |title=Conservative activist Avi Yemini said protests outside Milo Yiannopoulos speech was like being in the Middle East |date=5 December 2017 |access-date=5 December 2017 |archive-date=5 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205120405/http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/conservative-activist-avi-yemini-said-protests-outside-milo-yiannopoulos-speech-was-like-being-in-the-middle-east/news-story/439b7e5a6670f75661e940c9529cd572 |url-status=live}}
- {{Cite web |url=http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/milo-yiannopoulos-in-sydney-controversial-speaker-and-team-receive-death-threats/news-story/d6d14c796368507b67edd900ed399e67 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos in Sydney: Controversial speaker and team receive death threats |date=5 December 2017 |access-date=5 December 2017 |archive-date=5 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205075603/http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/milo-yiannopoulos-in-sydney-controversial-speaker-and-team-receive-death-threats/news-story/d6d14c796368507b67edd900ed399e67 |url-status=live}} There was also violence outside his Melbourne events as protesters from the left-aligned Campaign Against Racism and Fascism and right-wing True Blue Crew clashed, eventually triggering a response by riot police, who used pepper spray to control the crowd.{{Cite web |last=Cunningham |first=Melissa |date=2018-07-16 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos and tour organisers yet to pay $50k bill for extra police at show |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/milo-yiannopoulos-and-tour-organisers-yet-to-pay-50k-bill-for-extra-police-at-show-20180716-p4zrua.html |access-date=2025-05-08 |website=The Age |language=en}} [https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/milo-yiannopoulos-and-tour-organisers-yet-to-pay-50k-bill-for-extra-police-at-show-20180716-p4zrua.html Victoria Police] subsequently issued tour organisers a bill for $50,000 for the extra police resources deployed at the event, a move promoter Damien Costas labelled as "political grandstanding".{{Cite web |last=Cunningham |first=Melissa |date=2018-07-16 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos and tour organisers yet to pay $50k bill for extra police at show |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/milo-yiannopoulos-and-tour-organisers-yet-to-pay-50k-bill-for-extra-police-at-show-20180716-p4zrua.html |access-date=2025-05-08 |website=The Age |language=en}}
= Books =
Yiannopoulos published two poetry books under the name Milo Andreas Wagner. His 2007 release Eskimo Papoose was later scrutinised for re-using lines from pop music and television without attribution, to which he replied that it was done deliberately and that the work was satirical.
An autobiography titled Dangerous was announced in December 2016. Yiannopoulos received an $80,000 advance payment from the book's planned publisher, Simon & Schuster.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/milo-yiannopoulos-argues-failure-return-book-advance-doesnt-doom-lawsuit-1041102 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Argues Failure to Return Book Advance Doesn't Doom Lawsuit |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=19 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304185529/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/milo-yiannopoulos-argues-failure-return-book-advance-doesnt-doom-lawsuit-1041102 |archive-date=4 March 2020}} It was intended to be published under their Threshold Editions. A day after its announcement, pre-sales for the book elevated it to first place on Amazon.com's list of best-sellers.{{Cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/02/simon-schuster-cancels-milo-yiannopoulos-book-170221045200392.html |title=Simon & Schuster cancels Milo Yiannopoulos' book |date=21 February 2017 |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=21 February 2017 |archive-date=21 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221130109/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/02/simon-schuster-cancels-milo-yiannopoulos-book-170221045200392.html |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/milo-yiannopoulos-book-2016-12 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos' just-announced book hits No. 1 on Amazon – here's our Q&A with him |work=Business Insider |date=30 December 2016 |access-date=29 August 2017 |last=Darcy |first=Oliver |archive-date=10 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810090702/http://www.businessinsider.com/milo-yiannopoulos-book-2016-12 |url-status=live}}
In February 2017, Simon & Schuster cancelled its plans to publish the book in the wake of the video and sexual-consent comments controversy that also led to CPAC withdrawing its speaking invitation and Yiannopoulos resigning from Breitbart. Yiannopoulos began litigation against Simon & Schuster for "breach of contract" and "breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing", seeking $10 million in damages. He dropped the suit in February 2018.Dangerous:
- {{cite news |title=Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart over pedophilia comments |first=Edward |last=Helmore |date=22 February 2017 |access-date=29 August 2017 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-breitbart-pedophilia-comments |archive-date=30 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830110430/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-breitbart-pedophilia-comments |url-status=live}}
- {{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yiannopoulos-book-deal-canceled-simon-schuster-paedophilia-podcast-dangerous-a7590706.html |title=Milo Yiannopoulos book cancelled by Simon & Schuster after 'pro-paedophilia' video controversy |last=Garcia |first=Feliks |date=20 February 2017 |work=The Independent |access-date=20 February 2017 |archive-date=21 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221021830/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yiannopoulos-book-deal-canceled-simon-schuster-paedophilia-podcast-dangerous-a7590706.html |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/milo-yiannopoulos-wins-first-round-10-million-lawsuit-simon-schuster-1046027 |last=Gardner |first=Eriq |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Wins First Round in $10M Lawsuit Against Simon & Schuster |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=5 October 2017 |access-date=18 October 2017 |archive-date=18 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018073940/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/milo-yiannopoulos-wins-first-round-10-million-lawsuit-simon-schuster-1046027 |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/20/milo-yiannopoulos-drops-lawsuit-over-his-cancelled-book |title=Milo Yiannopoulos drops lawsuit over his cancelled book |last=Cain |first=Sian |date=20 February 2018 |website=The Guardian |access-date=25 October 2018 |archive-date=10 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810151933/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/20/milo-yiannopoulos-drops-lawsuit-over-his-cancelled-book |url-status=live}}
In May 2017, Yiannopoulos announced that he would self-publish the book on 4 July 2017. Soon after the announcement, the book became the best-selling political humour book on Amazon. The book was a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller. The book further peaked at No. 1 on Publishers Weekly{{'}}s nonfiction bestseller list and at No. 2 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list.Dangerous:
- {{cite web |last1=Yiannopoulos |first1=Milo |title=Milo Announces Release Date For Debut Book Dangerous |url=https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/05/milo-press-release-dangerous/ |website=milo.yiannopoulos.net |access-date=6 June 2017 |date=26 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803171135/https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/05/milo-press-release-dangerous/ |archive-date=3 August 2017 |url-status=dead}}
- {{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Entertainment/wireStory/milo-publishing-book-dropped-simon-schuster-47863181 |title=Milo self-publishing book dropped by Simon and Schuster |publisher=ABC News |date=6 June 2017 |access-date=6 June 2017 |archive-date=19 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119235321/http://abcnews.go.com/amp/Entertainment/wireStory/milo-publishing-book-dropped-simon-schuster-47863181 |url-status=live}}
