If Kevin Hart is expecting the LGBT community to support his next movie, he might be a little disappointed. The vertically-challenged actor and comedian, who is profiled and featured on the cover of the current issue of Rolling Stone, revisited an old joke during the interview about his fears of having a gay son.
During the 2010 Seriously Funny tour, Hart told audiences, “One of my biggest fears is my son growing up and being gay. That’s a fear. Keep in mind, I’m not homophobic…Be happy. Do what you want to do. But me, as a heterosexual male, if I can prevent my son from being gay, I will.” The bit continues with Hart imagining scenarios of how he would react to any possible displays of his son’s homosexuality by repeatedly telling the child “Stop, that’s gay!”
When discussing this with Rolling Stone, Hart explained, “It’s about my fear. I’m thinking about what I did as a dad, did I do something wrong, and if I did, what was it? Not that I’m not gonna love my son or think about him any differently. The funny thing within that joke is it’s me getting mad at my son because of my own insecurities — I panicked.”
He goes on to explain, “It has nothing to do with him, it’s about me. That’s the difference between bringing a joke across that’s well thought-out and saying something just to ruffle feathers.”
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We’re not exactly sure what to make of this thought process; however, telling any kid to stop acting gay, kind of does have something to do with the child and has very little to do with you, Kevin. It creates shame, inhibition, and a belief that there is something wrong with him or her. Furthermore, implying to an audience that the fault of a gay son or daughter lies within the parent is just wrong.
Hart concluded his thoughts about that “fear of a gay son” joke by stating, “I wouldn’t tell that joke today, because when I said it, the times weren’t as sensitive as they are now. I think we love to make big deals out of things that aren’t necessarily big deals, because we can. These things become public spectacles. So why set yourself up for failure?”
Not to mention that if you can’t coherently explain a joke five years later, it’s probably best to retire it.
While we wish continued success to Kevin Hart (because wishing failure would be spiteful and petty), we do have a newsflash for him: Our current times are not so much about sensitivity as they are about being progressive and forward-thinking. A gay son has nothing to do with bad parenting. As a matter of fact, there is no failure in having a gay child. Why? Because that’s the way they were born.
Perhaps Kevin should reach out to PFLAG for some additional insight about this topic.
Ladbrook
So basically he’s no different from Pat Robertson. Fuck off.
Brian JC Kneeland
He obviously has no idea that gays are born this way! Did he fail as a father – yes by his very discriminatory speech!
Paul Tidd
Be careful what you don’t wish for.
Lewis Kinslayer
Funny I, still, don’t want to watch his “comedy.”
Kevin Kennedy
Trade him then!
Alexander Mcafee-Chang
I still don’t think he’s talented.
Jose Salazar
What he doesn’t want is what he shall be blessed with
Halina Tantau
Agree with you Kevin !!! Can not understand : whats the problem ? That your son is gay ? You shoud be happy he’s not dying of cancer -that’s the problem . hug him and say : I LOVE YOU MY SON ! Like Idid ti my son when he told me -he is My son !!!!!!!! God said LOVE !!!! Get REAL !!
Kamal Patel
Never heard of him, but besides that, you dont get to choose, accept what you are given as a gift and nurture and love and protect
Robbie McDonald
talentless midget
Dwight Hart
I wash my hands clean of him. A self loathing dead beat dad. I am gay and my dad disowned me but I could careless cause he never ever was in my life.
jason smeds
I stopped reading Rolling Stone years ago. It’s no longer relevant to our culture at all.
David Rudd
Joseph C Landis-Midnight
His entire act is him yelling. He isn’t the least bit funny.
Maxie Grant
Got news for ya Kevin. Your gay son won’t want you either. He also may not want to live. Is it really that important for you to be right about this joke?
Michael Haynes
meghanada
Since we’re being honest, I wouldn’t want a Black son-in-law, myself.
Roland Hamburger
he steals all his material anyways and isn’t funny.
David Nuijens
I wouldn’t go, but just because he isn’t funny. Wouldn’t waste my time on that loser.
James R Carter
Like himself? I mean, let’s go there…
Giancarlo85
Hey Kevin, I don’t want your shitty movies!
Ride Along, Get Hard, The Wedding Ringer… yea… real hits there. Not.
Stop making these shit movies.
Damian Omar Plaza
Vertically challenged! Another comedian just lost fans.
William Mc Gregor
You do realize that most parentes of Gay kids will have the thoughts he jokes about right? And most will see how stupid it sounds coming from another person. Aren’t we always telling others that their problem with Gay people is because of their insecurities? He never said he wouldn’t love his sone any less and that is the point. At least he confronts his own insecurities and can joke about them unlike many larents who flat out refuse to accept their Gay child. For me this is a non issue!!
