In a June 23, 2023 video, white nationalist Jared Taylor explicitly connected opposition to LGBTQ rights with the spread of white nationalist beliefs — which he referred to as “white racial consciousness.” Taylor also referred to homosexuality as a “defect,” compared it to being deaf, and promoted a hate group that targets the LGBTQ community.

Jared Taylor referred to the acceptance of LGBTQ people as a form of “secular madness,” and complained about the term “gay” being used to describe homosexuality. Taylor added that “homosexuality is a defect,” and, in a diatribe that could have been plucked from any show on The Daily Wire or Fox News, said it was akin to necrophilia or bestiality.

“When someone’s sexual energy — and we have a lot of it — is wasted on a reproductive dead end, that’s a defect,” Taylor said. “Biologically it’s no different from wanting to copulate with lawn mowers, or animals, or dead people. Just because same-sex attraction is more common, doesn’t mean it’s not a defect.”

Taylor added that homosexuality is akin to deafness and suggesting it shouldn’t be celebrated.

“Homosexuality is like deafness. We don’t persecute deaf people. And we don’t celebrate them either,” he claimed. “We don’t make a fuss over the first deaf person who does something. And there are no deaf pride parades. Deaf people go about their business, and we wish them well.”

“Homosexuals are different,” he continued. “They don’t want to be treated just like everyone else. They want us to think they’re special. And better. They want to be noticed and celebrated. Adored, even. It’s like being Black: We must never forget that people used to give them a hard time.”

Taylor blamed the acceptance of LGBTQ people on what he called “fanatic, psychotic individualism,” and framed it as a danger to the community.

“It comes as a shock to a lot of Americans, but whom you copulate with, when, and why are not your business alone,” he asserted. “Every society sets rules, because without rules society collapses. Healthy societies have rules that are meant to build families and promote child-rearing. They grow out of an ancient sense of duty to family, nation, and race.”

Taylor claimed that the “homo-tranny-drag queen stuff is the very opposite” and that the “strongest opposition to it comes from religious groups and racially conscious people.” And he said that “every gain in white racial consciousness is a victory for families and sound sexual behavior.”

He went on to say that, “You cannot have white awareness without understanding that healthy families are the key to our survival. And anyone willing to fight the madness and stand up for healthy families is half-way to an understanding of race.”

As Taylor spoke, the video showed images of a white supremacist dating website and the Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-LGBTQ hate group that has sought to criminalize homosexuality and sterilize transgender people abroad. In the U.S. the ADF has helped craft anti-trans and anti-abortion legislation.