Tucker Carlson’s recent media… let’s just call it ‘output’ has been dominated by a sustained and unusually specific focus on gay men, their sexuality and the authenticity of high‑profile gay figures. According to DNA Magazine, the former Fox News host has repeatedly returned to the subject in long interviews and provocations, prompting observers to ask whether the attention is ideological, personal or simply a ratings strategy.
The episode that most clearly encapsulated that approach aired on 27 November, when Carlson interviewed Piers Morgan on The Tucker Carlson Show and urged Morgan to utter a homophobic slur – that would be the word ‘faggot’ – on camera. Morgan declined, saying ‘I don’t believe in needlessly sneering or insulting anybody,’ while Carlson proceeded to use the word himself, framing the stunt as an exercise in free speech. Reporting on the exchange, several outlets noted the wider debate it provoked about the boundaries of offensive language in public media.
A week later Carlson devoted more than two hours to an interview with Milo Yiannopoulos, during which he defended Uganda’s Anti‑Homosexuality Act and described aspects of the legislation as ‘civilised’, a characterisation at odds with the law’s text and international human‑rights criticism. Industry reporting and public records show the 2023 Ugandan statute criminalises consensual same‑sex activity and prescribes severe penalties, including life imprisonment and, in some provisions, harsher sentences for what it terms ‘aggravated homosexuality.’ According to those sources, Carlson’s summary of the law misrepresented it.
The Yiannopoulos conversation also recycled long‑discredited theories about the causes of same‑sex attraction, including family‑dynamic explanations and pathologising language, which experts and mainstream research reject. Reporting indicates these positions echo a pattern of conservative provocateurs who frame sexuality as a behavioural pathology rather than an orientation.
Carlson has also singled out individual gay public figures. In September he publicly challenged Pete Buttigieg’s authenticity as a gay man, offering to quiz the former US transportation secretary about ‘very specific questions about gay sex’, a line of attack Buttigieg rejected. Speaking to journalist Kara Swisher, Buttigieg said ‘First of all, I do not think I want to discuss anything with Tucker Carlson,’ and added, ‘I guess it’s a sign of progress that their idea of a conspiracy is that I’m actually secretly straight. We are through the looking glass now.’ The original coverage characterised Carlson’s remarks as part of a broader pattern of personal attacks.
Source: Noah Wire Services
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