Out Magazine glorifies fountain of shit-spewing, Milo Yiannopoulos


ThinkProgress has an open letter addressed to Out Magazine over its soft-ball profile of the alt right’s deep-fried-awful-battered-in-bullshit posterboy, Milo Yiannopoulos.

We are all painfully aware that gay, white, cisgender male narratives have too-long dominated queer media, including those of us who are ourselves gay, white, cisgender men. Just this week, we saw our sisters at AfterEllen.com have to cease editorial operations because a company decided that lesbians were not profitable enough — oblivious to how many bi and lesbian women found important community there. The excess of this narrow branding of the queer community results in erasure of all those who are not highlighted, an erasure that allows stereotypes, discrimination, and abuse to continue unabated against those invisible intersections.

The Out profile of Yiannopoulos represents the peak of this harm. Here is awhite 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.

As members of the LGBT media, we believe we all must hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. Many of us are members of the LGBT community ourselves, and we all develop content that serves the LGBT community either directly as an audience, or on its behalf by educating broader audiences about our politics and our cultures. We thus have an obligation, at a minimum, to ensure that what we publish — no matter how crass or sensationalized it may be — avoids fostering harm to queer people. Out failed in this regard.

Add my name to the list of signatories. Fucker couldn’t lose access to his internet fast enough. May every microphone he bloviate into break before he gets the chance to speak.

-Shiv

Comments

  1. says

    Why, why WHY do people think it’s OK to do this? Did they think that shit was OK 5 years ago or did or was it really a major shift that happened all over the western world?
    Also, I swear cis white gay men are even worse than cis white straight women.

  2. Siobhan says

    Also, I swear cis white gay men are even worse than cis white straight women.

    It’s fierce competition, at least. :/

  3. Raucous Indignation says

    How does that shit stain of an ignoramus get any reputable media outlet to give him a platform?

  4. Kreator says

    Also, I swear cis white gay men are even worse than cis white straight women.

    MISANDRY!!! No, wait… MISOGYNY!!! I mean… (thinks heavily) …YOUR THE REAL RACIST!!1!!!1! (self-satisfied expression)

  5. says

    Raucous Indignation@#2:
    How does that shit stain of an ignoramus get any reputable media outlet to give him a platform?

    He’s rich. He probably has PR people.
    Money changes even the lowliest douchebag into, well, a sow’s ear.