What’s Attracting Gay Men to the Fascist, White Nationalist Alt-Right? By Donna Minkowitz, Sla
What’s Attracting Gay Men to the Fascist, White Nationalist Alt-Right? By Donna Minkowitz, Slate.com, June 5, 2017At the National Policy Institute’s 2015 conference, alt-right star Richard Spencer’s annual Nazi-fest, a speaker named Jack Donovan exhorted the crowd “to leave the world the way you entered it, kicking and screaming and covered in somebody else’s blood.” The same year, in the pages of the The Occidental Observer, one of the most prominent white nationalist webzines, another alt-righter, James J. O’Meara, held forth about how “behind the Negro, hidden away, as always, is the darker, more sinister figure of the Judeo. The Negro is the shock troop. The Jew is the ultimate beneficiary.” Aside from being open fascists and “white racialists,” Donovan and O’Meara have another thing in common: They’re both out gay men. … (One of the author’s Facebook friends) a politically liberal gay man I’ll call Frank, is a fan of Donovan’s Facebook page "because of the visuals. I like his looks—I mean, he’s bald with tattoos. He really exudes a lot of sex.” Frank also likes that Donovan “trashes that whole gay club scene,” which Frank finds conformist and alienating. Read more at Slate. -- source link