On Monday, the organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference revoked its invitation for Mr. Yiannopoulos to speak this week,<br />and the publisher Simon & Schuster said it was canceling the publication of his book, “Dangerous.”<br />Appearing in rented office space in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, Mr. Yiannopoulos, in a sober suit and red tie, was both contrite and defiant.<br />“I would be wrong to allow my poor choice of words to detract from my colleagues’ important job, which is why<br />today I am resigning from Breitbart, effective immediately,” Mr. Yiannopoulos said at a news conference.<br />Milo Yiannopoulos, the conservative polemicist whose endorsement of pedophilia instigated outrage over the weekend,<br />resigned on Tuesday from Breitbart News, the hard-right news and opinion website where he was a longtime editor.<br />“I’m proud to be a warrior for free speech and creative expression,” Mr. Yiannopoulos said, adding, “I’m not going anywhere.”<br />Mr. Yiannopoulos’s announcement was met with glee in some quarters and dismay in others.<br />Mr. Yiannopoulos’s resignation followed days of tumult<br />that intensified over the weekend after a conservative group called the Reagan Battalion posted a video that showed him condoning sexual relations between men and boys as young as 13 and jokingly dismissing the gravity of pedophilia by Roman Catholic priests.
