Gay Porn and Andrew Tate: why he’s selling homoerotica to Muslim teens

Weirded out by the gaybaiting of the world’s manliest bro? It makes financial sense

Wearing tight, short little American-flag knickers, Andrew Tate stretches his heaving naked C-cup bosom over the desk as he sucks hard on a big, hot cigar. He’s always naked, save some bright small boxers, whether he’s spreading his legs in a sauna or flexing his buttocks as he sashays across the room, fellating yet another cigar to Mariah Carey. Unremarkable and tame as gay-coded OnlyFans twink content goes. Except, Andrew Tate’s whole spiel is that he’s not a bouncy twink and his audience definitely isn’t. They’re manly heterosexual man men, devout Muslims who buy into social conservatism and hardcore tradition. Right? Surely?

The answer, as with all things Tate, is green and made of paper.

With an enormous following of South Asian and Middle Eastern teenage boys, aged between 10–25, the Tate brand is about hero worship. It’s about being a big boy action man in a world where you feel fragile and anxious and sad. When many of these cultures equate insecure masculinity with homosexuality, something very fitna and illegal, it’s easy to understand why a big, naked man bending and sucking and talking about how much girls suck might be a…