57 Facts About Milo Yiannopoulos

Milo Yiannopoulos is a British far-right political commentator.

In 2022, Milo Yiannopoulos served as an intern for United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, then worked with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West on the latter's short-lived 2024 US presidential election campaign.

Milo Yiannopoulos's father is of half-Greek and half-Irish ancestry and his mother is Jewish, of German descent.

Milo Yiannopoulos attended the University of Manchester but dropped out before graduating; he then read English at Wolfson College, Cambridge, but was expelled in 2010.

In 2017, Milo Yiannopoulos was a US resident alien on O-1 visa status.

Milo Yiannopoulos married his long term boyfriend in Hawaii in September 2017.

In March 2021, during an interview with right wing publication LifeSiteNews, Milo Yiannopoulos stated he was no longer homosexual and that his husband had been "demoted to housemate".

In 2009, Milo Yiannopoulos moved to technology journalism with The Daily Telegraph.

In June 2022, Milo Yiannopoulos became an unpaid intern for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

In March 2013, The Kernel was shut down amidst allegations of unpaid wages, at a time when Milo Yiannopoulos was editor in chief and sole director of its parent company, Sentinel Media.

In 2014, Milo Yiannopoulos started writing for Breitbart News, and in October 2015, Breitbart placed Milo Yiannopoulos in charge of its new "Breitbart Tech" section.

In 2014, Milo Yiannopoulos emerged as a "lead actor" in the Gamergate harassment campaign through his work at Breitbart, becoming one of the most vocal of Gamergate's supporters.

Milo Yiannopoulos employed Gamergate as a basis for online attacks on women, and his role in Gamergate allowed him to become one of the central figures in the mainstream growth of the alt-right.

Milo Yiannopoulos criticised Yiannopoulos's attempts to distinguish between real racist or bigoted behaviour and trolling, stating that "words have meaning" and that the distinction that Yiannopoulos was attempting to make "simply doesn't exist in objective reality".

In 2017, Yiannopoulos was depicted singing "America the Beautiful" at a karaoke bar, where a crowd of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, including Richard B Spencer, cheered him with the Nazi sieg heil salute.

Milo Yiannopoulos was then banned by Twitter for what the company cited as "inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others".

Milo Yiannopoulos later stated that he was banned because of his conservative beliefs.

Milo Yiannopoulos has had visas denied or cancelled on multiple occasions.

In January 2017, Milo Yiannopoulos spoke at the University of Washington.

On 1 February 2017, Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to make a speech at UC Berkeley.

In November 2017, Milo Yiannopoulos began a tour of Australia, visiting Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth.

Milo Yiannopoulos claimed the violence was caused by "the left, showing up, being violent to stop freedom of speech".

In May 2017, Milo Yiannopoulos announced that he would self-publish the book on 4 July 2017.

Milo Yiannopoulos stated: "The main purpose of writing this new book was to talk about the homosexual cancer that has infected the Vatican".

Milo Yiannopoulos promoted the book through Michael Voris, a traditionalist Catholic, celibate bisexual and anti-LGBT activist.

Milo Yiannopoulos's self-published books How to Be Poor and How to Be Straight were released in 2019.

Milo Yiannopoulos wrote The Trial of Roger Stone and Middle Rages: Why the Battle for Medieval Studies Matters to America, which discussed controversies surrounding Rachel Fulton Brown, a professor of medieval studies at the University of Chicago.

Milo Yiannopoulos used his own experience as an example, saying he was mature enough to be capable of giving consent at a young age.

Milo Yiannopoulos subsequently held a press conference, at which he said he had been molested as a child, and that his comments were a way to cope with it.

Milo Yiannopoulos declined to identify his abusers or discuss the incidents in any detail.

Milo Yiannopoulos reiterated that he does not "advocate for any illegal behavior" or excuse it.

Milo Yiannopoulos said there was a "huge, disproportionate overlap between homosexual men and paedophiles".

In 2018, Milo Yiannopoulos told at least two news organisations who had requested comments that he wanted vigilantes to shoot journalists.

Milo Yiannopoulos wrote in a text message "I can't wait for vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight".

Two days later, following a shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, in which five people were killed, Milo Yiannopoulos denied that his comments were responsible, adding that his remarks were a joke.

Milo Yiannopoulos later posted on Instagram that he sent the messages to troll journalists.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a frequent critic of Islam and has said the "fear of Islam is entirely rational".

Milo Yiannopoulos has blamed Islam, not just extremist groups and terrorists, for violence against women and homosexuals.

Milo Yiannopoulos described social attitudes of Western Muslims as "horribly regressive".

Milo Yiannopoulos has attempted to distinguish his opposition to Muslim immigration into the West from racism.

Milo Yiannopoulos was criticised for this description and banned from making a forthcoming speaking tour in Australia in 2019.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a frequent critic of feminism and "dumpy lesbians".

Milo Yiannopoulos has frequently written articles that have been criticised as misogynistic.

Milo Yiannopoulos describes feminists as "easy to wind up", is critical of the idea of a gender pay gap and claims that feminism has become "a mean, vindictive, sociopathic, man-hating movement".

In January 2018, Milo Yiannopoulos reported a fictitious news story, written by a spoof news site, as being true.

Unaware the story was satirical in nature, Milo Yiannopoulos argued that the story exemplified the thinking of those living in "feminist clown world".

In 2017, Milo Yiannopoulos reiterated his belief that homosexuality is a sin and denounced those who sought to change Church dogma on the issue.

In March 2021, Milo Yiannopoulos declared to the LifeSiteNews website that he was an ex-gay and would begin advocating on behalf of improving the public image of gay conversion therapy.

In June 2021, Milo Yiannopoulos announced that he was fundraising for a gay conversion therapy centre in Florida.

In January 2016, Milo Yiannopoulos set up his Privilege Grant for white men to balance scholarships for women and minorities.

Milo Yiannopoulos participated in an online telethon to raise money for the grant and in August 2016, reported that approximately $100,000 had been received in donations and a further $250,000 had been pledged.

Milo Yiannopoulos apologised for mismanaging the grant and denied that he had spent the money.

In March 2018, Milo Yiannopoulos confirmed that the fund had been closed down.

In 2022, Milo Yiannopoulos briefly worked with rapper Kanye West on his 2024 presidential election campaign.

Milo Yiannopoulos claimed that he arranged the well-publicised November 2022 dinner between Trump, West and far-right commentator Nick Fuentes to "make Trump's life miserable".

In March 2023, Milo Yiannopoulos published material on his Telegram channel about Stop the Steal founder Ali Alexander, who had worked on the Kanye West campaign.

In May 2023, Milo Yiannopoulos was rehired by West to run his campaign.