- {{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/books/2017/06/06/milo-yiannopoulos-self-publish-dangerous |title=Milo Yiannopoulos to self-publish his book Dangerous |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=6 June 2017 |access-date=29 August 2017 |last=Holub |first=Christian |archive-date=12 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912161333/http://ew.com/books/2017/06/06/milo-yiannopoulos-self-publish-dangerous/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |publisher=BuzzFeed |title=We Got Our Hands on a Draft of Milo Yiannopoulos's Book. It's Awful. |first=Joseph |last=Bernstein |date=15 June 2017 |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/we-got-our-hands-on-a-draft-of-milo-yiannopouloss-book-its |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616155114/https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/we-got-our-hands-on-a-draft-of-milo-yiannopouloss-book-its?utm_term=.jjawlKgb6a |archive-date=16 June 2017}}
- {{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2017/07/23 |title=Best Sellers |work=The New York Times |access-date=21 August 2017 |archive-date=7 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807234957/https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2017/07/23/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/best-selling/week/2017/28 |title=Book Reviews and Best Selling Lists |website=USA Today |date=28 July 2017 |access-date=21 August 2017 |archive-date=31 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731120709/https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/best-selling/week/2017/28/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/74986-judge-says-milo-yiannopoulos-lawsuit-against-s-s-can-proceed.html |title=Judge Says Yiannopoulos' Lawsuit Against S&S Can Proceed |access-date=17 October 2017 |archive-date=17 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017093926/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/74986-judge-says-milo-yiannopoulos-lawsuit-against-s-s-can-proceed.html |url-status=live}}
Yiannopoulos published the book Diabolical: How Pope Francis Has Betrayed Clerical Abuse Victims Like Me – and Why He Has to Go in 2018. He stated: "The main purpose of writing this new book was to talk about the homosexual cancer that has infected the Vatican". The book repeated the discredited claim that paedophilia and homosexuality are linked. Yiannopoulos promoted the book through Michael Voris, a traditionalist Catholic, celibate bisexual and anti-LGBT activist.{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/25/anti-lgbt-activist-explores-pedophilia-myth-disgraced-far-right-provocateur |title=Anti-LGBT Activist Explores Pedophilia Myth With Disgraced Far-Right Provocateur |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |date=25 January 2019 |language=en |access-date=1 May 2019 |archive-date=1 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501214138/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/25/anti-lgbt-activist-explores-pedophilia-myth-disgraced-far-right-provocateur |url-status=live}}
Yiannopoulos's self-published books How to Be Poor and How to Be Straight were also released in 2019. The former was released after the revelation of his alleged insolvency.{{Cite web |url=https://www.queerty.com/milo-yiannopoulos-just-got-ripped-off-conservatives-oklahoma-20190426 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos just got ripped off by conservatives in Oklahoma / Queerty |date=26 April 2019 |access-date=27 June 2019 |archive-date=19 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190519233835/https://www.queerty.com/milo-yiannopoulos-just-got-ripped-off-conservatives-oklahoma-20190426 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.gq.com/story/milo-yiannopoulos-millions-in-debt |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Is Millions of Dollars in Debt |last=Darby |first=Luke |website=GQ |date=3 December 2018 |access-date=27 June 2019 |archive-date=25 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525014846/https://www.gq.com/story/milo-yiannopoulos-millions-in-debt |url-status=live}} He also wrote The Trial of Roger Stone and Middle Rages: Why the Battle for Medieval Studies Matters to America, which discussed controversies surrounding Rachel Fulton Brown,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/arts/the-battle-for-medieval-studies-white-supremacy.html |title=Medieval Scholars Joust with White Nationalists. And One Another |work=The New York Times |date=5 May 2019 |last1=Schuessler |first1=Jennifer |url-access=limited}} a professor of medieval studies at the University of Chicago.
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= Paedophilia and child sexual abuse =
In February 2017, it was announced that Yiannopoulos would address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). A conservative website, Reagan Battalion, then posted video of 2015 and 2016 clips of YouTube interviews at the request of a 16-year-old Canadian student who was opposed to Yiannopoulos' CPAC address.
In the interview from a January 2016 episode of the podcast Drunken Peasants, Yiannopoulos stated that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can "happen perfectly consensually", because some 13-year-olds are, in his view, sexually and emotionally mature enough to consent to sex with adults; he spoke favourably both of gay 13-year-old boys having sex with adult men and straight 13-year-old boys having sex with adult women. He used his own experience as an example, saying he was mature enough to be capable of giving consent at a young age. He also stated that "paedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old, who is sexually mature" but rather that "paedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty". Later in the interview, after his previous comments received some pushback from the hosts, he stated: "I think the age of consent law is probably about right, that is probably roughly the right age ... but there are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age, I certainly consider myself to be one of them."Paedophilia remarks:
- {{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/02/21/the-96-hours-that-brought-down-milo-yiannopoulos |title=The 96 hours that brought down Milo Yiannopoulos |first1=Abby |last1=Ohlheiser |date=21 February 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=1 March 2017 |archive-date=1 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301121330/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/02/21/the-96-hours-that-brought-down-milo-yiannopoulos/ |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}
- {{Cite news |url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/cpac-milo-yiannopoulos-pedophilia.html |title=CPAC Blasted for Milo Yiannopoulos Invite After Pedophilia Remarks Resurface |last=Hartmann |first=Margaret |work=New York |access-date=21 February 2017 |archive-date=21 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221011019/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/cpac-milo-yiannopoulos-pedophilia.html |url-status=live}}
- {{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-from-breitbart-news/2017/02/21/0217c128-f7cc-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html |title=Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos resigns following outrage over his past comments about pedophilia |last=Farhi |first=Paul |date=20 February 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=29 August 2017 |issn=0190-8286 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221221043/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-from-breitbart-news/2017/02/21/0217c128-f7cc-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html |archive-date=21 February 2017 |url-access=limited}}
- {{cite news |last1=Lopez |first1=German |title=Meet the 16-year-old Canadian girl who took down Milo Yiannopoulos |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/24/14715774/milo-yiannopoulos-cpac-pedophile-video-canada |access-date=5 March 2017 |work=Vox |date=24 February 2017 |quote=But it started when a 16-year-old high school student in Canada decided Yiannopoulos was embraced much too closely by mainstream conservatives. The teen was moved to dig up footage on Yiannopoulos when she heard that he'd been invited to speak at ... the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). She defines herself as 'very socially liberal,' but leans right on economics and foreign policy. |archive-date=6 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306135343/http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/24/14715774/milo-yiannopoulos-cpac-pedophile-video-canada |url-status=live}}
