According to Donovan, androphilia is a positive identification with men who choose kinship with men sexual attraction toward men is only a byproduct of the androphile’s devotion to men, masculinity, and manhood. He and his followers are “androphiles,” a replacement at all levels for “gay,” described in a titular manifesto. He offers homosexual men a solution to cleanse them of the impurities of liberal LGBT culture, freeing them from the “sissified” gay agenda. However, his audience expands beyond the Wolves’ Lynchburg base camp with several published books under his belt (including The Way of Men, a book that gets circulated particularly heavily among white nationalists, men’s rights activists, et cetera), countless well-circulated articles on far-right blogs, and an Instagram following of about 26,000, his politics of new homosexual masculinity reach a broad audience. In this paper, I examine the writings of Jack Donovan, one of the headlining personalities of the Wolves of Vinland, a network of Volkisch homosexual men in Virginia. Thus, I ask this central question: How do white gay men on the far-right negotiate their queerness in service of white supremacy? This process reeks of the same homophobia as that which was mobilized by the evangelical right against homosexuals in the past. ![]() ![]() The queer subjects who find themselves accepted into the hallowed halls of white supremacy mobilize the same framework of the gay agenda to mark the differences between properly-redpilled queers and their liberal cuck counterparts. As such, the threat of the gay agenda continues to loom, albeit translated for a very different context than its late-twentieth century conception. This process of re-identification mandates a stark separation between the right-wing and mainstream homosexual subjects. This phenomenon has grown to the extent that many white, cisgender gay men have negotiated the contours of a homosexual male identification outside of the LGBT context and the liberal-left connotations presumed by the acronym. However, one need not look further than fallen star of the right Milo Yiannopoulos, the infamous writer and spokesman of The Dangerous Faggot fame, to show how much impact the embrace of gay men by the far-right can have: By highlighting his own homosexuality, Yiannopoulos gave the right a chip in the assumed game of neoliberal identity politics championed by their mainstream center-left opposition. To be clear, most of the far-right still believe that homosexuals are degenerates who deserve to die in the racial holy war. Many corners of this “new” right have renounced many of their previous devotions in favor of intensifying their investments in white supremacy and misogyny: one of which being homophobia. However, as the Overton Window continues to shift, conservatism has found new poster children within a batch of young, affluent, white millennials championing white nationalism, neo-Confederate, neo-Nazi, and myriad other far-right beliefs. This vision has haunted the American right since well before its religious shift in the late twentieth century, from the “lavender scare” of the ‘50s to the institutionalization of homosexuals under the umbrella of paraphilia. “The Gay Agenda:” a specter of flamboyant faggots, duplicitous drag queens, and gender outlaws coming to a white Christian cul-de-sac near you. ![]() This essay contains references to ideologies of genocidal intent. Paper presented at the National Communication Association 105th annual convention, “Communication for Survival,” in Baltimore, Maryland, where it was recognized as the Top Student Paper in the GLBTQ Communication Studies division, on November 16th, 2019.Ī version of this paper was also recognized as the Best Honors Thesis in Communication at Wake Forest University in April 2019.
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