Chadwick Moore, a journalist, claims he was living in a liberal bubble until he profiled Milo Yiannopoulos for Out Magazine in September.
As a Breitbart blogger and provocateur, Yiannopoulos is openly gay and very supportive of Donald Trump, even going so far as to refer to him as “daddy.” The viciousness of the online attacks that Yiannopoulos incited led to him being permanently banned from Twitter.
Moore was critical of Yiannopoulos but gave him a platform in his article, which also featured a photo shoot by a professional photographer. After its release, Moore came under fire from all corners to the point where he claims he was forced to reevaluate his political beliefs.
He made headlines earlier this month when the New York Post published a story about him with the headline “I’m a gay New Yorker and I’m coming out as conservative.”
Moore tells Steve Inskeep of NPR that he has lost respect for the left as a result of the personal attacks, which he says included being abandoned by his liberal friends.
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Chadwick Moore edits the magazine Outspoken. He writes a column for Spectator and is a contributing editor there as well. Moore, a well-known columnist, and journalist in the United States, also hosts a television show.
A lot of people are interested in him as a person and in his potential partners because of the attention he has received for his advocacy of LGBTQ rights.
The fact that more contributes a column to The Spectator every week has put him in the limelight. On Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, he appears frequently to discuss and analyze current events.
After calling opponents of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill “wacky,” the journalist has come under fire for making inaccuracies about LGBT+ activists.
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The unexpected result was a tightening in Moore’s stomach. A few years ago, he had openly told his progressive mother that he was gay. She currently calls Nashville home and has a strained relationship with both of her parents.
His father, on the other hand, was a strict cigar-smoking accountant, farmer, and hunter from Oskaloosa who added an extra layer of intimidation.
Moore, girding his loins, said, “Yeah, that’s true.”Gary remained quiet for a while. And I guess I’ll have to tell your boyfriends the same thing I tell your sister’s boyfriends, he shot back.
“Alienated And Frightened”
Moore recently moved to the liberal neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York. His dreams of becoming a novelist in college have been put on hold while he pursued a career as a journalist.
On September 21, the day of the divisive presidential election, his profile of Yiannopoulos appeared in the LGBT community’s journal, which reaches an audience of several hundred thousand.
The Breitbart editor had become notorious because of his controversial statements and the widespread protests that followed his visits to university campuses. Friends and strangers alike were quick to criticize Moore after he made his announcement.
Because of the potential for misinterpretation, the editors of the profile of Milo Yiannopoulos included a lengthy disclaimer at the beginning of it in which they explicitly stated that they did not agree with Yiannopoulos’ views and that they opposed “social media tribalism,” which they claimed would lead readers to believe they endorsed Yiannopoulos.
The local gay bar patrons often gave Moore the cold shoulder. Good friends stopped calling. The social stigma had grown around him.
He claimed, “Since I was 15, the gay community has been my entire life.” I also have a lot of affection for the LGBT community. LGBT culture is very important to me. Personally, I’m a huge fan of drag queens. To put it simply, I adore gay clubs. For me, it was everything, and now it’s gone. Sadness ensues. The loss of that has left me feeling sad.
Moore wrote a sort of manifesto for the New York Post in February entitled “I’m a gay New Yorker — and I’m coming out as conservative,” after becoming weary of the animosity he received for being gay and a conservative.
Last Words
When Moore wrote the first profile of Yiannopoulus, he was just doing his job as a journalist, and he shouldn’t have been attacked for it. The words of Red Wing, “Are we living in this community, or are we just erecting silos and living by ourselves?” keep echoing in my mind.
To paraphrase Gary, “I don’t know if there’s ever going to be an answer” to our polarised politics. I can only hope that people will take what I say into consideration. Now that Moore has come out as a conservative, he and his father and other Republican relatives in Iowa can have more in-depth political discussions.
He said, “If Trump does a great job in four years, I will be excited to vote for him.”Perhaps not as much of a rhetorical bomb as what Yiannopoulos has said. Even so, it won’t fly in the borough of Brooklyn.
