A New, More Insidious Form of Ex-Gayness
Milo Yiannopoulos is just one example.
Right-wing activist and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has recently called himself ex-gay or “sodomy-free”. In an interview with Life Site News, he said that he “was never at home in the gay lifestyle”. Rather, he “leaned into it” because “ it drove liberals crazy to see a handsome, charismatic, intelligent gay man riotously celebrating conservative principles”. Yiannopoulos dropped hints of his conversion in his book Dangerous and posting materials that said “X days without sodomy”.
He treats his gayness like an addiction to a drug in that his sexuality is still there, but he chooses to ignore it or work against it. During this time, he started counting days without sex as a “bulwark against sin”. He “slipped” one time in 250 days, which he considers a testament to how he responds to “micromanagement and accountability”. Yiannopoulos described his ex-gayness as more of a gradual uncovering than an all-at-once reveal. He even joked that the lack of spectacle was a sign that his gay impulses were fading.
Yiannopoulos has since consecrated his life to St. Joseph, the “father figure of the Holy Family” as a way to devote himself to a male protector figure and to reject the “terror of transsexuals”. He compared modern-day trans people to the castrated priests of…