- {{cite AV media |last=Drunken Peasants |title=Milo Yiannopoulos |url=https://www.youtube.com/embed/azC1nm85btY?hd=1&iv_load_policy=3 |access-date=29 August 2017 |ref=none |archive-date=11 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211071649/https://www.youtube.com/embed/azC1nm85btY?hd=1&iv_load_policy=3 |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/20/cpac-disinvites-milo-yiannopoulos-despite-his-attempt-at-contrition.html |title=CPAC Disinvites Milo Yiannopoulos, Despite His Attempt at Contrition |first1=Jackie |last1=Kucinich |first2=Asawin |last2=Suebsaeng |date=20 February 2017 |work=The Daily Beast |access-date=21 February 2017 |archive-date=22 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222052902/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/20/cpac-disinvites-milo-yiannopoulos-despite-his-attempt-at-contrition.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.thewrap.com/milo-yiannopoulos-denies-defending-pedophilia-video-jake-tapper |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Denies Defending Pedophilia; Jake Tapper Condemns |date=20 February 2017 |website=TheWrap |access-date=21 February 2017 |archive-date=21 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221105832/http://www.thewrap.com/milo-yiannopoulos-denies-defending-pedophilia-video-jake-tapper/ |url-status=live}}
Yiannopoulos subsequently held a press conference, at which he said he had been molested as a child, and that his comments were a way to cope with it. He declined to identify his abusers or discuss the incidents in any detail. He characterised his comments as the "usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humour", and denied condoning child sexual abuse. He alleged that the video had been edited to give a misleading impression, and stated, "I will not apologise for dealing with my life experiences in the best way that I can, which is humour. No one can tell me or anyone else who has lived through sexual abuse how to deal with those emotions. But I am sorry to other abuse victims if my own personal way of dealing with what happened to me has hurt you."Paedophilia remarks:
- {{cite news |title=Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart over pedophilia comments |first=Edward |last=Helmore |date=22 February 2017 |access-date=29 August 2017 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-breitbart-pedophilia-comments |archive-date=30 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830110430/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-breitbart-pedophilia-comments |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39026870 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos: Who is the alt-right writer and provocateur? |date=21 February 2017 |work=BBC News |access-date=29 August 2017 |archive-date=16 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816030037/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39026870 |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39037244 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos dropped over paedophilia comments |date=21 February 2017 |work=BBC News |access-date=29 August 2017 |archive-date=5 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170605031858/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39037244 |url-status=live}} In response to the controversy, Simon & Schuster cancelled its plans to publish his autobiography in June 2017. Media outlets reported on 20 February that Breitbart was considering terminating Yiannopoulos' contract as a result of the controversy. Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart on 21 February, reportedly under pressure to do so.Simon & Schuster:
- {{cite news |last=Garcia |first=Feliks |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yiannopoulos-book-deal-canceled-simon-schuster-paedophilia-podcast-dangerous-a7590706.html |title=Milo Yiannopoulos' book deal was just cancelled |work=The Independent |date=20 February 2017 |access-date=21 February 2017 |archive-date=21 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221021830/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yiannopoulos-book-deal-canceled-simon-schuster-paedophilia-podcast-dangerous-a7590706.html |url-status=live}}
- {{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/business/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-from-breitbart-news-after-pedophilia-comments.html |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns From Breitbart News After Pedophilia Comments |last=Ember |first=Sydney |date=21 February 2017 |work=The New York Times |access-date=21 February 2017 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=22 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222035509/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/business/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-from-breitbart-news-after-pedophilia-comments.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}
Yiannopoulos was later criticised for attending Hollywood "boat parties" and "house parties" in which boys he described as "very young – very young" were sexually abused, but failing to report the abusers to the authorities or to identify them during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience. When asked about this by Ryan Lizza of New York magazine, Yiannopoulos said he "didn't check anyone's I.D.s." and that he "had no idea what the ages of any of those people at the parties were." He stated that when he said "very young" he was assuming that they were sixteen or seventeen. He reiterated that he does not "advocate for any illegal behavior" or excuse it.Boat parties:
- {{cite news |last1=Duke |first1=Selwyn |title=Milo's Seeming Support for Man-Boy Love Is Worse Than the Inaction That Undid Paterno |url=http://observer.com/2017/02/breitbart-milo-yiannopoulos-joe-rogan-podcast-child-sex-abuse |access-date=22 April 2017 |work=Observer |location=New York |date=21 February 2017 |archive-date=10 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410052447/http://observer.com/2017/02/breitbart-milo-yiannopoulos-joe-rogan-podcast-child-sex-abuse/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-alt-right-fellow-traveller-milo-yiannopoulos-cracked-up-the-right |title=How Alt-Right 'Fellow-Traveller' Milo Yiannopoulos Cracked Up the Right |last=Lizza |first=Ryan |date=21 February 2017 |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=2 February 2019 |archive-date=27 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827112708/https://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-alt-right-fellow-traveller-milo-yiannopoulos-cracked-up-the-right |url-status=live}} When, on 10 March, an additional video emerged in which he said on a 2015 episode of Gavin McInnes's show that child sexual abuse is "really not that big a deal. You can't let it ruin your life", Yiannopoulos was criticised for mocking child sexual abuse victims by calling them "whinging selfish brats" for "suddenly" remembering they were abused and "suddenly" deciding it was a problem 20 years after the abuse occurred. He also said there was a "huge, disproportionate overlap between homosexual men and paedophiles".{{cite news |last1=Strudwick |first1=Patrick |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Calls Abuse Victims 'Whinging, Selfish Brats' In A Newly Emerged Video |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/milo-yiannopoulos-described-sexual-abuse-victims-as-whinging |access-date=1 Jan 2023 |work=BuzzFeed |date=11 March 2017 |archive-date=21 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121041520/https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/milo-yiannopoulos-described-sexual-abuse-victims-as-whinging |url-status=live}}
On 5 August 2024, Yiannopoulos tweeted "At 13, I was raped by a priest. His name was Fr Michael. He died years ago. I said some stupid shit trying to make sense of it which was used against me in 2017. The idea that this translates to 'Milo is a pedo' is so warped & dark that anyone who says it is dead to me. Forever."