Justin Riley-Velez
Wtf is wrong with you people. I think he’s a hack but he said it during a comedy bit 5 years ago. Really? Now it’s appalling? You know because comedians are never suppose to be controversial………It’s nice to see gay people can be sheep too .
Bob LaBlah
Kevin sounds like a typical father. What he wants is what every other father more or less wants. A son who will be both a son and a buddy to him. It is a bit selfish but as I said, he wants what nearly all other fathers want. I don’t think he said it in a derogatory manner. I think he said it quit diplomatically. Most parents do look at their kids at some point while they are children and think about grandkids and such.
And by the way, I love how he takes the short jokes aimed at him in the movies. You go dude, and maybe one day we can see that round booty of yours in the raw.
Shaun Adams
i use to like him, not no more!
Will Glitzern
Vertically AND mentally challenged. Parents can’t prevent their kids from being gay, just like his parents couldn’t prevent him from being stupid.
James Halat
I think it’s an honest approach to his own insecurities. It’s hard enough being gay while understanding what that means. Imagine trying to understand from the outside, when you know, as Kevin Hart obviously does, that the world is filled with horrible people who would make his gay son’s life miserable. I just hope that it really is just a joke in his act (in an attempt to have a serious discussion), and he wouldn’t actually do that to his kid.
enfilmigult
Sheesh. The reason he shouldn’t tell it is that it makes no sense—you can’t prevent someone from being gay. I thought only senior citizens still thought that’s how it works.
enfilmigult
(And yes, Kevin Hart, that IS homophobic as shit. Sorry.)
Trae Phillips
U are stupid Kevin Hart. Your not even funny dude. Dumb ass
Clyde Barrowe
It was a joke used in a comedy routine, get over it. Its a joke, not a dick. Don’t take it so hard.
Craig Shapiro
Fact; men on the ‘down low’ behave just like Kevy. Because intelligence would evident
Cam
And I’m sure there are lots of Mississippi parents who wouldn’t want black grandchildren. Just think Kevin Hart, you’re just the same as those folks. Great Joke huh?
Alex Rothwell
Really this guy is to much.
Jeffrey Thomas
Be careful, karma is gay butch bitch Kevin
John Kuehnle
I read on IMDB. That he won’t tell jokes abour rape or homosexuality (so 70s)…
Richard J. Spurgeon
So what, who cares. That’s his son and HIS preference. If his son turns out Gay, then he has to deal with it, but until then, continue to raise your son to be a man! Enough said! Philly foreverâ??ð?¾ï¸
Paul Leonard
Be careful of what push away , just saying …
Brian J Curtis
Homophobia is still a huge issue in the black community. They are typically less educated and cling to those bibles!
Terry Purdue
You get what you get, you don’t get to pick and choose like they’re some kind of chicken or deli!
Charles Sherwood Morrill
Obviously people did not read this article. Or don’t know how to read. In a lump sum , he said he will love his son no matter what bit he as a straight man would have no idea how to raise his kid when gay subjects came up
tford216
All of the people commenting are stupid. Seriously, you think because gay marriage has become legal or your parents seem to accept you that they have not had those thoughts or that they don’t continue to have those thoughts. I applaud Kevin for not just saying stupid stuff like “gay is wrong” full stop. He seems to be trying to grapple with his own insecurities. And yes he may realize that gay people are born this way but parents castigate themselves for everything that goes on in their kids life. It seems like the intelligence level for Queerty readers is really low.
Bob LaBlah
Eddie Murphy (remember him) has/had (is he still alive?) a comedy routine where every other “joke” had something to do with faggotry. A few of them actually made me chuckle but before long it turned it nothing else but a d/l guy making jokes about he group he knew no one really cared about. Or should I say cared about at that time.
How times have changed. I applaud Kevin for avoiding rape and gay jokes. Only a smart guy who knows how to look down the road would know to avoid those two topics. When a “comedian” has to start bashing a certain group or make comments hoping to get a laugh while ignoring the victims have been scarred for life something is seriously wrong with the routine and the comedian. I guess that why no one even mentions ol’ Eddie Murphy anymore. If it keeps up in a year or so people are going to be asking “Eddie who”. It’s also rumored he has HIV (Murphy).
Dennis Sandoval
does he want a black son?
Ricco Mashatt
I do not want my kids to grow up to be like him gay or straight. My kid will grow up healthy loved respectful and happy.
L Daniel E Kaufman
I started to get mad then I was like ..
wait…this is Queerty…
The facts are always slanted.. ..half right things.. with them.
This was a question that was dredged up by Rollingstone magazine and now passed on by Queerty.. …
Bauhaus
@Bob LaBlah:
“Kevin sounds like a typical father. What he wants is what every other father more or less wants. A son who will be both a son and a buddy to him.”
That’s not what I wanted, it’s what I got, probably because I have never treated my son poorly, and also because I don’t judge him.
