Milo Yiannopoulos and the Myth of the Gay Pedophile
The journalist’s comments suggest gay men enjoy sex with children—an idea that has been widely debunked.
by Olga Khazan
Feb 21, 2017
4 minutes
In the comment that cost him his book deal and speaker slot at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the Breitbart journalist and right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos defended “relationships in which those older men help those young boys to discover who they are.”
In the video, a clip of an old podcast episode that was tweeted this weekend by the group , Yiannopoulos says he isn’t defending pedophilia, before adding that “in the gay world, some of the most enriching ... relationships between younger boys and older men can be hugely positive experiences.” (Yiannopoulos saying when he was 17 he was in a relationship
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