Download This The cavalcade of prominent anti-LGBT clergymen and politicians with a secret gay history seems 
endless; and yet, like unhappy families, each is special in his own way. The case of Michael Voris offers the added bonus that he was an early leader of the “ex-gay” movement who founded and, until recently, headed up the Catholic media company Church Militant. Needless to say, the spectacle of “ex-gay” leaders and hucksters getting busted in gay flagrante is a commonplace; usually it involves being spotted in a gay bar or cruising on Grindr. What cost Voris his position at Church Militant were multiple instances of sending shirtless selfies to his staff. An investigation by Restoring the Faith reported that Voris had “continually [texted]half-nude selfies to his young, single male employees.” Sure, uploading these photos to the Church Militant Dropbox could be chalked up to carelessness (oops!), but sending them to young men under his tutelage seems downright reckless—possibly worth the risk if it resulted in a hookup? And if indeed that was the objective, let the reader be the judge of how realistic these hopes may have been.
Reconcile This We may think we have a reasonable grasp of the men who made up the mob on January 6th, 2021—he’s a stereotypical Loser who doesn’t have a girlfriend and can’t hold down a job—but a recently convicted Proud Boy member doesn’t seem to compute. Steven Miles is a gay adult film actor who performs under the name Sergeant Miles, and he’s had a successful career with Lucas Entertainment, Falcon, Hot House, and Raging Stallion. To be sure, as a porn star he plays up the “gay thug” routine, but his sexual positioning could be described as “versatile.” What’s fascinating is that he tows the line completely in his Proud Boy role, going on about the “Deep State” and the stolen 2020 election, having sported a T-shirt on January 6th that read: “Trump 2020 Fuck Your Feelings.” His social media postings ooze with misogynistic comments about “feminazis and idiot Hillary supporters,” and he slammed the porn studios as “scared little bitches” for shutting down during the pandemic. And here is where he seems to be telling us something about the Proud Boys that we should heed. There seems to be little room for women in their movement, much less for the values of love and empathy that women represent. For Steven aka Sergeant Miles at least, the ability to toggle between Proud Boy and Pride Boy (of a sort) makes perfect sense.
Problem Solved January 6th was back in the news when conservative Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk discussed a hypothetical situation related to the insurrection: “If the insurrectionists had started a gay orgy instead of vandalizing the Capitol, attempting to kill elected officials, and beating police officers, none of them would have been prosecuted. … They should have stripped naked and filmed themselves having gay sex. That would have solved all the problems.” We need to understand the mindset that could conceivably find its way to this conclusion. He’s not just saying that homosexuality is so widely accepted that no one would have noticed it amid the chaos of the day. He’s suggesting that it’s so positively valued that engaging in it would actually have indemnified these actors from criticism and possibly from prosecution. Ah, well, one can imagine one of these Woke politicians sighing: “Surely if they were bad trespassers, they would not have taken the time to engage in such an upstanding activity!” It’s a weird little fantasy that seems apropos of nothing in particular, but if picturing male rioters getting it on in the Senate is what floats your whatever, sure, why not?