{{Cite tweet |number=1820624978406187049 |user=Nero |title=At 13, I was raped by a priest. His name was Fr Michael. He died years ago. I said some stupid shit trying to make sense of it which was used against me in 2017. The idea that this translates to "Milo is a pedo" is so warped & dark that anyone who says it is dead to me. Forever. |first=Milo |last=Yiannopoulos |date=5 August 2024 |access-date=4 November 2024 |language=English |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240806022432/https://x.com/Nero/status/1820624978406187049 |archive-date=6 August 2024 |url-status=live |link=https://x.com/Nero/status/1820624978406187049}}
=Violence against journalists=
In 2018, Yiannopoulos told at least two news organisations who had requested comments that he wanted vigilantes to shoot journalists. He wrote in a text message "I can't wait for vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight". Two days later, following a shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, in which five people were killed, Yiannopoulos denied that his comments were responsible, adding that his remarks were a joke. He later posted on Instagram that he sent the messages to troll journalists. On Facebook he wrote: "You're about to see a raft of news stories claiming that I am responsible for inspiring the deaths of journalists" and "The truth, as always, is the opposite of what the media tells you."Violence against journalists:
- {{cite web |url=http://fortune.com/2018/06/26/milo-yiannopoulos-jokes-of-death-squads-murdering-journalists/ |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Jokes of Death Squads Murdering Journalists |work=Fortune |date=26 June 2018 |access-date=28 June 2018 |last=Fleishman |first=Glenn |archive-date=28 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628200935/http://fortune.com/2018/06/26/milo-yiannopoulos-jokes-of-death-squads-murdering-journalists/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/27/milo-wants-vigilantes-start-killing-journalists-and-hes-not-being-ironic |title=Milo wants vigilantes to start killing journalists, and he's not being 'ironic' |work=Southern Poverty Law Center |date=27 June 2018 |access-date=28 June 2018 |last=Neiwert |first=David |archive-date=28 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628003829/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/27/milo-wants-vigilantes-start-killing-journalists-and-hes-not-being-ironic |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.newsweek.com/milo-yiannopoulos-responds-annapolis-capital-gazette-shooting-vigilantes-1000641 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Responds To Annapolis Capital Gazette Shooting: Vigilantes Shooting Journalists Comment Was A Joke |work=Newsweek |date=28 June 2018 |access-date=28 June 2018 |last=Fink |first=Jenni |archive-date=28 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628235013/http://www.newsweek.com/milo-yiannopoulos-responds-annapolis-capital-gazette-shooting-vigilantes-1000641 |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/28/milo-yiannopoulos-confirms-his-gunning-down-journalists-comments/743561002/ |title=13 Milo Yiannopoulos called for 'gunning journalists down on sight,' says it was 'private joke' |work=USA Today |date=28 June 2018 |access-date=28 June 2018 |last=Estepa |first=Jessica |archive-date=28 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628225901/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/28/milo-yiannopoulos-confirms-his-gunning-down-journalists-comments/743561002/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/394715-milo-yiannopoulos-my-call-for-shooting-journalists-was-just-a-troll/ |title=Milo Yiannopoulos: My call for shooting journalists was just a 'troll' |work=The Hill |date=28 June 2018 |access-date=28 June 2018 |last=Greenwood |first=Max |archive-date=28 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628215231/http://thehill.com/homenews/media/394715-milo-yiannopoulos-my-call-for-shooting-journalists-was-just-a-troll |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.wesh.com/article/milo-yiannopoulos-vigilante-squads-hurting-journalists-before-annapolis-shooting/21992535 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos joked about 'vigilante squads' hurting journalists days before Annapolis shooting |publisher=WESH |date=28 June 2018 |access-date=28 June 2018 |archive-date=29 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629021858/http://www.wesh.com/article/milo-yiannopoulos-vigilante-squads-hurting-journalists-before-annapolis-shooting/21992535 |url-status=live}}
In October 2018, following several instances in which pipe bombs had been sent to Trump critics, Yiannopoulos posted the following comment on Instagram: "Just catching up with news of all these pipe bombs. Disgusting and sad (that they didn't go off, and The Daily Beast didn't get one)". After initially refusing to remove the comment when it was reported as hate speech, Instagram later deleted the post.{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/instagram-removes-milo-yiannopoulos-post-praising-pipe-bombs-eventually-1188614 |title=Instagram Removes Milo Yiannopoulos Post Praising Pipe Bombs—eventually |work=Newsweek |date=26 October 2018 |access-date=23 December 2018 |first=Ewan |last=Palmer |archive-date=24 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224023652/https://www.newsweek.com/instagram-removes-milo-yiannopoulos-post-praising-pipe-bombs-eventually-1188614 |url-status=live}}
=Political beliefs=
In the United Kingdom, Yiannopoulos supported the Conservative Party before applying to join the UK Independence Party in June 2018.{{cite web |url=http://observer.com/2017/02/i-knew-milo-yiannopolous-before-he-was-just-milo/ |title=I Knew Milo Yiannopolous Before He Was Just 'Milo' |website=Observer |date=3 February 2017 |access-date=27 June 2018 |archive-date=27 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627230841/http://observer.com/2017/02/i-knew-milo-yiannopolous-before-he-was-just-milo/ |url-status=live}}{{Better source needed|date=April 2021|reason=Opinion piece}} A former supporter of Donald Trump, and a person who was compared to Ann Coulter, he has been referred to as the "face of a political movement", but he says his real concerns are "pop culture and free speech".Trump:
- {{cite web |url=http://www.mediaite.com/online/exclusive-milo-yiannopoulos-breaks-with-trump-on-syria-not-why-people-voted-for-daddy/ |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Breaks With Trump on Syria: 'Not Why People Voted for Daddy' |last=Levine |first=Jon |date=7 April 2017 |website=Mediaite |access-date=29 April 2017 |archive-date=20 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420151551/http://www.mediaite.com/online/exclusive-milo-yiannopoulos-breaks-with-trump-on-syria-not-why-people-voted-for-daddy/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/trump-alt-right-syria-war-214998 |title=Trump's Troll Army Isn't Ready for War in Syria: The alt-right crowd breaks with the president |last=Schreckinger |first=Ben |date=7 April 2017 |website=Politico |access-date=29 August 2017 |archive-date=14 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914204656/http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/trump-alt-right-syria-war-214998 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last=Rude |first=Mey |date=14 December 2020 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos: 'I Lost Everything Helping Put Trump in Office' |url=https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/12/14/milo-yiannopoulos-i-lost-everything-helping-put-trump-office |access-date=30 August 2021 |website=The Advocate |language=en}} In December 2020, Yiannopoulos denounced Trump, saying that "Trump's SCOTUS appointments were pointless. We defended a selfish clown for nothing", and that he would dedicate "the rest of my life to the destruction of the Republican Party".
