Milo Yiannopoulos
British polemicist and political commentator
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| August 5 2024 | Yiannopoulos publicly disclosed being sexually abused by a priest named Fr. Michael when he was 13, and clarified his previous controversial statements as an attempt to make sense of his traumatic experience. |
| May 15 2024 | Stepped down from Yeezy Apparel due to West's announcement of an adult entertainment division. |
| April 2024 | Listed as Chief of Staff at Yeezy Apparel. |
| May 2023 | Yiannopoulos was rehired by Kanye West to run his presidential campaign. |
| March 2023 | Yiannopoulos published allegations on his Telegram channel about Ali Alexander, claiming sexual misconduct related to teenage boys during the Kanye West campaign. |
| November 2022 | Yiannopoulos worked with Kanye West's 2024 presidential campaign and claimed to have arranged a controversial dinner meeting between Trump, West, and Nick Fuentes. |
| June 2022 | Became an unpaid intern for Republican Party politician Marjorie Taylor Greene, marking a notable shift in his professional trajectory. |
| June 2021 | Announced fundraising efforts for establishing a gay conversion therapy centre in Florida. |
| March 2021 | Declared in a LifeSiteNews interview that he was no longer homosexual and had 'demoted' his husband to 'housemate'. |
| 2020 | Published the book 'The Trial of Roger Stone'. |
| December 2020 | Publicly denounced Donald Trump, criticizing his Supreme Court appointments and declaring his intention to work towards destroying the Republican Party. |
| 2019 | Banned from making a speaking tour in Australia after criticism for his comments about the Christchurch mosque shootings. |
| 2019 | Released self-published books 'How to Be Poor' and 'How to Be Straight', along with 'The Trial of Roger Stone' and 'Middle Rages: Why the Battle for Medieval Studies Matters to America'. |
| November 2019 | Yiannopoulos released an audio recording apparently featuring Richard B. Spencer using racial slurs, referencing the aftermath of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. |
| August 2019 | Served as grand marshal for a straight pride parade in Boston, organized by Super Happy Fun America, which was ostensibly meant to celebrate heterosexuality. |
| May 2019 | Permanently banned from Facebook along with other controversial political figures like Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, and Paul Joseph Watson, with Facebook citing the removal was due to promoting violence and hate. |
| March 2019 | Following the Christchurch mosque shootings, Yiannopoulos condemned the violence but wrote on Facebook that such attacks occur because 'the establishment panders to and mollycoddles extremist leftism and barbaric, alien religious cultures'. |
| 2018 | Wrote the foreword for 'Jordanetics: A Journey into the Mind of Humanity's Greatest Thinker' published by Castelia Press. |
| 2018 | Published the book 'Diabolical: How Pope Francis Has Betrayed Clerical Abuse Victims Like Me – and Why He Has to Go', which repeated discredited claims about paedophilia and homosexuality. |
| 2018 | Yiannopoulos told news organizations that he wanted vigilantes to shoot journalists, writing in a text message 'I can't wait for vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight'. |
| December 2018 | Milo Yiannopoulos was revealed to have accumulated over $2 million in unpaid debts, including $1.6 million to his own company, $400,000 to the Mercer Family Foundation, $153,215 to former lawyers, $76,574 to Breitbart writer Allum Bokhari, and $20,000 to Cartier, as reported by his former Australian tour promoters, Australian Events Management. |
| October 2018 | Yiannopoulos posted an inflammatory Instagram comment about pipe bombs sent to Trump critics, saying it was 'disgusting and sad (that they didn't go off, and the daily beast didn't get one)'. Instagram initially refused to remove the post but later deleted it after it was reported as hate speech. |
| June 2018 | Following the Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis, Maryland, where five people were killed, Yiannopoulos denied responsibility for his previous comments, claiming they were a joke and that he was trolling journalists. |
| June 2018 | Yiannopoulos applied to join the UK Independence Party, shifting from his previous support of the Conservative Party. |
| March 2018 | Yiannopoulos confirmed that the Privilege Grant had been closed down. He previously apologized for mismanaging the grant and denied personally spending the missing funds. |
| February 2018 | Dropped the lawsuit against Simon & Schuster. |
