Is Nick Fuentes gay?
The far-right extremist prompts hard questions
If you look at right-wing culture from the outside, you’d see frequent anti-gay statements. To look closer, many figures are oddly sexually ambiguous and teasing.
Consider Nick Fuentes, the far-right Catholic commentator who is often called a white nationalist. He is “fringe” and “extreme”—and a continuous conversation takes place around the puzzle of his sexuality.
Fuentes was born in 1998 and grew up in La Grange Park, Illinois, outside Chicago.
He’s Mexican on his father’s side and was raised Catholic. He lately emphasizes that he has been a lifelong incel—a brand he wears proudly—though with the brief lapse of once kissing a girl in high school.
He went to Boston University in 2016, to study international relations and political science, then spent more time getting started in right-wing media. Buoyed by the Donald Trump phenomenon, he launched a web T.V. show, America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes.
He was profiled in the Boston Globe in 2017, doing his show and “causin’ some mischief,” as he puts it. His thoughts on immigration?
“I want all of them out.”
He’s listed as 5'8" or 5'9" but is physically very small.
He became the far-right-wing doll. You pull his string and he says shocking things. He’s a white nationalist incel who sort of likes Hitler!
And yet he doesn’t at all suggest ordinary right-wing styles or values. He likes to say he’s “never touched a woman in my life” and discusses himself as a “misogynist” who is uninterested in emotional or sexual contact with women. He is, as he says, “stone-cold to somebody.”
And then this not-white man is off talking up white nationalism, with nods to Nazi Germany as some kind of ideal—and all with a smile.
He kept up his show, and developing an audience and a brand.
His rants and pranks within the right-wing world became well-known. He was creative in the media space he occupied. He staged one “scene” after another. He got banned from social media sites and turned it into a style.
He was the most “dangerous” voice on the right—and could be photographed in the mode. This “scary” Nick Fuentes is boosted by establishment media, eager to link him to more prominent figures.
Most typically, he is impish and smiling—and sexually ambiguous.
There was an infamous livestream in 2019 with ‘CatboyKami’, another right-wing operative, though the event looked oddly like a gay date.
Or were they just tweaking their fans?
Don’t think you’ll ever pin Nick down. He addressed the CatboyKami controversy in 2022, explaining that men can’t have “sex”—since it’s just “friction.”
As he evokes imagery like having sex with a pumpkin, it all becomes goofy and surreal.
Is he into trans porn?
That was another Fuentes experience in 2022, when he was streaming from his phone and his browser windows were briefly in view.
One of them was identified by eager onlookers as a video he wouldn’t have wanted to share publicly: “Tgirl sucking a femboy’s dick and then he jerks until cum.”
Nick was into…that?
But his social circle did seem…gayish?
With a range of apparent friends, including gay-to-ex-gay Milo Yiannopoulos and still-gay Ali Alexander, who was later exposed as an actual sexual predator, Fuentes’ vibe is never so heterosexual.
But Fuentes evades any real scrutiny. He understood his audience’s real interest wasn’t right-wing politics, but a performance that was curiously childish, perverse, and not at all driven by the movement’s apparent values.
They follow him as he navigates a “banned” and “dangerous” existence.
While getting banned from social media, he keeps doing his show, as he starts new accounts on banned social media sites. So then there’s the game of guessing if it’s really Nick Fuentes. One apparent Instagram account was ‘bossbabyincel2’—which observers noticed was following a gay account.
Learning of the issue, Milo offered on Telegram: “I never heard this but if it’s true then I’m sold — Nick is a fudgepacker”
Milo adds: “Everything makes sense if Nick is homosexual.”
Is Fuentes is gay?—or just pretending to be?
Fans might ask that, even as they enjoy the overall feeling of being part of a powerful and dangerous and invidious political movement. They’re the “Groypers” or the “Groyper Army,” ready to take on the leftist assaults.
Fuentes and his followers are talked up in the media as “America’s Homegrown Jihadists,” even as the experience of being in that media space is kooky, quirky and and kinda queer.
It’s a theater of performing men that they are not.
Will he just say if he’s gay or not?
Obviously not. But the other day, George Santos was getting in on the fun. The gay GOP politician, recently returning to his drag act after being kicked out of Congress, took advantage of a Fuentes appearance on an X ‘space’ to pop the question.
Fuentes talked around it. He had a harder time days later after he accidentally streamed gay porn. Or did he? He says he was hacked. His followers may accept the explanation. It’s all a part of the fun. 🔶
