We won’t waste too many words on this, but when a major gay publication decides to put a stain on the gay community on its cover, it’s worth addressing. The Advocate contracted New York Times-y writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis to profile Perez Hilton, he of the celebrity blog and Miss California media meme. The article, online here, went to print before Mr. Hilton (real name Mario Lavandeira) engaged in his most noteworthy undertaking to date: calling will.i.am. of the Black Eyed Peas a “faggot.” Had the piece been filed after the incident, it might have steered in a different direction, perhaps away from Hilton trying desperately to find a boyfriend. But the online version includes updated comments from the blogger post-“faggot” incident. And those comments reveal that despite Lavandeira’s apology about using the f-word (to assuage GLAAD, apparently), there is no meaning behind his words. In fact, Lavandeira is as harmful as ever to minority communities, several of which he belongs (gay, Hispanic, obese).
I thought about calling him the n word but I thought the f word was even worse. I was so filled with hate at that moment because I was hated on so much, and I reacted in the worst way possible. Then I went on to make a bunch of other mistakes. I shouldn’t have made the video. I shouldn’t have released so many statements. But what’s come out of all of this is that I’ve learned so much about myself, and I’m in a much better place. I’m actually thankful that it happened. As cheesy as it may sound, I had almost a spiritual moment when I just let all of the anger and worry go and am now filled with peace, happiness, and wisdom. I could let this jade me and go back to being the super bitch that I was when I first started the website, but I’ve softened on my website and in life, maybe because I’m happier in my personal life than I’ve ever been.
What’s so horrifying is not just that Lavandeira feels comfortable “almost” calling another person by a slave name — he would have done so more easily, in fact, than calling will.i.am a a gay slur — but that throughout the entire article, the blogger can be found proclaiming himself to be a gay advocate; “his earnest belief that one of his true callings is as a civil rights leader,” writes Denizet-Lewis. Can you imagine a self-described black civil rights leader throwing around the n-word to express his anger? Or an advocate for the physically disabled calling her foes gimps?
“I’ve always known that a lot of gays didn’t like me,” Lavandeira says in comments after the Black Eyed Peas fracas, “but after this it felt like no gays liked me. It was one of the worst weeks of my life.” It is a feeling he should adjust himself to, but now add “the black community” to the list of folks who find no friend in Perez Hilton the brand or the person. For someone who (in addition to coke scrawls and penis drawings) writes so many of them, Lavandeira has no concept of how words work.
This item is not an attempt to disparage Mr. Lavandeira; he does a fine job of that himself. But it is a cue to media, gay rights advocates, and anyone inclined to turn to this person as a voice of anyone in the gay community: Please, don’t.
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
Allan
Thanks for the insightful piece. Lavandeira admits that he wanted to call Wil.i.am the n-word but settled on the f-word. What more do we need to know about him?
CHEEKIEY
Gross. I was hoping to never see this douce again. Anyone that needs to say his name should always call him Mario from this point not Perez. You stupid Mario. You are a stain on society Mario.
Kamikapse
He was never “just a catty blogger”
But before the f-word incident you never saw any reason to speak out against the way he talks down pretty much every minority.
Bunch of opportunists…
matt
Can I get my 7 minutes back? Kthanks.
Alexander
Yeah, I think Perez’s time is almost up. His site is struggling, and one quick look at the comments on ANY of his posts reveal that the hits that keep coming are mainly from haters, as well they should be. He was never a great journalist, but he did popularize something we see a lot of today (celeblogs). Give it a year, someone he DIDN’T piss off will give him a nice cushy job behind a desk at Out, or more likely, TMZ, and we’ll never have to worry about Perez-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named.
Celia
@Alexander: The one time I tried to read the comments at Perez Hilton, I saw actually quite a lot of homophobia. And not just “oh you’re being sensitive” stuff. It was around the time George Takei got married, and people were calling him (Takei) a paedophile etc – and I think there may have been some racism too, although I didn’t exactly want to commit a bunch to memory. In essence, it doesn’t seem to me as if his blog has ever been much fun for people who don’t like petty drama. But you can forgive people for not having noticed, because not everyone reads there.