Desert Boy
A black, homophobic dwarf. Flush this worthless piece of shit.
geoespar
Let’s be honest he’s a closet homophobe and I don’t care what he says about support for the Gay Community he’s full of bullshit.
Kieran
This is the same kind of belittling “joke” that was popular with Jewish comics in the 1970s who’d laugh that the only way Jewish parents could ever accept their child marrying a gentile would be if they first brought home a “schwartze”.
But at least now everybody knows Kevin Hart is a homophobe. And we should all act accordingly.
Kieran
@Cam: Not just Mississippi.
Brian N Cobb
That’s his business, then.
Luis Filipe Spencer Freitas
There’a a difference between wanting and accepting/supporting. It sounds like he’d do neither. That’s the sad part.
Gabriel Reyes
He’s short. He’ll say and do anything to get approval.
Tackle
@meghanada: @Cam: @Brian J Curtis: @Desert Boy: And you r@cist shitheads proves that r@cism is still rampant in the gay white community. Never fails that every time someone Black is posted, the same ole r@cist drivel comes out of your damn stupid mouths. One Black person says something, it becomes the whole Black community. I bet some of you are angry that the guy screaming antigay slurs inside that West Hollywood Starbucks wasn’t Black.
There was no need to even bring in r@cial analogies considering that if he had a son, his son would be Black…
Black Pegasus
Maybe Kevin Hart suffers from post traumatic stress disorder.
http://youtu.be/2YYgnPCaqxk
Greg Morris
And I still don’t think he is funny.
Black Pegasus
@Tackle: that’s to be expected when a website only features Black Men in a negative light. It’s a continual mental conditioning that perpetuates this attitudes. Would ne nice if we could see some diversity on this rag, but whatevers.
moldisdelicious
i notice how this website always seems to bring up black people only when they’re homophobic or when they’re known artists or tv personalities that just so happened to be gay or bi. don’t see any ordinary people getting any shine or whatever. just nothing but white people 95% of the time as if blacks, asians, hispanics, and nonwhites don’t exist.
Me2
It’s obvious that most of you only the read the headline and not the article. But the really sad thing is the racism in these comments. I’m sure that many of your “accepting” parents, straight friends, peers, co-workers, etc. feel the same exact way that Kevin feels.
moldisdelicious
@Tackle:
let them losers talk because they already lost. these lames think they’re powerful on the computer but are scared to death of black people.
Scott Crone
Grow up my friend.
Kevin J Desmond
Kevin Hart is a bigot and an idiot.
Richard Burnside
I hope his son isn’t born a minority, like black, for instance.
John Scott
I was just scrolling through and just wanted to say I do not care what Kevin Hart wants
Ai-Quoc N. Heller
Girl bye
Bauhaus
If you can not fathom the possibility of having a gay child, don’t have children to begin with.
Mike Jasinski
Poor man’s Eddie Murphy. Cue Randy Newman’s “Short People.” By the way, I’ve never liked this short, tiny fucker.
tford216
@Bauhaus: That would be most parents before they found out their children were gay. What world do you live in where people don’t need to grow?
Lestar
he’s just worried of what his popular crowd of Hollywood friends(actors,rappers,sport stars) would think of him…he just seems to be the type of person who cares an awful lot about what his ‘bros might think..typical teenager.
Bauhaus
@tford216:
Cut the crap. I live in a world in which I placed the needs of my children before my own. That meant raising them in a manner I didn’t have to “grow” (atone), for crushing their soul and spirit.
Ladbrook
I’ve always gotten this DL gay vibe from Hart… now I’m sure of it. Self-hate will eat away at your soul, Kevin. Just sayin’.
Lestar
Also, what is he doing/going to do to prevent his son from possibly coming into contact with that horrible airborne gay virus? Lots and Lots of basketball,American football and Entourage watching sessions? I’m really interested in what he’s planning to do so that his son doesn’t end up in hell;you know? with all the gnashing of teeth and man flesh burning business going on down there.
Blackceo
@Tackle: @Black Pegasus: @moldisdelicious:
Yeah as soon as I saw this article and the number of comments I bet myself an over/under how many comments it would take to see a r@cially tinged one make an appearance. Nothing brings this place together more quite like the opportunity to do that. Anywho….what Kevin Hart said showed his ignorance. Him not knowing that sexual orientation is determined at birth means he needs some education. But, I didn’t find his comments to be hateful. I found them to be ignorant.
I think a fear of many Black men is that their sons may be gay and its not always because they are homophobic, but rather it will make life that much more difficult for their child. My dad was fully accepting of me when I came out, but his fear was that I would face situations of double discrimination for being a man of color and gay. So initially he said that if it were up to him he would want me to be straight because he didn’t want my life to be difficult, because thats what parents want for their children. I knew what he meant when he said that. It wasnt about him being ashamed or embarrassed of me, or him loving me any less and he said that. Now I know that many of the idiots who post on here don’t understand intersectionality, but try stepping outside of your little bubbles and look at the full context and perspective of others sometimes. Funny how Queerty never discusses r@cism in the gay community here when there are countless examples of it.
