Crumbling Narratives. Is LBGTQ next? - 08 December 2025

We are living in an era of fraying narratives. Anthropogenic Global Warming as a threat to human survival is now playing defense. Well established health protocols, including the country's vaccine regimen, are being questioned in the wake of rising obesity and autism and declining sperm counts. The Covid storyline on mask, vaccine, and social distancing effectiveness is now seen to be authoritarian overreach. Is LBGTQ next?

I listened to the Tucker Carlson Podcast with Milo Yiannopoulos two days ago while doing my three-mile walk in Park City, UT residential area, Park Meadows. 'Member Yiannopoulos? Listen to the Tucker Podcast

In the mid 2010's Yiannopoulos gained widespread notoriety for his flamboyant, openly gay, conservative persona, outspoken criticism of feminism, Islam, political correctness, and social-justice activism. His campus speaking tours, often sponsored by conservative groups, frequently sparked protests and bans, culminating in 2017 when controversial comments appearing to condone pedophilia led to the cancellation of a Simon & Schuster book deal, his resignation from Breitbart, and a sharp decline in mainstream visibility.

The discussion with Yiannopolous started with Tucker airing a short YouTube video of a Ghanaian TV moderator asking an openly gay guest the question, "Why are You Gay?" Bing Videos

Tucker's opening monologue noted the irony in the Ghanaian announcer's question. That is, that the question "Why are you gay?" is a verboten question in the "enlightened" West. It would be like asking a woman, "Why are you a woman?" Being gay in the West is now an established condition of birth. Gay marriage has been certified by the US Supreme Court to have no legal distinction from marriage between a man and a woman. To the Ghanaian interviewer, however, being gay was a matter of choice. The Yiannopoulos podcast pivoted on the possibility that the Ghanaian moderator's question has legitimacy.

Here I summarize from memory selected recollections I had from Yiannopoulos's comments:

1. Gays are no longer creative. Gays were creative when they were at the fringe of societal acceptance. Now that gays have been "normalized," they have lost their reputation as a uniquely creative cohort.

2. At a fundamental level most gays know that engaging in homosexual relations is wrong.

3. Gays should go back to the closet and try to get better.

4. Pete Buttigieg is not gay. His "conversion" was a contrivance to position himself for political advantage.

5. There is no scientific evidence to say that one is born as a homosexual. There may be proclivities one way or the other, many influenced by circumstances of upbringing, but declaration of gayness is largely a matter of choice.

Apart from Yiannopolous's narrative assaulting claims, what seems to be most important about this podcast is the fact that it was aired in the first place. Media guru Marshal McLuhan famously said that "the media is the message." The Yiannopolous podcast portends to extend the Overton Window in a way so as to legitimize discussion on a topic, the origins of male homosexuality, and its place in culture, which could not be discussed before.

Tucker Carlson has begun to push out the Overton Window on a number of fronts. He recently interviewed Nick Fuentes, a widely viewed racist, anti-Semitic, anti-feminist, but clearly talented internet influencer heretofore banned from participating in the national political dialogue. Fuentes's pushing an anti-Israel theme seems to be a factor in polls showing a declining support amongst US young people for the US support of Israel. Fuentes, once cancelled, is now, resulting from the Tucker podcast, out in the open.

One thing is true... in a Musk secured US free speech environment it appears to be open season on heretofore firmly established culture war and liberal government narratives. It remains to be seen if the LBGTQ narrative stands up over time. The new X inspired era of free speech, with former speech taboos falling right and left, is sparking some lively debates... debates which would not have been aired five years ago.