= Islam =
Yiannopoulos is a frequent critic of Islam and has said the "fear of Islam is entirely rational".{{Cite web |last=Obeidallah |first=Dean |date=2017-02-19 |title=Bill Maher's shameful mainstreaming of Yiannopoulos' hate |url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/18/opinions/mahers-shameful-mainstreaming-of-yiannopoulos/index.html |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=CNN |language=en}} He has blamed Islam, not just extremist groups and terrorists, for violence against women and homosexuals. Yiannopoulos said "I'm not talking about Islamists. I'm not talking about terrorists. I'm not talking about radical Islam. I'm talking about mainstream Muslim culture".{{Cite web |date=13 June 2016 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos: Islam Is The Problem |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/milo-yianopoulos-islam-is-the-problem/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=CBS News Philadelphia |language=en-US}}
Following the June 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, he claimed that all of Islam, not simply a small group of radicals, was responsible for mistreating women and homosexuals.{{cite web |last=Zeoli |first=Rich |date=13 June 2016 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos: Islam Is The Problem |url=https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2016/06/13/milo-yianopoulos-islam-is-the-problem/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306112735/https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2016/06/13/milo-yianopoulos-islam-is-the-problem/ |archive-date=6 March 2019 |access-date=8 February 2019 |publisher=CBS News Philadelphia}} After Yiannopoulos was nominated to become to be the rector of the University of Glasgow, Milo said he would protect LGBT students by shutting down the Muslim Students Association.{{Cite web |date=2017-03-17 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos has sparked outrage for calling for a Muslim group ban at a top UK university |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/milo-yiannopoulos-rector-glasgow-university-muslim-uni-group-ban-a7633936.html |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=The Independent |language=en}} Shortly after the Manchester Arena bombing, Yiannopoulos strongly criticised singer Ariana Grande, characterising her as pro-Islam and saying, "Sadly, Ariana Grande is too stupid to wise up and warn her European fans about the real threats to their freedom and their lives. She will remain ferociously pro-immigrant, pro-Islam and anti-America. Makes you wonder whether they bombed to attack her or in solidarity".{{Cite web |title=Milo Yiannopoulos slams Ariana Grande for being 'pro-Islam' after Manchester bombing |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/milo-yiannopoulos-slams-ariana-grande-pro-islam-article-1.3189818 |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=New York Daily News |date=23 May 2017}}
He has been described as a counter-jihadist, and spoke alongside notable members of the movement such as Pamela Geller and Geert Wilders at the Gays for Trump "Wake Up!" party in the aftermath of the Orlando attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/13/14559822/trump-islam-muslims-islamophobia-sharia |title=Trump's counter-jihad |first=Zack |last=Beauchamp |work=Vox |date=February 13, 2017}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bq-IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT342 |title=Soldiers of a Different God: How the Counter-Jihad Movement Created Mayhem, Murder and the Trump Presidency |first=Christopher |last=Othen |pages=280–281, 342 |year=2018 |publisher=Amberley |isbn=9781445678009}}{{cite book |chapter-url=https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/73932933/Framing_Muslim_Integration.pdf |first=Ed |last=Pertwee |year=2017 |chapter=Islamophobia across borders |editor-first1=F. |editor-last1=Elahi |editor-first2=O. |editor-last2=Khan |title=Islamophobia: Still a challenge for us all |publisher=University of Manchester |page=58}}
Yiannopoulos described social attitudes of Western Muslims as "horribly regressive". He has attempted to distinguish his opposition to Muslim immigration into the West from racism.{{cite web |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/from-racism-to-gay-rights-milo-yiannopoulos-speaks-at-parliament-after-labor-greens-try-to-ban-him |title=From racism to gay rights: Milo Yiannopoulos speaks at Parliament after Labor, Greens try to ban him |last=Elton-Pym |first=James |date=5 December 2017 |publisher=SBS News |access-date=8 February 2018 |archive-date=7 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207085324/https://www.sbs.com.au/news/from-racism-to-gay-rights-milo-yiannopoulos-speaks-at-parliament-after-labor-greens-try-to-ban-him |url-status=live}} After the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, Yiannopoulos said that he condemned the violence but wrote on Facebook that attacks like that happen "because the establishment panders to and mollycoddles extremist leftism and barbaric, alien religious cultures". He was criticised for this description and banned from making a forthcoming speaking tour in Australia in 2019.{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/5552976/milo-yiannopoulos-banned-australia/ |title=Conservative Commentator Milo Yiannopoulos Not Allowed in Australia After New Zealand Mosque Shooting Comments |last=Adam |first=Shamin |date=16 March 2019 |magazine=Time |access-date=16 March 2019 |archive-date=16 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190316215040/http://time.com/5552976/milo-yiannopoulos-banned-australia/ |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/milo-yiannopoulos-banned-australia-christchurch-a8826246.html |title=Australia bans Milo Yiannopoulos in wake of Christchurch massacre |last=Harvard |first=Sarah |date=16 March 2019 |website=The Independent |language=en |access-date=19 March 2019 |archive-date=30 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430141844/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/milo-yiannopoulos-banned-australia-christchurch-a8826246.html |url-status=live}}
=Women and feminism=
Yiannopoulos is a frequent critic of feminism and "dumpy lesbians". He has frequently written articles that have been criticised as misogynistic. In a Breitbart article titled "Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy", he asserts that the combined oral contraceptive pill causes women to become hysterical, sexually promiscuous and obese. He declared his birthday "World Patriarchy Day". In 2016, Yiannopoulos published a Breitbart article entitled "Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism Or Cancer?"{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/12/28/leave-the-lesbians-out-of-it-who-wants-to-edit-milo-yiannopoulos/?noredirect=on |title='Leave the lesbians out of it': Who wants to edit Milo Yiannopoulos? |last=Wemple |first=Erik |date=28 December 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=5 December 2018 |archive-date=6 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200306044032/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/12/28/leave-the-lesbians-out-of-it-who-wants-to-edit-milo-yiannopoulos/?noredirect=on |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}Women and feminism:
- {{cite magazine |last1=Sherman |first1=Elisabeth |title=Birth control makes women unattractive, says Alt-Right gay icon Milo |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/pictures/10-most-despicable-stories-breitbart-published-under-bannon-w452226/birth-control-makes-women-unattractive-says-alt-right-gay-icon-milo-w452236 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=23 November 2016 |access-date=6 November 2017 |archive-date=7 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107023427/http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/pictures/10-most-despicable-stories-breitbart-published-under-bannon-w452226/birth-control-makes-women-unattractive-says-alt-right-gay-icon-milo-w452236 |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.theintelligencer.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Steve-Bannon-and-Daddy-Trump-Silent-on-Milo-10949049.php |title=Steve Bannon and 'Daddy' Trump Silent on Milo Meltdown Over Pedophilia Comments |last=Hod |first=Itay |date=21 February 2017 |publisher=The Intelligencer |access-date=15 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215215902/https://www.theintelligencer.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Steve-Bannon-and-Daddy-Trump-Silent-on-Milo-10949049.php |archive-date=15 February 2019}}