Jarodd Washington
I just don’t like kevin
Dennis Duarte
He’ll do whatever to prevent his son fr being gay .. Like what? Not calling him a sissy or slapping him around? Heck by the time the kid knows..it would be too late!
Cam
@Tackle: said…. “””@meghanada: @Cam: @Brian J Curtis: @Desert Boy: And you r@cist shitheads proves that r@cism is still rampant in the gay white community. Never fails that every time someone Black is posted, the same ole r@cist drivel comes out of your damn stupid mouths. “””
Well you just gave yourself away douche. My comment said specifically that what hard is saying is bigoted, just like rac-ists in Mississippi who don’t want one of their kids to marry somebody black.
So I called him a bigot and you call me rac-ist? What you just proved is that you are the type of bigot who attacks anybody who dissagrees with Hart. Well sorry, but what Hart said was bigoted, and is on the same level with bigots who hate others because of their race.
If you disagree then you obviously don’t think hating gays is bigotry, and that would make you just as bad as hart, or those parents from Mississippi I referenced.
corey
I honestly don’t know who this dude is!
AtticusBennett
i made this video in 2010, and kevin hart’s company forced me to remove it, so i posted it to my blog. crank the sound up and check it out.
this isn’t funny. it never was and it never will be.
http://littlekiwilovesbauhaus.blogspot.ca/2010/09/do-you-find-this-funny.html
Tackle
@Cam: Damn you are fu@king ignorant by trying to correlate r@ce with sexuality, and especially here, since his son would be BLACK. Read the post by@Blackceo: to get a damn clue. And regardless of how much someone denies the obvious, you CAN always tell a damn r@cist by their obsession with Blacks. I’ve notice that almost every post about a Black person, the big@ts will surely show up. With YOU sitting front and center.
Ladbrook
@Tackle: You’re out of line. Cam is a regular poster here on Q and I’ve never read anything he’s written that even comes close to being r@cist in tone or intent. Calling out a homophobe for being a homophobe is perfectly legitimate commentary here, and the term applies to Hart… regardless of his skin color. In addition, no one should get a pass for his bigotry just because s/he happens to be a member of another minority group. Bigotry IS bigotry. That crap doesn’t fly here, so lay off.
Jamie Hincks
Trust me Kevin, a gay son would not want someone like you to be their father.
Kirk Montrealer
Magic Johnson has a gay and very flamboyant cross dressing son..And so far so good.
DC Sheehan
Everyone defending him is buying into his spin. But as the article states being gay is the joke, not his insecurities. The focus is ‘that’s gay’ (ie. stop being a queer) not ‘I’m funny because I’m squeamish about gay stuff’.
Arcamenel
I swear some of you didn’t make it past the first quote. He makes it very clear SEVERAL TIMES that the issue would be him getting over his own feelings but he wouldn’t love his hypothetical gay son any less. I imagine the biggest question that parents ask themselves on a daily basis is are they doing a good job. It isn’t easy being gay even in America, most people gay or straight know that there is discrimination. It’s not unreasonable for a parent to ask themselves if they did something wrong. However that is an issue they themselves have to deal with. I’m sure even the most accepting parents have had the question cross their minds at some point.
Also why is it whenever a story features a person of color, especially black people, you r@cist come out in droves? Also stop conflating r@ce with sexual orientation, obviously there are parallels but if you aren’t a person of color you need to stop trying to play that card. It’s disingenuous.
Masc Pride
@tford216: Totally agree. Comedians just say what a lot of people are thinking. They don’t have that awful responsibility of being super PC.
@Kirk Montrealer: I think EJ Johnson is exactly the type of son Kevin Hart doesn’t want.
If I had a son, I wouldn’t want him to be gay either. I’d be worried about his health (both physical and mental) all the time. Gay men are more likely to get HIV than get married; who wants that for their kid?
Avery Alvarez
Well, I like that Hart has the self-awareness to realize that the problem is his, not his hypothetical gay son’s, or any other gay person. If only more homophobes could understand this simple truth, it would go a long way to solving the disease of the mind known as homophobia.
@Arcamenel: There’s no need for the Oppression Olympics here, which you and others want to play. Do you really wanna play “who had/has it worse?
Do you really think that’s constructive, or do you know that it’s divisive.
Bally Sangha
It’s not like anyone has a choice in the matter…
Kangol
Did most people commenting read the article? Hart admits he’s h0mophobic. He knows it’s wrong. He knows the problem isn’t with and on his son, but on him. Maybe he’s a closet case or DL. He evidently has problems dealing with sexual difference.
