SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Face c everyplaceed and m let outh tapelined shut, alternative sept and rock singer Michelle Shocked staged a rally in outside a Santa Cruz nightclub that canceled her suggest because she do an anti- joyous slur at a San Francisco club earlier this month.
The tape across her mouth verbalise "Silenced By Fear." When asked a question, Shocked shook her head vigorously and strummed her guitar while place on the ground outside popular euphony locale Moe's Alley. She pointed to a sign inviting people to pick up a Sharpie marker and write on the white expendable safety suit she was wearing.
Earlier in the day, she had tweeted her plans: "Moe's in S Cruz this evening ok? Its an art project `My pass Vacation' I wish your autograph. Bring Sharpie."
Moe's Alley owner Bill Welch, who talked with Shocked as she strummed her guitar outside his club, had replaced her with bands Beaver Fever and Frootie Flavors.
"We will non be bashing Michelle Shocked," he said. "Rather we will celebrate music, diversity and transfer some healing Santa Cruz energy her behavior."
During an interview with Piers Morgan, the " explicateing var." heartthrob who transiti iodind from a "teen-idol-atheist in Hollywood and became a devoted coadjutor of Jesus Christ in the middle of [his] career" explained that he believes homo innerity is "unnatural... I say that it's detri handstal, and ultimately destructive to so creationy of the foundations of civilization." On the issue of marriage equivalence Cameron remarked, " trades union was outlined by God a long cadence ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve -- one man, one woman for life till death do you tell. So I would never attempt to try to specify marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I gestate the idea of et he significant marriage? No, I don't."
In recent years, Gibson has reverse better k nown for his public flyers -- which have included racist, misogynistic, and anti-immigrant slurs -- than he has for any of his movies. But The Advocate cites a 1991 interview Gibson gave to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, in which he spoke nearly rattling men:
"They take it up the a** ... this is only for victorious a s***," he said at the time. "With this look, who's going to think I'm ethereal? I don't lend myself to that type of confusion. Do I look corresponding a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?"
Gibson is all overly believed to have strongly counseled Heath Ledger against ta pouf the role of Ennis Del Mar in Ang Lee's Oscar-winning film "Brokeback Mountain."
The former "Saturday wickedness Live" star and now Tea Party active sparked national furor when she slammed the hit show "Glee" after it featured a kiss between two audacious characters in a column for WorldNetDaily. In the column, capital of Mississippi wrote in response to an emotional, long awaited kiss between Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Blaine (Darren Criss). "Did you affect "Glee" this week? Sickening! And, besides shoving the gay involvement down our throats, they made a mockery of Christians - again! I wonder what their agenda is? Hey, producers of "Glee" - what's your agenda? One-way margin?" She later appeared on "Showbiz Tonight" to clarify her thoughts. "Well, it doesn't matter what I think," capital of Mississippi said. "What matters is what the Bible says. And I'm really concerned around our coarse because immorality is, well, let's see: secular humanism rules the airwaves, and it's stealing the pureness away from this whole generation of children. My daughter is a stripling and I can't find any show that she can watch." With that diatribe, Jackson was asked, based on her remarks, both in the column and in the interview, whether she was homophobic. "That's a cute little buzz member of the liberal agenda," Jackson smirked. "Basically, the Bible says that homosexuality is a sin."
In June, the singer and "The Voice" co-host lashed out on Twitter after a Minnesota music editor gave an episode of the hit series a lusterless review. He tweeted: "I respect your criticism, but be comme il faut! People enjoyed last night! I'm guessing you're gay? And my mannishness shootended you? Well f--k you!" As E Online is reporting, Cee Lo attempted an apology on Twitter, writing: "Apologies gay participation! What was homophobic round that? I said I was guessing he [was] gay which is fine but its nice to [know] what u think of me." The chitchat was deleted concisely thereafter.
It was no laughing matter when "Grey's Anatomy" mover Washington referred to co-star Knight as a " fagot" during an on-set argument with Patrick Dempsey. Though Washington later denied using the word backstage at the 2007 Golden Globes, Knight said he was inspired to come out publicly after earshot his co-star use the word. "I've never been called that to my face," he told Ellen Degeneres. "So I think when that happened, something shifted, and it became bigger than myself." Washington was fired from the show shortly thereafter, but said he believed racism had been a factor out in his dismissal, and claimed that Knight had manipulated the controversy.
Last year, the 65-year-old entrepreneur compared the legalization of marriage twinity to his reluctance to use a new kind of occupy during golf, according to The New York Times. "A attractor of people -- I don't pauperism this to sound trivial -- but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very(prenominal) unattractive," he said. "It's weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can't abase three-footers anyto a greater extent...I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist." Correction: A precedent version of this slide incorrectly stated Trump's age as 56. He is 65.
The CNN analyst was slammed for remarks he made during this year's Super scene of action XLVI. Martin, who was actively tweeting throughout the game, poked fun at men who whitethorn have liked David Beckham's H&M infrawear ads. He wrote that "real bruhs" would non purchase belowwear publicise by Beckham, and that people should "smack the ish out" of a male supporter of the ad. In condemning his comments, GLAAD cited earlier statements by Martin, much(prenominal) as a column in which he said that his wife has "counseled many men and women to walk away from the gay lifestyle, and to live a chaste life," to say that his latest tweets were part of an anti-gay pattern. He later responded to the backlash, noning, "I was not referring to sexuality forthwith or indirectly regarding the David Beckham ad, and I'm dispirited folks took it otherwise. It was meant to be a deliberately over the top and sarcastic crack about soccer; I do not advocate fierceness of any kind against anyone gay, or not."
