Meet the self-loathing gay man behind Tucker Carlson Tonight

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Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson is well known for his virulent homophobia — he’s used attacks on the LGBTQ community to stoke hatred and ratings for years. His first show following the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs featured the founder of Gays Against Groomers.

Less well-known is the man behind Carlson and the rest of the right-wing host’s Fox propaganda machine: Justin Wells, senior executive producer of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Vice President of Tucker Carlson Digital Products, and an out gay man.

Wells has been with Carlson as his executive producer since the beginning of the buttoned-down host’s rise at Fox, when Tucker Carlson Tonight debuted in 2018. It’s now the most-watched show on the network and often on all of cable TV.

The show got there in large part based on Carlson and Wells’ red-meat obsession with sexuality and gender, from opposition to marriage equality to opposition to gender-affirming care for minors. A graphic for that first show following Club Q screamed, “Stop Sexualizing Kids,” with kids spelled out in a kindergarten font.

Journalist Michelangelo Signorile recently interviewed some of Well’s current and former associates, revealing a..

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