He describes feminists as "easy to wind up", is critical of the idea of a gender pay gap and claims that feminism has become "a mean, vindictive, sociopathic, man-hating movement". Yiannopoulos favours banning women from military combat units.{{cite web |url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/national-govt--politics/yiannopoulos-doesn-hold-back-transsexuals-women-military-more/LQVODOqoGNcZPRbbpsxwBO/ |title=Yiannopoulos doesn't hold back on transgender rights, women in military, more |last=Mitchell |first=Conner |date=31 July 2017 |work=The Palm Beach Post |access-date=5 February 2019 |archive-date=30 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130000041/https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/national-govt--politics/yiannopoulos-doesn-hold-back-transsexuals-women-military-more/LQVODOqoGNcZPRbbpsxwBO/ |url-status=live}}
In January 2018, Yiannopoulos reported a fictitious news story, written by a spoof news site, as being true. The article claimed that an English High Court had ruled that the National Health Service was legally obliged to offer cervical smear tests to men. Unaware the story was satirical in nature, Yiannopoulos argued that the story exemplified the thinking of those living in "feminist clown world". Before reading out the article verbatim, Yiannopoulos insisted that he had researched the story and promised that "this is real, I haven't just made this up".Spoof news reported as fact:
- {{Cite news |url=http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/kent-contraversialist-falls-for-spoof-158592/ |title=Kent 'celebrity' mocked for falling for spoof news article |date=16 January 2018 |work=Kent Online |access-date=19 January 2018 |archive-date=18 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118234056/http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/kent-contraversialist-falls-for-spoof-158592/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |last=Southend News Network |title=Milo Yiannopoulos falls for our FAKE news story LIVE ON AIR |date=17 January 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FncNrlxxMUk |access-date=19 January 2018 |ref=none |archive-date=20 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420234223/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FncNrlxxMUk&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live}}
=Homosexuality=
In October 2017, he married his husband in Hawaii. That same month, he came out against the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, arguing it would violate religious freedom.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/07/26/trumps-lgbt-supporters-defend-him-after-surprise-military-transgender-ban/?noredirect=on |title=Trump's 'LGBT rights' promises were tied to war on 'radical Islam' |last=Weigel |first=David |author-link=David Weigel |date=26 July 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=8 February 2019 |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002070710/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/07/26/trumps-lgbt-supporters-defend-him-after-surprise-military-transgender-ban/?noredirect=on |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}{{cite web |url=https://www.intomore.com/culture/newlywed-milo-yiannopoulos-wants-australians-to-vote-against-his-samesex-marriage |title=Newlywed Milo Yiannopoulos Wants Australians to Vote Against His Same-Sex Marriage |website=INTOmore.com |date=24 October 2017 |access-date=29 January 2019 |archive-date=30 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130053103/https://www.intomore.com/culture/newlywed-milo-yiannopoulos-wants-australians-to-vote-against-his-samesex-marriage |url-status=live}}
In 2017, Yiannopoulos reiterated his belief that homosexuality is a sin and denounced those (including clergy) who sought to change Church dogma on the issue. "You don't see me disputing the Church's teachings on homosexuality ... I wouldn't dream of demanding that the Church throw away her hard truths just to lie to me in hopes I'll feel better about myself", he said.{{cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/2017/10/14/16468878/milo-yiannopoulos-trash-talks-pope-in-catholic-magazine-interview |title=Milo Yiannopoulos trash-talks pope in Catholic magazine interview |date=14 October 2017 |work=Vox |access-date=4 November 2017 |archive-date=4 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104023504/https://www.vox.com/2017/10/14/16468878/milo-yiannopoulos-trash-talks-pope-in-catholic-magazine-interview |url-status=live}} In August 2019, Yiannopoulos was grand marshal for a straight pride parade in Boston, organised by a group called Super Happy Fun America. The parade was ostensibly to celebrate heterosexuality.{{Cite web |last=Barnes |first=Luke |date=18 May 2018 |title=Exclusive: Leaks show how Boston 'free speech' group acts as a front for far-right organizing |url=https://thinkprogress.org/resist-marxism-front-for-far-right-organizing-9bd959325ae1/ |access-date=5 May 2020 |website=ThinkProgress |language=en-US}}{{cite web |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/447553-milo-yiannopoulos-named-marshal-for-straight-pride-parade/ |title=Milo Yiannopoulos named marshal for 'Straight Pride' parade |last=Gstalter |first=Morgan |date=7 June 2019 |work=The Hill |access-date=9 June 2019 |archive-date=9 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609012550/https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/447553-milo-yiannopoulos-named-marshal-for-straight-pride-parade |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Wilson |first1=Jason |date=8 June 2019 |title='Straight pride' parade organizer has held and attended far-right events |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/07/straight-pride-parade-organizer-cheers-media-attention-but-event-is-uncertain |url-status=live |access-date=10 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610004019/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/07/straight-pride-parade-organizer-cheers-media-attention-but-event-is-uncertain |archive-date=10 June 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Garrison |first1=Joey |title=Boston's Straight Pride Parade draws hundreds of marchers and even more counter protesters |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/31/bostons-straight-pride-parade-here-after-months-debate/2167020001/ |access-date=31 August 2019 |work=USA Today |date=31 August 2019 |language=en |archive-date=31 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831171616/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/31/bostons-straight-pride-parade-here-after-months-debate/2167020001/ |url-status=live}}
In March 2021, Yiannopoulos declared to the LifeSiteNews website that he was an ex-gay and would begin advocating on behalf of improving the public image of gay conversion therapy.{{Cite web |last=Montgomery |first=Blake |date=10 March 2021 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos Desperately Declares Himself 'Ex-Gay,' Says His New Mission Is Conversion Therapy |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/milo-yiannopoulos-desperately-declares-himself-ex-gay-says-his-new-mission-is-conversion-therapy |access-date=10 March 2021 |website=The Daily Beast |language=en |url-access=limited}}{{cite news |last=Spocchia |first=Gino |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/milo-yiannopoulos-ex-gay-b1815296.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220514/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/milo-yiannopoulos-ex-gay-b1815296.html |archive-date=14 May 2022 |url-access=registration |url-status=live |title=Milo Yiannopoulos declares himself ex-gay and says he's 'demoted' husband to housemate in bizarre new interview |work=The Independent |location=London |date=10 March 2021 |access-date=6 June 2021}} In June 2021, Yiannopoulos announced that he was fundraising for a gay conversion therapy centre in Florida.{{Cite web |date=22 June 2021 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos is savaged online after moving to Florida to fundraise for 'gay conversion therapy' center |url=https://www.indy100.com/news/milo-yiannopoulos-florida-gay-conversion-b1870834 |access-date=28 June 2021 |website=Indy100 |language=en}}
Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant
In January 2016, Yiannopoulos set up his Privilege Grant for white men to balance scholarships for women and minorities. He participated in an online telethon to raise money for the grant and in August 2016, reported that approximately $100,000 had been received in donations and a further $250,000 had been pledged.