My impression is that Mr. L. feels he is entitled to be incredibly rude and doesn’t see why people would dare question him. He needs a healthy dose of ignoring.
mikeandrewsdantescove
I do get frustrated with Perez always featuring everything about him on his site. I was mad that he published the Dustin Lance Black sex photos and how he handled the Will.i.am Fword situation.
Mike
http://jjadams928.blogspot.com/
Jake
“gay, Hispanic, obese” – who is being catty now?
Mr Hilton deserves to be vilified for his comments but its a bit rich of you to call him catty and then be catty yourself.
Jake the libertarian
Personally I enjoy how for some reason he thinks that all of this is ok because he learned something from it. “I am a better person.” “I had a spiritual moment.” Hell, we should all use slurs against people! Its the surest and quickest way to become a better person!
Hey you snarling, sharp tonged, fanged little bitch… What you said was NOT ok. If you feel good about it, then that is even worse. Going on Larry King and speaking for the gay community about Miss California was NOT OK. NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP. That’s how it works.
Jennifer
He has always tolerated the worst kind of bigotry in his comments section. I called him on it following the Mel Gibson sugar tits incident, when the anti-semitism in comments just blew my mind. He wouldn’t delete any of this rubbish (or even seek to mitigate it) and, in fact, did not respond to my concerns, or those of anyone else.
His open campaigning for Clinton in the wake of her campaign’s race baiting during last year’s election was another bone of conention. Mario is a dickwad.
ousslander
I can think of a black leader who used it, Jesser Jackson.
Perez is all about Perez, he will say and do anything for the attention. I believe the real reason he didn’t call will.i.am. a nigger is because he was scared shityless and knew using the word would probably got his ass truly kicked and be branded a racist,
RomanHans
> [W]hen a major gay publication decides to put a stain on
> the gay community on its cover, it’s worth addressing.
But it’s okay when a straight publication puts Paris Hilton on the cover? And who said anyone thinks Mr. Hilton is a “voice of the gay community”? Are all the cover subjects of, say, Rolling Stone voices of the hetero community?
Those are certainly odd opinions Queerty has.
Yes, some people may look at Mr. Hilton and say all gay men are like that. It’s called “bigotry.” It’s sad that people are that stupid, but we can’t dodge it by putting Anderson Cooper on the cover of all our mags.
robin
perez hilton is an ignorant sack of shit.
Dabq
He’s just vile on so many levels, but ,he has used that word before about blacks in his, whatever they call that thing, so, this isn’t a shock, the only shock is he gets away with it because the Hollywood types are afraid to put him in his nasty, ugly, fat place.
And the saddest thing of all is that there are MILLIONS of dimwitted readers to his site that think he is the face and spokesperson of the glbt community, which is just twisted.
And when will the Avodcate just go away, they wasted ink on this bigot??
Qjersey
@Celia:
I long ago stopped reading the comments on Perez’s site because of the rampant homophobia and racism in addition to the infantile and juvenile depth of the comments. So by refusing to moderate comments on his site he is tacitly endorsing and perpetuating haterade.
Rick
and he’s OBESE!
guess you took care of her!
wonder if your hello kitty purse from ebay is coming today…..
Jake the libertarian
@Qjersey:
Same here. I visit the site sometimes because its a good place to get little gossip news of no consequence, but i never read the comments. They make me weep for humanity.
george
I have stopped reading Perez Hilton after the F-Word incident as no one deserves our support for what he said. I encourage others to do the same as his website viewership is his only power and we can take that away by not supporting his hate speech.
CHEEKIEY
MARIO PEOPLE MARIO… CALL HIM MARIO
Sam
The sooner the media stops covering the three evil Hiltons – Paris, Perez and Nicky – the better. These are three “sisters” I could stand to never hear about again.
Merlin
What has happened to Queerty anymore? Don’t understand this opportunity to express homophobia on Queerty.
None of you have ever been bashed? or threatened by others personally? How would you disable an aggressive person in your face acting like they were gonna hit you, knowing you were gay and unlikely to strike back at them?
Language is no excuse for violence. Hating the victim of physical violence makes you all abusive in your premissiveness.
If a Tree Falls in the Woods.....
Wait a second….are we sure Mr. Lavandería is actually, officially gay? Has it ever been proven that he has actually had sex with a man? …Who wasn’t related to him?