@meghanada: I knew it wouldn’t be long in the comments before the r@cism reared its head. UGH! @Cam: There are black people in Mississippi, you know. You mean white r@cists wouldn’t want him as their son-in-law, etc. @Desert Boy: What does his being “black” have to do with it? Do you mention the r@ce of most of the homophobes Queerty posts about, who are white? Do you?
Cam
@Tackle:
And there it is, you don’t think Hart said anything wrong because you don’t consider attacking LGBT’S as bigotry.
No wonder you are attacking anybody who calls out Hart, you agree with him, exposing your own anti-gay bigotry.
Cagnazzo82
@Masc Pride: If we’re being honest, I would also want my son to be straight.
Mostly because I’m selfish, and I’d like for him to propagate my lineage in a way I naturally wouldn’t pursue 🙂
People are up in arms hurling every insult in the book from attacking Kevin for being short, or even getting racial… Let’s be honest people, most gay parents if they have kids likely wouldn’t mind them being gay… but they’d prefer them being straight.
That’s just the hard truth. People who have kids want to multiply. It’s easier if your kid is straight from the get-go.
SonOfKings
I don’t agree with his homophobia, but I’d still bang that hot little piece of dark chocolate man.
Ogre Magi
@SonOfKings: Well, he is a tiny piece of dark chocolate. Maybe we should call him Hershey Squirt
Cam
@Cagnazzo82:
No, that’s YOUR truth, don’t hang your baggage on others.
Chris
I don’t my son to be a short comedian, either. But it’s not about them; it’s me……
Masc Pride
@Cagnazzo82: I think that’s pretty accurate. Acceptance is great, but a lot of our parents would still probably do back flips if we went totally hetero and gave them grandkids the conventional way. I don’t see anything really homophobic about Hart’s interview. He’s being honest and–given his profession–maybe a bit provocative. All good parents want their kids to have better lives, and anything that threatens that is unfavorable.
DimAsAnEmber
To be honest, I would want my children to be straight too. I would never love them any less, or judge them, but it would be hard. I want my children to have the best lives they can, and if I had a child come out today, I would be afraid for them. Bigotry still exists quite strongly, and I wouldn’t want them to have any extra struggle or hardship. It’s unfair, but you are treated differently, and people will be cruel. Being born into the majority allows them to avoid so much. So I find his viewpoint valid.
Joel Quinones
Trust me the universe heard that.
Eldred
@William Mc Gregor: :You do realize that most parentes of Gay kids will have the thoughts he jokes about right? And most will see how stupid it sounds coming from another person. Aren’t we always telling others that their problem with Gay people is because of their insecurities? He never said he wouldn’t love his sone any less and that is the point. At least he confronts his own insecurities and can joke about them unlike many larents who flat out refuse to accept their Gay child. For me this is a non issue!!:
— Exactly, look how hateful these comments are. Clearly NONE of them even read the damn article.
Eldred
@Maxie Grant: Another idiot that chose to hate first, instead of actually reading the damn thing, and understanding what he’s saying.
tford216
@Bauhaus: I live in a world where I had to take on the responsibility of my nephew from my sister and I prayed that he is straight. He is already black, his biological parents are not in his life…he does not need another thing to make him feel out of the mainstream.I am out and proud so he sees me living an okay life but I would not wish the pain that I have felt as a black gay man on my child. As a minority both racially and sexually I am aware of the messages that society sends to me in order to make me feel less than. Nobody escapes that. You either are the recipient or you somehow carry those messages out on others. If I were straight I would not want a gay child but if he was I would love him. Just like countless other imperfect parents have managed to do. Those parents just don’t talk about it openly.
moldisdelicious
@Blackceo:
of course they don’t. it’s funny how folks act like homophobia is more damaging and dangerous when it comes from a black person compared to a white person even though white people were the ones that started the whole homophobia shit. last time i checked, it was white people that were making all sorts of laws throughout history prohibiting homosexuality. now, that it’s becoming legal, you have folks trying to rewrite history and act like it ain’t that. with the way these folks talk, you would never think that a white person could be homophobic and even when a white person is, they don’t even go about dehumanizing and demonizing them like how they do with a black person. they’ll see that white person as just being ignorant but a black person as being a real threat to society where they MUST shut him down.
Giancarlo85
Funny how some on here say if they had kids they would wish they would be straight. Wow, that’s sending such a great message. I wish some of the cowards on here would just stay hidden where they live their own lives. Learn to have some strength and courage.
tford216
@Giancarlo85: No one is coward for wishing that their child would have an easier life. That is very different from the Whisper article about people themselves wishing that they straight. I love who I am as a black gay man but I want the best experiences for my kin.
zapple68
no talent tiny bigot!
Giancarlo85
@tford216: No. It’s just cowardice and it doesn’t give a good message to LGBTQQI youth.
youarekiddingme
@Masc Pride: Can’t even respond to the first part of your post…
The second part: …”Gay men are more likely to get HIV than get married…”!