In August 2016, it was revealed that over a quarter of a million dollars had gone missing from the Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant. Yiannopoulos apologised for mismanaging the grant and denied that he had spent the money. In March 2018, Yiannopoulos confirmed that the fund had been closed down.Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant:
- {{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/news-blog/2016/aug/19/milo-yiannopoulos-denies-spending-privilege-fund |title=Where's the money? Milo Yiannopoulos denies he spent cash for charity fund |work=The Guardian |date=19 August 2016 |access-date=20 August 2016 |first=Rory |last=Carroll |archive-date=20 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820020700/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/news-blog/2016/aug/19/milo-yiannopoulos-denies-spending-privilege-fund |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |title=Privilege Grant news |url=https://privilegegrant.com/news/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112211258/https://privilegegrant.com/news/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 November 2016 |website=privilegegrant.com |access-date=8 May 2017}}
- Zadrozny, Brandy (29 March 2018). "[https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/milo-yiannopoulos-charity-white-boys-winds-down-mystery-remains-over-n860756 Milo Yiannopoulos' charity for 'white boys' winds down as mystery remains over the $100,000 raised] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804050424/https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/milo-yiannopoulos-charity-white-boys-winds-down-mystery-remains-over-n860756 |date=4 August 2018 }}", NBC News. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
Debt
In December 2018, his former Australian tour promoters, Australian Events Management, showed that Yiannopoulos had accrued more than $2 million in unpaid debt: $1.6 million to his own company, $400,000 to the Mercer Family Foundation, $153,215 to his former lawyers, $76,574 to former collaborator and Breitbart writer Allum Bokhari, and $20,000 to the luxury brand Cartier.{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Jason |title=Milo Yiannopoulos 'more than $2m in debt', Australian promoters' documents show |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/03/milo-yiannopoulos-more-than-2m-in-debt-australian-promoters-documents-show |work=The Guardian |date=3 December 2018 |access-date=4 December 2018 |archive-date=3 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203221517/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/03/milo-yiannopoulos-more-than-2m-in-debt-australian-promoters-documents-show |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last=Sakzewski |first=Emily |date=7 December 2018 |title=Patreon bans controversial (and broke) far-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-07/patreon-bans-controversial-far-right-activist-milo-yiannopoulos/10595788 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207134415/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-07/patreon-bans-controversial-far-right-activist-milo-yiannopoulos/10595788 |archive-date=7 December 2018 |access-date=8 December 2018 |website=ABC News}}
Kanye West campaign
In 2022, Yiannopoulos briefly worked with rapper Kanye West on his 2024 presidential election campaign.{{Cite magazine |author1=Wade, Peter |author2=Legaspi, Althea |date=December 4, 2022 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos fired from Kanye West campaign |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/milo-yiannopoulos-fired-kanye-west-campaign-1234641266/ |magazine=Rolling Stone}} Yiannopoulos claimed that he arranged the well-publicised November 2022 dinner between Trump, West and far-right commentator Nick Fuentes to "make Trump's life miserable". "I also wanted to send a message to Trump that he has systematically repeatedly neglected, ignored, abused the people who love him the most, the people who put him in office, and that kind of behavior comes back to bite you in the end,” he said.{{cite web |last=Gabbatt |first=Adam |date=30 November 2022 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos claims he set up Fuentes dinner 'to make Trump's life miserable' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/30/milo-yiannopoulos-nick-fuentes-donald-trump-dinner |access-date=16 December 2022 |website=TheGuardian.com}} In March 2023, Yiannopoulos published material on his Telegram channel about Stop the Steal founder Ali Alexander, who had also worked on the Kanye West campaign. Yiannopoulos alleged that Alexander had been propositioning teenage boys for sex and soliciting sexually-explicit photographs and videos from them.{{cite web |last=Sommer |first=Will |date=April 17, 2023 |title='Stop the Steal' Organizer Apologizes After Being Accused of Asking Teen Boys for D*ck Pics |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/stop-the-steal-organizer-ali-alexander-apologizes-after-being-accused-of-asking-teen-boys-for-sexual-pics |website=The Daily Beast |url-access=limited}}{{cite web |last=Stieb |first=Matt |date=April 17, 2023 |title=The Far Right Is Roiled by an Underage-Sex Scandal |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/ali-alexander-accused-of-soliciting-nudes-from-teens.html |website=Intelligencer}} In May 2023, Yiannopoulos was rehired by West to run his campaign.{{cite web |title=MILO YIANNOPOULOS BACK LEADING YE24 CAMPAIGN ... Nick Fuentes Booted |url=https://www.tmz.com/2023/05/04/kanye-west-milo-yinnapolous-ye24-director-political-operations-nick-fuentes/ |website=TMZ |date=4 May 2023 |access-date=10 June 2023}}
Books
- {{Cite book |title=Dangerous |year=2017 |publisher=Threshold Editions |isbn=978-0-692-89344-9}}
- {{Cite book |title=Diabolical: How Pope Francis Has Betrayed Clerical Abuse Victims Like Me—And Why He Has to Go |year=2018 |publisher=Bombardier Books |isbn=9781642931631}}
- How to Be Poor. 2019. {{ISBN|978-9527303535}}
- How to Be Straight. 2019. {{ISBN|978-9527303566}}
- Middle Rages: Why the Battle for Medieval Studies Matters to America. 2019. {{ISBN|978-9527303559}}
- The Trial of Roger Stone. 2020. {{ISBN|978-9527303597}}
Forewords
- SJWs Always Lie—Taking Down the Thought Police. 2015. Castalia Press. {{ISBN|9789527065686}}
- Forbidden Thoughts. 2017. Subversive Press. {{ISBN|0994516347}}
- No Campus for White Men: The Transformation of Higher Education into Hateful Indoctrination. 2017. WND Books. {{ISBN|1944229620}}
- Jordanetics: A Journey into the Mind of Humanity's Greatest Thinker. 2018. Castelia Press. {{ISBN|9527065690}}
References
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- {{cite web |last1=Lorenz |first1=Taylor |title=Instagram and Facebook Ban Far-Right Extremists |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/05/instagram-and-facebook-ban-far-right-extremists/588607/ |website=The Atlantic |date=2 May 2019 |publisher=Emerson Collective |access-date=14 July 2019 |archive-date=3 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503004014/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/05/instagram-and-facebook-ban-far-right-extremists/588607/ |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}
- {{cite web |last1=Waterson |first1=Jim |last2=Paul |first2=Kari |title=Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos and other far-right figures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/02/facebook-ban-alex-jones-milo-yiannopoulos |website=The Guardian |date=2 May 2019 |publisher=The Guardian`` |access-date=14 July 2019 |archive-date=4 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704220451/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/02/facebook-ban-alex-jones-milo-yiannopoulos |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |last1=Wagner |first1=Kurt |title=Facebook Bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Other Far-Right Figures |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-02/facebook-bans-alex-jones-yiannopoulos-other-far-right-figures |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |date=2 May 2019 |publisher=Bloomberg Inc. |access-date=14 July 2019 |archive-date=24 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624131254/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-02/facebook-bans-alex-jones-yiannopoulos-other-far-right-figures |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |last1=Dwoskin |first1=Elizabeth |title=Facebook bans far-right leaders including Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos |url=https://www.smh.com.au/technology/facebook-bans-far-right-leaders-including-alex-jones-milo-yiannopoulos-20190503-p51jmg.html |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=2 May 2019 |publisher=Nine |access-date=14 July 2019 |archive-date=14 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190714075807/https://www.smh.com.au/technology/facebook-bans-far-right-leaders-including-alex-jones-milo-yiannopoulos-20190503-p51jmg.html |url-status=live}}
- {{Cite web |last=Tuccille |first=J.D. |date=7 February 2017 |title=Thugs Indulge Their Weimar Dreams and Become the Totalitarians They Claim to Hate |url=https://reason.com/2017/02/07/thugs-indulge-their-weimar-dreams-and-be/ |access-date=29 April 2021 |website=Reason |language=en-US}}