Tony12
@Merlin:
Merlin, have you ever read Mario’s site? He is the violent one. He has verbally and visually abused people for years with his nasty comments and drawings. It shouldn’t come to a surprise to Mario when someone finally confronts him with physical violence.
Will I Am did the right thing. If he didn’t haul off and hit Mario than vicious words would have continued to have flown. Will decided to put an end to it with a punch. Good for him. I would have done the same thing. Rational discussion doesn’t work with the likes of people like Mario. At times you have to go to an extreme to teach a bully a lesson.
Mario was most likely a kid who was beaten up and teased in school. It is shocking to me that he turns around and treats people with the same disrespect that was thrust upon him. He needs to grow up. Mario, isn’t on the playground anymore.
Geoff M
Great article Queerty. The thing that gets me about Perez, is how self loathing he is.
Merlin
Go ahead and support bashing, show those uppity gays whose boss?
mikeincleveland
“I am a better person.” “I had a spiritual moment.”
No, you mean, “I had a big meeting with my agent and their PR friend and they told me to chill it out for a while otherwise I’ll risk losing advertisers and a future t.v. show pilot and a book deal and a recurring guest spot on Larry King Live…”
Abby
Ugh. Queerty is so hypocritical. They have never given him a fair analysis. I don’t like him, but I am not so biased as to bash him unnecessarily. Get over it – his site is more popular. Anyone that thinks he is going away soon is an idiot. His hits are off the charts and breaking records over the last few months. He is also branching out and clearly doing a good job of it if he can land covers and create videos that open all of Britney Spears shows. Sure you can hate him for MANY reasons, but don’t be naive. He isn’t going anywhere and is doing more than you are sitting on your butt at home.
Geoff M
@Merlin: I don’t think anyone is advocating gay bashing Merlin, most of us have experienced it in some way or another. It’s more about the reprehensible behavior by one of our own, and how that brings us all down.
I don’t think Will i am popped him because he was gay….but rather because perez was shooting off his mouth in a really offensive way to the wrong person and at the wrong time and place.
Celia
@Merlin: Someone else on this site told me that the argument began because of Mr. L’s comments about Fergie, which Will didn’t take very well. I don’t read at Perez Hilton, as I said, so I don’t have all the info, but I was told by another commenter here that Mr. L’s sexuality didn’t come into it aside from him thinking “faggot” was the worst word to throw at someone.
Not that I condone smacking people about, but this was a mutual fight, not a hate crime. Different things, really.
GranDiva
Can we have some sort of gay community referendum and vote to revoke Mario’s membership?
GBM
FUCK THIS IGNUNT QUEEN!
Jaroslaw
This post is really confusing and “mysterious” to me. If Perez/Mario whatever is so awful and a piece of sludge then why all the fuss if it is SOOOOO self-evident?
If he & his followers and their blog postings are so ignorant, are they going to care about anything posted here?
While I knew very little of PH/ML prior to the Miss California thing; does “forgiveness” factor in here anyplace?
I don’t mean accepting at face value “I had a spiritual moment” and forget the whole thing, but if people are permanently written off and never forgiven, a lot of people posting here would probably be non-persons also!
Jaroslaw
PS – being on the cover of the Advocate is “news” not an endorsement of a particular person or their views correct? I mean the subtitle is “as infuriating as ever”
G
I liked him better before anyone took him so seriously, when he was doing fluff Q&As for magazines like HX. http://perezhilton.com/?p=5156#more-5156
MIDTOWN
Next they will put David Unger from Avalon Equity or Matthew Bank from debunked HX and NY Blade. How low on the bottom of someone’s show will they stoop?
Rando
Obesity is the only majority Perez belongs to.
Johnny
It’s so discouraging to see people tear him down while insulting his weight, his looks, and whether he’s queeny or not. And so many people have said he deserved violence, or worse. Not cool. You can hate what he writes, or even hate him, but if you don’t want him as a spokesperson for LGBTs then you’re a hypocrite for attacking him that way. Grow up.
Rudy
@G: Exactly.
We don’t need a gossip-monger posing as the community’s leader.
