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Milo Yiannopoulos on Tucker Carlson Show (Transcript)

This is a transcript of British far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos’ interview on The Tucker Carlson Show, December 4, 2025.

Tucker Carlson sits down with Milo Yiannopoulos for a long, provocative conversation built around a single question: “Why are you gay?” The episode opens with Carlson’s monologue on global attitudes toward homosexuality, Western cultural values, and Uganda’s controversial anti-gay laws before turning to Milo’s story. Yiannopoulos discusses his past as a flamboyantly gay conservative, his claim to have renounced homosexuality, and his support for conversion therapy. Together, they dig into religion, politics, sex, and identity in a way designed to challenge mainstream LGBTQ narratives and spark outrage and debate.

The Viral Ugandan Interview

TUCKER CARLSON: Of all the great memes and clips on the Internet, fat kid falls off bike being, of course, the top of the list, really, in the last thirteen years, thirteen years this week, almost nothing created on this planet has surpassed in popularity or sheer hilarity an interview that took place on Ugandan television in December of 2012 on a show called Morning Breeze, the morning show of Kampala, Uganda, in which a trans activist, a woman who now identifies as a man, came on and was asked a series of questions by the host.

And if you don’t know what we’re talking about, here is a two second clip that reveals the essence of the conversation. “Why are you gay? Why are you gay?” Let’s play that again.

“Why are you gay?” It’s still the funniest thing that’s ever been on the Internet. But why is it funny, and why does almost everyone find it funny? Left, right, straight, gay. Well, because it’s kind of the key question, and it’s kind of the question that no one in the United States is allowed to ask.

Why are you gay? And of course, it’s being asked by an East African with kind of a quaint, semi-colonial accent. Conservatives can laugh at it. Liberals can laugh at it. Really, this is the kind of the only way a white liberal in the United States could ever laugh at a black person—if it’s an African expressing non-PC views on homosexuality. “Why are you gay?”

And, of course, people in the West laugh because the guy’s an idiot. “Why are you gay?” We all know why you’re gay. “Why are you gay?” Actually, we’re laughing in part because we’re not allowed to ask that question.

The Forbidden Question

It’s settled, though no one’s really explained what about it is settled. If you were to ask the average American, “Why are people gay?” they would probably say, “Well, they’re born that way.” And then if you follow it up with, “Well, how exactly does that work?” they would have no idea and would tell you to shut up.

Because, again, like so many myths or things that we think we know, we don’t really know. We can’t really explain it, but we do know for dead certain we’re not allowed to talk about it. So when some African morning show host in Uganda, wherever the hell that is, asks it out loud, we can’t help but laugh nervously. “Why are you gay?”

If you watch the whole interview, and actually it’s worth watching because it’s really revealing both about Uganda and about the West, the first thing you notice is how polite everybody is. That tone, “Why are you gay?” continued throughout the entire interview, which lasted over an hour. Just watched it.

And the morning show host, whether you like him or dislike him, was just unfailingly polite to the guest who was herself also unfailingly polite, and they were just sort of talking past each other. The trans activist couldn’t really explain why he or she was gay or whether gay was different from trans or what was good about being gay. That was another question the host asked. “Why would you want to be gay?” And the trans activist just didn’t really have an answer.

What was amazing was the sweetness of it. It was not a hate crime. Was not even approaching a hate crime. No conversation like that could take place in the United States. But the host was coming from a position of total certainty that this is just weird and wrong. And that is the consensus in a lot of the world, and it’s certainly famously the consensus in Uganda.

Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Law

And the consensus in the United States across both parties and pretty much the whole educated population is they’re horrible because they think homosexuality is wrong. And we know this because about ten years later in Uganda, the legislature passed almost unanimously with only, I think, one dissenting vote, a law against something called “aggravated homosexuality.”

Aggravated homosexuality as of 2023 is a death penalty offense in Uganda. What? Aggravated homosexuality? A death penalty offense? That’s medieval.

But how is it defined in Uganda? Well, if you read it, and you can because it’s online, the Ugandan government defines aggravated homosexuality as gay rape of children, gay rape of the elderly who can’t consent, people over seventy-five, gay rape of people who are mentally deficient, and the intentional transmission of deadly diseases to another person.

So it’s rape and murder effectively are against the law. In fact, capital crimes in Uganda. It’s a little different than advertised, but you would never know it because the entire American political class erupted as one when this law passed in East Africa thousands of miles away with a non-relevant trading partner with no real military. In other words, there’s no actual reason to care about what Uganda does, but everyone here did care bipartisanly.

The Western Response

And we’re actually not going to expect you to take our word for it. We’re going to go right to the CIA for the answer, meaning Wikipedia. This is the Wikipedia description of the response. President Joe Biden weighed in.