Pride month celebrates lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people and more — but not Milo Yiannopoulos.
A Saturday party for the gay conservative and his new book “Dangerous” had to be relocated after Stratis Morfogen, the owner of Jue Lan Club, pulled the plug on the event on Friday.
“I had no idea this was booked. It was told to us it was a gay pride event. We don’t get involved or take sides with politics, religion, etc.,” Morfogen told me.
Besides alienating his Chelsea clientele, hosting Yiannopoulos seemed certain to draw protesters, like the masked mobs that tore up the University of California Berkeley campus in February, causing $100,000 in damage.
Yiannopoulos’ publicist, who organized the event, said he had to keep the new location a secret. “I don’t want to tell anyone. In New York there is no room for other opinions.”
“Angry, bitter leftists have seized control over the Pride celebration and made it a political statement against President Trump,” Yiannopoulos said.
“I am throwing a party for the outcasts, the rebels, and the gay conservatives who speak, think, and live free of liberal demands.”
“Dangerous” already has pre-orders of 65,000 copies and is set to top the best-seller list.