Wtf?
Where’s your proof or evidence of that? Are you pulling that out of your ass? I can’t believe you could even bring up such a comparison…of all things HIV? You are a sick bastard!
DimAsAnEmber
@tford216: I wouldn’t get into it with him, it’s really not worth it. He can believe whatever he’d like.
Cagnazzo82
@Giancarlo85: Human beings by nature want their children to have better lives than they do. No one here can deny that.
No one’s saying that they don’t want a gay kid. But it should be acknowledged that if the kid is straight life will be a certain percentage easier. This will be true more often than not.
And if you, as the parent, are already straight it makes even more sense to want your kid to be straight. I mean let’s be honest, if you ask a straight person point blank if they want their kid to be gay or straight, they’re likely to say they would love their kid either way, but they’d prefer their kid to be straight.
A) They want their kid to be like them. B) They’d prefer not to have their kids grow up with added challenges.
Entirely logical from their perspective, and I totally understand that.
Ricky Redick
His loss
martinbakman
@Me2: How do you think it feels for young, closeted, gay kids to hear a celebrity say they don’t want a gay kid. It feels horrible. That’s how it feels, wondering if their own family feels the same way as Kevin Hart. Why can’t that clown just shut up? I don’t see what his appeal is anyway.
meghanada
Kevin’s ghetto family and neighbors are the reason Prop. 8 passed.
meghanada
@moldisdelicious: I don’t see many straight white people on this site, tbqh. If you want more Black people to be represented in gay media, have more Black people come out from down low.
meghanada
@Arcamenel: Race isn’t sacred, bud. If analogies involving it are logically sound, people are going to make them, whether this offends your SJW snowflake sensibilities or not. Get over yourself for your own good.
Tackle
@Ladbrook: You try and call me out by saying I’m out of line on here, and don’t SAY sh!t about these assh@les who are posting r@cist comments. And secondly, @Cam is a grown ass man who can wipe his own ass.He gets himself into sh!t, so let him get himself out of it. He has made many r@cist and anti-black comments on here, yet he and his supporters are blind to it, and hate being called on it. And I don’t give a flying fu@k about @Cam being a regular poster on here. I’m a regular poster on here and so are many others. He’s nothing special to Queerty.
Tackle
@Cam: I swear you lack reading comprehension. No where in his skit did he attack LGBT people.He was clearly talking about himself, having a son, and latter admitted, it was his problem. That’s you being delusional. R@cism does that to you. You and your “ilk” want to believe so bad that he’s attacking LGBT people, so you can have a reason to justify your big@try. You always try and skirt & divert like now with some BS claim, of me attacking anyone who disagrees with Kevin. No I’m speaking out against all the unnecessary r@cist comments, unlike you…
Cam
@Tackle: You support Hart and keep attacking anybody who points out his bigotry as rac-ist, but …
1. You can’t point out anything I said that qualified and. .
2. You demonstrated your own anti-gay bigotry and freaked out because I called you out on it.
Hart said something bigoted and you support him.
William Holahan
Kevin Hart has no choice in the matter. Kevin could use some family therapy sessions.
Tackle
@Cam: Others noticed your big@try also, and you foolish attempt to correlate r@ce & sexuality here.
His son would be Black. All gay people are not White. All gay people living in Mississippi are not White:So your stupid correlation does not work. Get it! Major fail on your part. Perhaps you would be a lot more happier & wiser if you crawled out of the asses of Black people. Don’t you have more important things to do?? You can’t reason with damn egocentric a fool.
Joseph Bernstein
Why does our opinion matter? Do we personally know him? No we don’t. And EVERY FATHER DOESNT WANT A GAY SON. But what makes the father in the gay community is how he actually reacts when the son in questioning comes out. So leave the man be. So he voiced how he doesn’t want a gay son… Get over it. It’s not like he’s gay bashing, or not giving marriage licenses…. Get mad and fight the right battles this is not one of them.
Cam
@Tackle:
And you still can’t point to what in my comment was rac-it AND you completely avoided the fact that you nor only agree with Hart’s comment, but that you attacked the very idea that attacking LGBTs is in any way bigotry.
Your posts on other topics also made you seem anti-gay but your commentary here solidified that.
Just another anti-gay troll.
Gregory McDaniel
that’s OK. I don’t want him to be a father either.
Tackle
@Cam: GO FU@K YOURSELF, Since no one else wants to!
Giancarlo85
@Cagnazzo82: That’s such an awesome message. You might as well tell LGBTQQI youth they are better off not existing and that even other gay men wish you were straight. Personally, I think some on here are causing far more damage than they realize and should keep their mouths shut. I don’t know what decade some grew up in here (I would presume the 1950s), but it’s 2015.