Celia
@Jaroslaw: I think what you’re saying is good, but to forgive someone, one really must be able to be confident that they’ve earned forgiveness. Which is to say, showing that they have learned, rather than just saying it and expecting everyone to be content with that. Far too many people – of all sorts – think that they can say “I’m sorry” and then just carry on as they did before.
TL;DR: people aren’t quite ready to forgive yet. Give Queerty time to squint at him like predatory hawks.
SM
Queerty you all act just like Perez Hilton in many ways. So do many of your posters.
Look Pot its kettle.
Maverick69
After reading the Advocate article there is only one conclusion to Perez Hilton. “She’s a legend in her own mind” period.
Matt
Umm, I like Perez and I am glad he’s been so successful.
I understand that Japhy hates Perez because of jealousy — they used to be college buddies and now they’re both bloggers, only Perez is earning millions and Japhy is earning far far far less.
But I don’t understand why everyone else hates Perez.
– Perez does dumb stuff sometimes but so does every celebrity.
– Perez dishes gossip, ridicules celebrities, and tries to be a spokesman for the gay community, but so does Kathy Griffin and gays generally like her.
– Perez posted Dustin Lance Black’s nudie photos — but they were newsworthy and Perez has published every celebrity’s crotch shots as they have popped up over the years. It’s not like Dustin Lance Black is some mythical Christ figure whose dirty pictures are somehow off limits.
If anyone can explain to me why mainstream gays seem to loathe Perez with such bitterness, I would be happy to hear it.
petted
@Matt: Japhy hasn’t worked for Queerty for a while might want to get your ducks in a row there.
Jaroslaw
#37 Celia – I’m totally with you, but it is hard to put into words what I was trying to say. No, a simple “I’m sorry” doesn’t cut it, but permanently making him a non-person as is suggested on here seems extreme. Unfortunately, it is difficult to know if someone is truly contrite or not. Ditto for “having learned something.”
Matt
@petted: Duly noted. Still waiting for an answer to my actual question though.
Rhyderrch
@Matt: So is cool with you that he feels that it’s his duty and responsibility to “out” celebrities? There are bloggers like Michael K at Dlisted who is catty but it’s all tongue in cheek and you get the overall sense that he’s a nice guy. Perez is so focused on becoming a celebrity and social climber that I stopped reading his blog long ago. He’s very mean spirited and often forgets thats celebrities that he writes about are real people with real feelings. I wouldn’t be friends with someone like that so I certainly wouldn’t admire someone like that as you apparently do. That says alot about who you are.
Merlin
It is all about a group of entertainers and how they want to be seen in the press and Perez is famous for goofing on all of them in ways that they don’t like. Do you know any pushier people in the world then selfish entertainers?
Does anyone on this planet deserved to be hit when someone doesn’t like what someone says about them? That is the whole story, violence was used to scare off a self styled critic of a group that obviously orchestrate this whole event in advance.
Hurting people to get them to change their minds is as old as slavery in America! Justify violence how ever youse guys want. It isn’t about being gay, even when it is organized bashing like in Texas or Canada!
Is Kathy next?
Lucky Luke
@Rhyderrch: Exactly! Perez’s blog used to be quite funny, but then he started to become famous himself and suddenly it was all about himself and it kept getting meanier and meanier, with nothing funny left on it. And he became exactly the kind of person he ridiculed.
RainaWeather
@matt: That took you 7 minutes?
Kid A
They put a gay person on the cover of The Advocate?
Sageun
This man is nothing more than a Jester for absurd people who find Tila-Tequila or any other well marketed human being more interesting then themselves, they’re own lives, or they’re world. His trade is one based on nonsense and mortifyingly useless information. He has a big role in perpetuating one of the most unhealthy past-times of America. It is never to late for anybody to change or have a paradigm shift, and if that is what this man is going through, than that is a beautiful thing. He can crawl away with what little dignity he has and perhaps come back as somebody that (we as gay men) would actually want representing us. But I am terribly certain that if I type into my URL bar right now Perez-Hilton.com and am taken to that pitiful site that is teeming with hate and trivial gossip, then everything that he said is completely void. I am a 20 year old college student who is seeing a new face for the gay movement, a new lifestyle, one where there is no sight of leather, sexually linked-nicknames such as twink or bear, or any other off color ideologies of the negative stereotype that has been constructed by the yestergays. Please do not get me wrong when I say that, not to discredit any gay men before me, there were millions of them who had the right idea, but there were millions more who took the wrong approach. Times are changing for my generation, and because of this paradigm shift, times will change and improve for every gay man before me. But to bring it around full circle, I will say that there is no individual who I want representing me who has pink hair. But there is a balance in everything, and for every act of hate there is an act of love, and for every Hilton there is a Dustin Lance Black. It is important that we raise our voices against what we find to be degrading, because (and I find this terribly appropriate right now considering that author of the quote) “there’s nothing that cant be done if we raise our voice as one” . And that is true, but it is also the case that some of us must learn when to tone it down for the sake of the mental evolution of America.
