This reflects a broader trend among white nationalists to denigrate gay lifestyle, although getting far more tolerant of homosexual writers and musicians whose views they sympathize with, like James O'Meara, and Douglas Pearce. As noted by Nagle, the alt-right's use of humor renders it hard to explain to "what political sights were being genuinely held and what were just, as they made use of to say, for the lulz". The use of "Deus Vult!