- {{Cite news |last1=Allen |first1=Nick |last2=Henderson |first2=Barney |last3=Graham |first3=Chris |date=2 February 2017 |title=Trump threatens to pull funding from UC Berkeley |language=en-GB |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/02/donald-trump-threatens-cut-funding-uc-berkeley-cancels-far-right/#update-20170202-1224 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202123328/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/02/donald-trump-threatens-cut-funding-uc-berkeley-cancels-far-right/ |archive-date=2 February 2017 |url-status=live |access-date=29 April 2021 |issn=0307-1235 |url-access=limited}}
The original article and the video of Yiannopoulos singing America the Beautiful while neo-Nazi's give the Nazi salute:
- {{cite news |last=Bernstein |first=Joseph |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism |title=Alt-White: How the Breitbart Machine laundered Racist Hate |work=BuzzFeed News |date=5 October 2017 |access-date=6 October 2017 |archive-date=6 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006000933/https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism |url-status=live}}
A review of the Buzzfeed article from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism:
- {{cite web |last1=Kassel |first1=Mathew |title=The beat reporter behind BuzzFeed's blockbuster alt-right investigation |url=https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/buzzfeed-milo-bannon-right-wing.php |website=Columbia Journalism Review |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=17 December 2018 |archive-date=26 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226020853/https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/buzzfeed-milo-bannon-right-wing.php |url-status=live}}
Abridged list of articles that claim Yiannopoulos is either a neo-Nazi, consorts with them or is inspired by Nazi's, white supremacists etc.:
- {{cite news |last1=Butler |first1=Josh |title=How Australia Is Trying To Normalise Milo Yiannopoulos After Nazi Links |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/10/10/how-australia-is-trying-to-normalise-milo-yiannopoulos-after-nazi-links_a_23236755/ |website=Huff Post |date=11 October 2017 |publisher=Oath Inc.(Verizon Communications) |access-date=15 December 2018 |archive-date=15 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215122107/https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/10/10/how-australia-is-trying-to-normalise-milo-yiannopoulos-after-nazi-links_a_23236755/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |last1=Sparrow |first1=Jeff |title=Bad things don't vanish when you look away. Don't ignore Milo Yiannopoulos |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/11/bad-things-dont-vanish-when-you-look-away-dont-ignore-milo-yiannopoulos |work=The Guardian |date=10 October 2017 |access-date=15 December 2018 |archive-date=15 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215122443/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/11/bad-things-dont-vanish-when-you-look-away-dont-ignore-milo-yiannopoulos |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Nick |title=Milo Yiannopoulos tried to troll a Jewish journalist with Nazi symbols but it backfired on him |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/24/milo-yiannopoulos-tried-troll-jewish-journalist-nazi-symbols-it-backfired-him |website=Southern Poverty Law Centre |date=24 June 2018 |access-date=15 December 2018 |archive-date=10 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210124130/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/24/milo-yiannopoulos-tried-troll-jewish-journalist-nazi-symbols-it-backfired-him |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |author=Toi Staff |title=PayPal suspends Milo Yiannopoulos over Nazi-based trolling of Jewish journalist |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/paypal-suspends-milo-yiannopoulos-over-nazi-based-trolling-of-jewish-journalist/ |work=The Times of Israel |access-date=15 December 2018 |archive-date=7 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207040255/http://www.timesofisrael.com/paypal-suspends-milo-yiannopoulos-over-nazi-based-trolling-of-jewish-journalist/ |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |last1=Young |first1=Stephen |title=Meet the Dallas Bartender Who Kicked Milo Yiannopoulos and Some Neo-Nazis Out of Her Bar |url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/interview-with-bartender-who-kicked-milo-yiannopoulos-out-of-karaoke-9948271 |website=Dallas Observer |date=6 October 2017 |access-date=15 December 2018 |archive-date=11 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211135207/https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/interview-with-bartender-who-kicked-milo-yiannopoulos-out-of-karaoke-9948271 |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |last1=Brennan |first1=Christopher |title=Milo Yiannopoulos coordinated work with neo-Nazis: report |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/milo-yiannopoulos-coordinated-work-neo-nazis-report-article-1.3544830 |website=Daily News |date=6 October 2017 |publisher=Tribune Publishing |access-date=15 December 2018 |archive-date=15 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215130757/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/milo-yiannopoulos-coordinated-work-neo-nazis-report-article-1.3544830 |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |last1=Malone Kircher |first1=Madison |title=4 Key Takeaways From the Monster Milo Yiannopoulos Document Leak |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/4-key-takeaways-from-the-monster-milo-yiannopoulos-leak.html |website=New York |date=6 October 2017 |publisher=New York Media |access-date=17 December 2018 |archive-date=17 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217110542/http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/4-key-takeaways-from-the-monster-milo-yiannopoulos-leak.html |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |last1=Begley |first1=Patrick |title=Alt-right speaker Milo Yiannopoulos seeks to 'reveal hypocrisy through ridicule' |url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/altright-speaker-milo-yiannopoulos-seeks-to-reveal-hypocrisy-through-ridicule-20171009-gywu1r.html |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=9 October 2017 |access-date=17 December 2018 |archive-date=17 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217110708/https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/altright-speaker-milo-yiannopoulos-seeks-to-reveal-hypocrisy-through-ridicule-20171009-gywu1r.html |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |last1=Mindcock |first1=Clark |title=Milo Yiannopoulos filmed singing 'America the Beautiful' while white nationalists gave Nazi salutes |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yiannopoulos-nazi-salutes-video-karaoke-richard-spencer-white-nationalists-karaoke-bar-a7987486.html |website=The Independent |date=7 October 2017 |publisher=Independent Print Limited |access-date=17 December 2018 |archive-date=17 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217112143/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yiannopoulos-nazi-salutes-video-karaoke-richard-spencer-white-nationalists-karaoke-bar-a7987486.html |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |last1=Garcia |first1=Catherine |title=Leaked emails show how Milo Yiannopoulos worked with Stephen Bannon, alt-right to transform Breitbart |url=https://theweek.com/speedreads/729269/leaked-emails-show-how-milo-yiannopoulos-worked-stephen-bannon-altright-transform-breitbart |website=The Week |date=6 October 2017 |publisher=Dennis Publishing (UK edition) The Week Publications (US edition) |access-date=17 December 2018 |archive-date=30 October 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20191030202359/https://theweek.com/speedreads/729269/leaked-emails-show-how-milo-yiannopoulos-worked-stephen-bannon-altright-transform-breitbart |url-status=live}}
- {{cite web |last1=Savage |first1=Dan |title=Remember Milo Yiannopoulos? |url=https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/04/23/26084997/remember-milo-yiannopoulos |website=the Stranger |publisher=Index Newspapers |access-date=17 December 2018 |archive-date=11 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611095759/https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/04/23/26084997/remember-milo-yiannopoulos |url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |last1=West |first1=Lindy |title=America Loves Plausible Deniability |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/opinion/sunday/milo-yiannopoulos-white-nationalism.html |website=The New York Times |date=14 October 2017 |access-date=17 December 2018 |archive-date=17 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217062907/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/opinion/sunday/milo-yiannopoulos-white-nationalism.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}}}
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Category:Far-right politics in the United Kingdom
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Category:People educated at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys
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