– Sageun
Maverick69
@ Matt,
You seem to miss the whole point. Here is what Perez was quoted as saying:
But Perez tells me that, in the heat of the moment that night, he almost chose to use a different word. “I thought about calling him the n word,” he says over the phone a week after the incident, “but I thought the f word was even worse. I was so filled with “hate” at that moment because I was “hated” on so much, and I reacted in the worst way possible.
“Hate” is the key word and emotion here. And this is what the LGBT community has been fighting for and still fights everyday – against “hate” which is a very ugly word especially used in the context Perez used it in. Perez Hilton is no different than anyone else on Fox news. Which is why the LGBT community are up in arms over the incident. The Queens at Stonewall from 1969 would be very disappointed to say the least with the way Perez Hilton handled the situation. Violence begets violence and hate begets hate. Period. The man nearly took 40 years of progress and flushed it down the drain. Yeah, Way to go for an advocate for the LGBT community – NOT !!!!!!
Bobby12
@Sageun:
nice commentary until you reference Dustin Bareback as a contrast to Mario. Dustin Bareback isn’t a leader for us either. If we want a leader let’s stay out of Hollyweird and fin our leaders elsewhere.
jason
Perez is unorthodox but I still support him. He used the word “faggot” not out of fear of gays but to mock those who are fearful of gays. It’s reverse psychology. Nothing scares a homophobe more than being called that which he uses against those he loathes.
As for those who say that Perez is harming the gay community, I think you’re being weak. Perez points out homophobia in the mainstream, such as the music industry. You, on the other hand, sit on the sidelines sniping from your gay coffee shops.
Maverick69
@ Jason
“He used the word “faggot” not out of fear of gays but to mock those who are fearful of gays. It’s reverse psychology. Nothing scares a homophobe more than being called that which he uses against those he loathes.”
Your defending this logic is the same as the “Gay Panic” argument and a very “weak” one for “hate”. Anyone with half a brain knows the “reverse psychology” method as a defense – as a last desperate measure. And no, “I’m not a gay coffee shop sipper”
jason
maverick,
Your argument in convoluted. How is my logic similar to the gay panic argument? Gay panic argument relates to using an inordinate fear of a gay person as an excuse – and justification – to beat them physically. My logic has nothing to do with this.
Perez may not be everyone’s cup of tea but at least he’s out there in the mainstream challenging homophobia. It frustrates me no end that most gay men are content to visit their saunas and sandwich shops instead of putting up a fierce front as Perez does.
jason
I’d rather have Perez on the cover than Madonna. What has Madonna ever done for gay rights? Madonna used gay men to build up a power base and then marketed herself using the same sorts of sexist, exploitative images of women you see in the straight men’s magazines – bisexual, half-naked etc etc.
Wake up, gay guys. You’re quickly becomeing a dysfunctional community. Stop worshipping these female singers and start getting behind Perez.
C-Teller
@Kid A:
lol mte
D-Sun
@jason:
“………and start getting behind Perez.”
Oh…No…No. No, no, no…No. No, no thank you…No. Just…No.
Hominy Grits
Perezhilton gets 7 mil global visitors a month at his site — while Queerty barely breaks 400K global. He not only constantly screams FULL EQUALITY for ALL GAYS
and calls out dumb ass bigots like Carrie Prejean and Maggie Gallagher —
but the kids love him.
queerty should only BE so popular, respected and influential
but hey queerty gives a great platform to the same 23 self-hating Obamapologists and old queens who have to swipe at everything that isnt the same ol’ ‘we deserve what we get’ mentality.
