Tucker Carlson's pathological obsession with homosexuality, exposed , by @MSignorile https://signorile.substack.com/p/tucker-carlsons-pathological-obsession?r=bydn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

"Last week, social media lit up with screen grabs of Tucker Carlson’s yearbook entry from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1991, which was confirmed by the college, listing the 'Dan White Society' as a club to which Carlson stated he belonged."

"It was a grotesque, homophobic and violent display, as Dan White was the anti-gay killer of gay civil rights leader and San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Mascone, both of whom White assassinated in 1979 at City Hall."

"Indeed, Carlson seems to have been obsessed with homosexuality going way back, having co-written a letter in the college paper in 1990 stating that homosexuality is 'unnatural and unhealthy.'”

"And then there was the incident in which he reveled in a violent response."

“In 2007 Carlson told Dan Abrams on MSNBC that he smashed a man’s head 'against the stall’ in a public rest room, claiming the man had ‘bothered' him, though not at first saying he was responding to a sexual advance — just that he was ‘bothered.’"

"In hindsight, it was stated with the zeal we’ve come to learn is a mark of heterosexual men who are insecure about their own masculinity and sometimes their own sexuality."

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"Carlson, with bravado, decided to go off on this tangent, heralding the gay-bashing he’d once committed. It seemed to be a way of normalizing a violent response by straight men to homosexuality to send a threat to gay men."