@Tackle: Tackle, Kevin Hart is a bigoted homophobic DUMBASS who makes shitty movies. Are you denying that fact (well the part about shitty movies was more my opinion LOL)?
From what I have seen here you are denying that he is homophobic? Who are you bullshitting?
Masc Pride
@youarekiddingme: I actually did not pull it out of my ass. I based it on well-known CDC data along with Williams Institute statistics on married same-sex couples. Reality is unpleasant sometimes. Let’s review:
-Gay/bisexual men are only an estimated 2 percent demographic (U.S.).
-Almost 60 percent of people living with HIV in the U.S. are gay/bi men. Frightening!
-Only about 140,000 of same sex couples are married, in domestic partnerships or civil unions.
-Predictably, two-thirds of that 140,000 are lesbian couples.
The number of gay (male) married couples is small. The number of gay men with HIV is massive! So between HIV and marriage, HIV is far more likely to happen for gay/bi guys. Something to look forward to! lol
Until you can civilize yourself, how about you don’t respond to any of my posts?
Yves Rosier
Salut tu est reste le meilleur ami des gays..
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Carl Cordell
If you don’t want a gay child, don’t have children. It is a roll of the dice and we don’t need any more children tossed out on the street by parents that are incapable of unconditional love.
Samuel Johnson-Erickson
Its cus he’s gay.
youarekiddingme
@Masc Pride: Once again, great scientific theory…NOT! Let’s see, either married or HIV??? ….more likely to get apples than oranges…more likely to go bust than get blackjack…Oh, I get it now, you’re an odds maker in Las Vegas! Funny how people aren’t a deck of cards! You know what’s even better? Young LGBT kids will grow up to be doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, firemen, (god help us politicians) and all sorts of productive members of society. Some will be married. Some won’t. Some may contract HIV and still live long productive lives. HIV is no longer, necessarily, a death sentence.
Who wants HIV for their kid? Obviously no one, but being gay (as this ass hole says) is not a sentence to contracting HIV! I just don’t see how you get from Here to There?
Where’s your argument going? Makes NO SENSE! Statistically, males die before females…so I guess your mother didn’t want to have a male either huh? Who would want a male because he would DIE Sooner! Who wants that for their kid?
Let’s go to your closing statement: “…HIV is far more likely to happen for gay/bi guys. Something to look forward to! lol” LOL???? LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!! YOU DEMENTED FUCKIN BASTARD!! You obviously never lost anyone to HIV/AIDS. Never helped care for anyone with HIV/AIDS. LAUGH OUT LOUD. SICK!!!
Civilize MYSELF??? How about doing a little volunteer work in the LGBT Community, specifically with HIV/AIDS, and give yourself some HUMANITY!
Giancarlo85
He’s skewing data again. Pay no attention to masc pride shithead. Most people in this world who have HIV/AIDS are heterosexual. His argument never makes sense. It’s an idiotic argument and he’s basically saying AIDS is a gay disease. He’s a moron.
Giancarlo85
And the idiot pulled stats from a biased website and claim it is fact. The group with the quickest spread of HIV are actually women of minority status (ethnic and racial minorities).
Tackle
@Giancarlo85: First off, I’m not even a Kevin Heart fan, and I have no idea if he is a homophobic dumbass.Never seen a Kevin Heart movie, and for the most part, do not pay attention to him. And if you claim to have seen me on here denying that he’s homophobic, then you are not seeing things clearly. I’m neither confirming, nor denying: I’m simply calling out the posters who are leaving r@cist comments. That’s unnecessary, since he did not say anything specific about White gay men in THIS skit…
Eric Lloyd Mettner
Power bottoms, like Kevin, often have to go to great lengths to display their masculinity, especially if they have none.
Giancarlo85
@Tackle: I’ve seen what he has said before and I can say he is definitely homophobic. I have seen what you have said here and it’s mostly stupid. I don’t see what was r*cist about cam’s post.
Timothy Herbert
we don’t want him to have children so…
Masc Pride
@youarekiddingme: Oooooh, that was long! lol
Very little of what you’ve maniacally replied with is a response to anything I’ve said. As far as men statistically dying before women, that is true. However, since the overwhelming majority of parents will die long before their children, having a boy vs. having girl wouldn’t be concerning for the parents (at least not for that reason).
Take a deep breath, pop a Xanny (I know you have some) and try again.
Jonathan Rodriguez
My father’s adult cousin said the same thing. Said up and down how he didn’t want a gay son.
His some came out gayer than Christmas. Lol
AtticusBennett
thing is this – get over your insecurities. “i don’t know how i’d feel about having a gay son” is a surefire way to keep your son feeling like he has to remain in the Closet. which some of you who are still closeted to your parents know too well.
my parents love having a gay son. it’s enriched their lives.
meghanada
@Masc Pride: “Gay men are more likely to get HIV than get married”
Because marriage was banned countrywide just a little while ago, you dumb closeted freak.
meghanada
@Masc Pride:
“Gay/bisexual men are only an estimated 2 percent demographic (U.S.).
