February 15, 2017 | Sex & Society

Milo-lovin' gay writer comes out as a neo-con

Last year, Chadwick Moore (pictured, top) was taken to task for writing a profile on professional online troll Milo Yiannopoulos. The OUT magazine article was criticized as nothing more than a puff piece; cutesy pictures were sprinkled throughout an article that never challenged Yiannopoopiepants for his sexism, transphobia and online bullying. 

A coalition of LGBT journalists was quick to condemn the article. The group released an open letter that read, in part:

The Out Magazine profile of Milo Yiannopoulos a serious problem. It’s not because Yiannopoulos was mentioned, nor even because he was profiled. It’s because the profile negligently perpetuates harm against the LGBT community. We expect more from our colleagues.

 

Here is a white supremacist whose entire career has been built on the attention he can get for himself through provocation. His attacks against women, people of color, Muslims, transgender people, and basically anybody who doesn’t like him are as malicious as they come, and he catalyzes his many “alt-right” followers to turn on any target he deems worthy of abuse. This puff piece  -- complete with a cutesy clown photoshoot  -- makes light of Yiannopoulos’s trolling while simultaneously providing him a pedestal to further extend his brand of hatred. Indeed, he does so in the profile itself, openly slurring the transgender community, which Out published without any apparent concern.

"Our mission first and foremost is always journalistic," he said later. "It’s a great, top-notch profile piece. I think the writer clearly critiques Milo and lets Milo -- though he lets Milo speak for himself -- I think in a profile, it really is about the subject damning themselves. It’s not about having an opinionated piece."