* stats from Quantcast.com
Malaysia
@Merlin: Easy. Just refrain from calling people names and you won’t have them racing after you. Back to Reality.
Malaysia
@Hominy Grits: Numbers mean nothing to the glbt community if they are numbers for ALL the wrong reasons. Everytime he does something stupid, it gets blown out of proportion and ALL OF US have to pay for his “sins” (whatever they may be). So who cares about his hits. PH needs to be more collected. That gossip crap will destroy him. Mark my words. GLBT people should just get away from him and fast. Move towards RESPECTABILITY. Tongue in cheek is fine, but Perez doesn’t know where that ends sometimes. I have read him and no longer do. He’s just outright mean.
Malaysia
He thinks it’s funny to be out of control. So hot headed is he that he turns and lashes out at anyone who disagrees with him. Child, he is a mess. And then there’s Tila, the one who shows her body parts and expects everyone to take her seriously when she is clearly using the moniker gay or bi to be whatever she feels she is. Nothing wrong with them as people, but their antics are defeating us in everyone’s eyes. They just go on and on and on…………… Really, I wouldn’t take us seriously, but this is all because everyone’s more concerned (around some parts) about numbers. Numbers only help when he draws them in for all the right things.
boq
Perez is no prize but wow how obviosly envious is Queerty of him? It’s really amusing when people don’t care how obvious they are. Queerty is doing everything to try to be famous but not many people really care. #ecause Queerty are jealous of everyone who is more popular than them …. that’s a lot of negative energy which shows up in negative posts like this igniting more negativity. This is a basically negative blog with bad vibes … sometimes it’s informative but mostly negative. Catty and jealous doesn’t begin to describe this sad post. Perez knows something Queerty doesn’t and one of those things is how to be a celebrity which Q is obviously dying for but is like an aging old alcoholic instead crying out ‘Look at me Look at me *Advocate! wwaaaaaaaaaaahhh boo hoo hoooo why does Perez come back on the cover of the Advocate after sll that? we queerty’s thought it was finally curtains for him’ suck it up he is famous and you are not. jealous.
SG
My favorite part of the incident is when Perez referred to will.i.am. as a “thug” masquerading as a muscian. will.i.am. is about thuggish as Miss Marple. But he’s black, so in Perez’s view, he’s a thug.
He’s the definition of mess. His falling-apart over this has been amusing to watch. He has great numbers, yes, but the idea of getting behind him because he fancies himself a gay rights activist is laughable. You only need to read the homophobic comments his readers make to realize that, while they flock to his site for its coverage, they’re hardly being swayed by his politics.
He is, in a word, gross. A buffoon. I don’t think it would be a stretch to assume he’s racist. He’s not bright. To call someone a faggot out of anger after the campaign he waged against Isaiah Washington proves he doesn’t get the very principle that mdade Isaiah Washington’s outburst a bad thing.
No one respects him. For good reason.
jonny
@Matt: “If anyone can explain to me why mainstream gays seem to loathe Perez with such bitterness, I would be happy to hear it.”
as far as i can work out, here it is: bursting with internalised homophobia and a desperate need to present a bland, family-friendly image of gays to middle america, they get nauseous at an unapologetically gay, self-confident, high-profile figure ruffling people’s feathers. they’re scared that the more attention he gets, the more straights will notice that some gays fulfil the stereotypes of being gossipy, dramatic, camp, bitchy.
so they abuse him as loudly as they can. they call him a fat, ugly, pink-haired freakshow. they scream to the mainstream: “don’t worry, we hate fags like him too!”. when he gets beaten up by a violent thug they loudly join in with the overwhelming chorus that he brought it on himself (brave move!). and now, just for getting on the cover of a magazine, they’re out again calling him a “stain” on the community.
here’s what i think. the community isn’t “stained” by people we wouldn’t take home to meet the AFA. i was never a fan of perez, but after watching these months of jealous, bitter abuse, i think i might be now.
Celia
I get the impression that all the “you hate Perez because you just can’t handle the sheer magnitude of his awesomeness” people may actually be Perez himself. Okay, I’m no doubt wrong about that as I am about everything else, but it’s still a silly argument. Personally, I don’t hate him (I try not to hate anyone), but I do think he behaves badly, I don’t think he behaved well on this occasion, and it’s okay for people to say so. The gay community isn’t actually all that communal, and that’s not always a terrible thing. The fact that one gay man can strongly disagree with another gay man is not proof that the former is “jealous” of the latter.