Exactly how effective Brown's anger care classes are going is questionable, given the series of homophobic, racially-charged tweets he send out last December after rapper Raz, one time of the group B2K, set him off. "@razb2k n---a you want attention!" he wrote. "Grow up n----a!!! Dick in da ass lil boy...Tell me this @razb2k!! wherefore when the money was coming in u won't complaining about getting butplugged! #homothug!!!" Later, Brown wrote, "I'm not homophobic! He's just contemptuous!!!"
No stranger to perceived homophobia, Shelton was heavily criticized after he tweeted, "Re-writing my fav Shania duet song ... Any man that tries touching my behind he's gonna be a beaten, bleedin', heaving kind of guy." He later explaind for the gaffe via Twitter, noting:
Hey y'all allow me to seriously apologize for the misunderstanding with the whole re-write on the Shania song last night...
It honestly wasn't even meant that way... I now know that their are people out there postponement to jump at everything I say on here or anywhere
But when it comes to gay/lesbian rights or just feelings... I love everybody. So go look for a real villain and leave me out of it!!!
The original lyrics are, "Any man of mine better walk the line/ Better show me a teasin', squeezin', pleasin' kinda time."
Carolla came under fire by GLAAD in 2011, after going on a shocking anti-LGBT tirade on a podcast for his radio show, asking, "When did we start giving a sh*t about these [transgender] people?" He also reportedly insisted the acronym LGBT should be dropped in favor of using "YUCK" instead. Carolla later apologized for the rant, noting, "I'm sorry my comments were hurtful. I'm a comedian, not a politician."
Though he later claimed his depict had been hacked, Soulja Boy got awake when the following message reportedly appeared on his Twitter: "I'm gonna keep talking sh*t to these white f*ggots until they unlike my page. f**king weirdo stalkers!"
Last year, the comedian came under fire for jokes he made during a stand-up act. Among the election reported bits:
"Gays need to quit being p**sies and not be whining about something as insignificant as bullying." On the possibility of his son being gay -- Morgan said he "better talk to me like a man and not in a gay voice or I'll quarter out a knife and stab that little n**ger to death." Afterward, Tracy told the crowd, "I don't "f*cking care if I piss off some gays, because if they can take a f*cking d**k up their ass, they can take a f*cking joke."
Later, he apologized in a statement to The Huffington Post:
I want to apologize to my fans and the gay & lesbian community for my picking of words at my recent stand-up act in Nashville. I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others. While I am an equal opportunity jokester, and my friends know what is in my heart, even in a comedy club this slide byly went too far and was not funny in any context.
The "Jersey Shore" came under fire when "unseen footage" of the show surfaced, in which he utilize the terms "f**king faggot" and "f**king queer" during an altercation with an unidentified man on the seaboard Heights boardwalk. TMZ reports the reality star later tweeted an apology, noting, "I apologize to my fans, In the heat of the moment i said a lot of things i didnt mean and im very sorry."
Alan Osmond, who shot to fame in the late 1960s and early '70s as one of The Osmonds, took heat in November for penning an article that some in the lesbian, gay, bisexual person and transgender (LGBT) blogsophere deemed homophobic. In his article for the website The Family, the 62-year-old Osmond brother, who is Mormon, not only argued that being gay is not genetic, but also comes out in apology of "reparation" therapy, which is sought by those seeking to change their sexual orientation:
Research has NOT proved that homosexuality is genetic. Even more important, many researchers whose studies have been used to support a biologic model for homosexuality have determined that their work has been MISINTERPRETED. What is clear is that homosexuality results from an interaction of social, biological, and psychological factors. These factors may include temperament, disposition traits, sexual abuse, familial factors, and treatment by one's peers.
Before noting that "treatment winner rates that exceed 50 percent," Osmond continued:
Developmental factors aside, can individuals change magnitude homosexual attraction and make changes in their lives? Yes. There is full-blooded evidence, both historical and current, to indicate this is the case.
The rapper was slammed after he tweeted: "Perez Hilton calld me douchebag so I had my homie shoot up a gay wedding. wasnt his but still made me feel better." He was also called particularly insensitive when he tweeted: "If you a man and your over 25 and you don't eat pu**y just toss off your self damn it. The world will be a better place. Lol"
With her danceable music and glamorous style, Donna Summer became an pulsation icon for the gay community during her 1970s heyday. So when she allegedly made a number of religion-inspired remarks about the gay community as well as HIV/AIDS during a 1983 performance, the "Queen of Disco" faced an immediate backlash. "It was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," Summer was quoted as having said during the Atlantic urban center concert by the Village Voice. She is said to have also noted, "I've seen the cruel homosexuality come out of you people... AIDS is the result of your sins. like a shot don't get me wrong; God loves you. But not the way you are now." She denied making the remarks for years afterward, calling the accusations "unjust and unfair." Summer noted in a letter addressed to members of dissemble UP, "I did not say God is punishing gays with AIDS, I did not sit with ill intentions in judgement over your lives. I haven't stopped talking to my friends who are gay, nor have I ever chosen my friends by their sexual preferences."
Materials taken from The Huffington Post
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