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How do we resolve the paradox of a man declaring himself a "dangerous faggot" and becoming the sex symbol to a right-wing movement that repudiates homosexuality as deviant?
Milo Yiannapolous, the tech editor for the right-wing Breitbart news site, was notoriously banned from Twitter for starting an abusive Twitterstorm against African American actress Leslie Jones, and has become a poster boy for misogynist, racist, extreme right-wingers in the alt-right movement in the US. He presents himself as a transgressive queer, often dresses in drag, labels his tour of campuses (often sponsored by Young Republicans) the "Dangerous Faggots" tour, and has revealed the identity of immigrants and trans activists.
How someone can reconcile their queer identity with fascist politics has precedents in the semi-forgotten histories of fascist, militant masculinism that drew on homosexual erotics. But what makes Yiannopolous specifically a child of this era is that his ironic transgressiveness is accepted by the alt-right movement because it makes their platform seem edgy and exciting to their young - and perhaps apolitical, or politically naive - followers.