Geoff M
@SG: That made me laugh out loud….perfectly said!
Ousslander
@Celia: I think you are correct about certain poster being mario. Also the gay “community” is not a monolith of thinking, although some would like n think it should be and whoa is be if you don’t goose step inline.
Yes the reason i don’t like mario is that i’m bursting with internalized homophobia
Tim in SF
Another anti-Perez post.
Must be a weekday at Queerty.
Tony
Sorry, but Perez has always been a self-hating racist retard who happens to be gay. He is inarticulate, mean spirited and hateful. Why is he somehow a spokesperson for a community he obviously hates?
And stating that he “wanted” to call him the “n” word. This says a lot about him as a person. Why would he ever want to use such a word to insult another person? And using the “f” word in its place, what a douchebag.
Dave
@Merlin: Does anyone on this planet deserved to be hit when someone doesn’t like what someone says about them?
This. Exactly this, and nothing else.
Everything else aside, what it boils down to is that you don’t get to hit people just because they were mean. I just have to shake my head at all these commenters who think he got what was coming to him. Really? So if you call Fred Phelps names, he’s allowed to hit you? Nice to know.
Rhydderch
@jonny: You’re portraying Perez to be some sort of victim when the reality is that he victimizes people everyday and has capitalized on the pain and misery of others. My disdain of Perez has nothing to do with his outspokenness but in his line of work, which is petty and trite. Don’t act like he’s Gandhi. The guy peddles in gossip and sleaze and makes no apology for it. Yet after the stink he raised about Isaiah Washington he found it wise to ponder “what is the most offensive thing I can say to this guy to piss him off?” Calls him the F word and then surprise surprise he got punched. I don’t condone violence at all but if you call a straight man a faggot or if you were considering calling a black man the N word, you’d better put on your boxing gloves because those are fighting words.
Miss Malevolent
@ousslander:
I can’t believe you mouth breathers are still repeating that heinous LIE that Hillary Clinton’s campaign race baited.
Stop being a liar.
Rhydderch
@Dave: pacifist much? Dude let’s be real if you’re in a heated argument with a raving lunatic who has been drinking, then use the worst name possible to describe that lunatic, more than like you will be punched in the mouth. So for the love of God get off your moral high horse. If Perez wants to be a top dog in the sleaze business that’s fine but he should be prepared to be called out by the very individuals he trash talks and get his comeuppence. He should have stood there and taken his medicine and then simply walked away instead of fanning the flames and hurling insults back.
Lamesy
Anyone else catch the admission that he’d “always known that a lot of gays didn’t like me”?
Really, he’s admitting to putting on the worst kind of gay minstrel show. He throws hissy fits and gets catty (performs his gayness) purely for the amusement and consumption of straight people. This also explains the, uh, temperament and caliber of his comments section. His website is where straight people go to be shocked by gay attitude.
He is essentially a big fat Uncle Tom.
Bad Boy
Good riddens to Perez. He’s such a nuisance.
BrianZ
@jason: ” start getting behind Perez.”
Talk about a boner-killer. Whew!
Dave
All we really have to do is write Mario’s advertisers that we will no longer support their products since they are supporting HATE from someone that chooses between nigger and faggot as a means to degrade someone. IT IS THAT SIMPLE. Make sure whatever projects he is working on hear from us and then that will serve his ego.
Ousslander
@Miss@Celia: Malevolent:what r you talking about? There so many lies to keep track of.
Do you breath out ya ass?
Bertie
@Malaysia:
while you probably drive with a MEAN PEOPLE SUCK bumper sticker
I think MEAN witty entrepreneurs who scream for gay equality RULE
Gore Vidal Jr.
This aesthetically displeasing instrument of chaos is the perfect celebrity for a culture like ours.
Tony12
@Dave:
Great idea!!! Contact his advertisers and tell them you won’t buy their products if they continue to associate their brands with Perez Hilton.
me
give him a chance. i think he’s trying to reform himself. we’ll see.
Brian
WHY is this no talent famous? What a douchebag!