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