| January 2018 | Mistakenly reported and presented a fictitious satirical news story as fact, claiming an English High Court ruled that the National Health Service must offer cervical smear tests to men, demonstrating his misunderstanding of a spoof news article. |
| 2017 | Resided in the United States as a U.S. resident alien on O-1 visa status. |
| 2017 | Yiannopoulos was depicted singing 'America the Beautiful' at a karaoke bar, surrounded by neo-Nazis and white supremacists performing Nazi salutes. |
| 2017 | Wrote forewords for two books: 'Forbidden Thoughts' published by Subversive Press and 'No Campus for White Men: The Transformation of Higher Education into Hateful Indoctrination' published by WND Books. |
| November 2017 | Conducted a controversial tour of Australia, visiting Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Adelaide, and Perth. During the tour, he stirred controversy by making offensive comments about Australian Aboriginal art and projecting an inappropriate image of feminist writer Clementine Ford. The tour involved multiple clashes between protesters, with seven people arrested. |
| October 2017 | Milo Yiannopoulos married his husband in Hawaii and simultaneously opposed the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, arguing it would violate religious freedom. |
| October 2017 | BuzzFeed News published leaked email chains revealing Yiannopoulos's communications with alt-right and neo-Nazi figures, including Curtis Yarvin, Devin Saucier, Andrew Auernheimer, and Baked Alaska. |
| September 2017 | Married his long-term boyfriend in Hawaii. |
| June 2017 | Simon & Schuster cancelled plans to publish Yiannopoulos' autobiography in response to the controversy. |
| May 2017 | Announced self-publication of 'Dangerous', scheduled for release on 4 July 2017. The book became the best-selling political humour book on Amazon and a bestseller on multiple lists including New York Times and Wall Street Journal. |
| February 2017 | Yiannopoulos was announced as a speaker for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which was subsequently challenged after controversial videos surfaced about his comments on child sexual relationships. |
| February 2017 | Simon & Schuster cancelled the publication of 'Dangerous' due to controversial video and sexual-consent comments. Yiannopoulos initiated litigation against the publisher for breach of contract, seeking $10 million in damages. |
| February 21 2017 | Yiannopoulos resigned from his position at Breitbart News. |
| February 20 2017 | Media reported that Breitbart was considering terminating Yiannopoulos' contract due to controversial statements about sexual relationships with minors. |
| February 1 2017 | Scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley, but the event was cancelled due to massive protests involving over 1,500 people, violent agitators, property damage, and security concerns. The university incurred approximately $100,000 in damages. |
| January 2017 | Spoke at the University of Washington, which led to large protests and an incident where a 34-year-old man was shot and suffered life-threatening injuries during the event. |
| 2016 | Yiannopoulos published a controversial Breitbart article titled 'Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism Or Cancer?', expressing extreme critical views about feminism. |
| 2016 | Nominated to become rector of the University of Glasgow, stating he would protect LGBT students by shutting down the Muslim Students Association. |
| December 2016 | Announced a ghostwritten autobiography 'Dangerous', receiving an $80,000 advance from Simon & Schuster. The book's pre-sales immediately elevated it to first place on Amazon.com's best-sellers list. |
| August 2016 | Yiannopoulos reported that the Privilege Grant had received approximately $100,000 in donations and an additional $250,000 in pledges. However, it was also revealed that over a quarter of a million dollars had gone missing from the fund. |
| July 2016 | Banned from Twitter for online harassment of actress Leslie Jones. |
| June 2016 | Commented on the Orlando nightclub shooting, claiming all of Islam was responsible for mistreating women and homosexuals, not just radical groups. |
| January 2016 | Milo Yiannopoulos established the Privilege Grant, a scholarship fund for white men, to counterbalance scholarships for women and minorities. He launched the fund through an online telethon. |
| 2015 | Wrote the foreword for the book 'SJWs Always Lie—Taking Down the Thought Police' published by Castalia Press. |
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