-Almost 60 percent of people living with HIV in the U.S. are gay/bi men. Frightening!”
This is wrong.
The 2 percent of the population are only those who admitted being gay in an interview with the CDC. The face-to-face methodology used here always produces small levels of self-reported behavior/identity that, like non-heterosexuality, is stigmatized.
The 60% of people living with HIV refers to Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM). These men do not of necessity identify as gay or bi (research indicates in fact that most men who’ve had sex with men ID as straight). And the fact they both are MSM and have HIV doesn’t mean they caught the virus via gay sex.
Granted, it’s common even in research to conflate MSM with LGB men, but that doesn’t mean that this is methodologically sound.
MSM are a larger population set than LGB men, so of course, if you use epidemiology data collected from 10% of the population (MSM) and assumes it applies, without any weighting, to another set of the population (openly LGB men) who are much smaller in number, only 2% of the population, then it will look like the smaller group is unusually diseased.
However, CDC found in the same study that encountered the 2% number that gay men were more likely than any other sex/sexual orientation group to be in shape, to fulfill their exercise needs, and to have their physical health described as good or excellent.
Masc Pride
@meghanada: …but civil unions and domestic partnerships (which the Williams Institute includes in their numbers) have been around for a looooonnnnnng time, you dumb angry bitch.
The CDC specifically states gay and bisexual men for the 60 percent stat I quoted (not MSM). I’m already aware of the difference. Not interested in playing word games or sugar-coating what we already know just because it’s unpleasant. BTW, there’s no such thng as “LGB men”, dumbass. lol
Tackle
@Giancarlo85: Damn this is the last time I’m addressing this sh!t. No use when people lack reading comprehension. Unless you have been around here for 5yrs or longer, you do not know what, or how @Cam really is. I clearly stated that it wasn’t just about what was written today, but things he has written in the past, and allowed (R@cism) to his post, and not corrected or called the posters on it. If you are not against them, them, then you are for them. And I guess also you did not see the other r@cist post either. And BTW, I’ve seen you post some stupid sh!t also. So I guess we’re all even…
youarekiddingme
@meghanada:That dumb shit masc pride will again reply: “Ooooooh, that was long! lol”, because that’s the only thing that his 4 brain cells can muster to come up with as a response!
Your argument is well thought out and scientifically sound. You are speaking WAY above that RETARD’s head. He can’t seem to figure out that people are now seeing what a complete ass he is by LAUGHING OUT LOUD about gay young men “looking forward to getting HIV/AIDS”. Total tool!
Giancarlo85
@Tackle: You can’t read at all. You can’t even make a proper or coherent sentence. You don’t know shit about anything, as expected. I know Cam well enough and have seen his posts. He didn’t say anything ra*c*st.
@Masc Pride: “The CDC specifically states gay and bisexual men for the 60 percent stat I quoted”
No they don’t. Keep making things up though. It’s not helping your shitty argument. HIV is spreading the fastest among heterosexual women.
Giancarlo85
@meghanada: Masc Pride doesn’t like gay people and he really hates openly gay people.
1EqualityUSA
Cam is articulate and fair-minded. I’ve enjoyed reading his comments and value his input over the years.As for Kevin Hart, it sounds as though he’s making progress by at least realizing that his homophobia is about him and his fears. As for Queerty only focusing on negative images for black members of the gay community, I believe this. These last three articles covered bigotry by a comedian, divorce with children placed in flux, and a victim lesbian singer pointing fingers at Cosby when he is already down and out and defeated. The only non-negative articles tend to focus on body parts. It’s time to represent some of the success stories on Queerty with regard to non-white brothers and sisters. We need to stick together. We are a community with progressive ideas. Love to you all, Queertiers.
Cam
@Tackle: You can’t deny what I said about you being homophobic so you just tell me to f-off? That’s about what I would expect from an anti-gay troll.
As for it being rac-ist to suggest attacking LGBTS is bigoted. Funny, you still can’t explain the fact that the NAACP, MLKs wife, Virginia Loving, all say it’s the same type of attack.
You anti-gay trolls keep trying to pot the black community and the gay community against each other with your lies.
Give it up Gretchen, it’s never going to happen.
Michael Reid Perry
He can help create a world that would make having a LGBT child no big deal at all. But if there is more contempt in him for LGBTs than he is willing to admit to…
Masc Pride
Geez, do antiretrovirals cause mood swings? Some of you guys are just so sensitive and irritable all the time. Nervous about blood work, maybe?
youarekiddingme is totally Atticus. We can always tell it’s your crazy ass, Reverend Bennett! lol
@meghanada: Still there, buddy? 🙂
mediajky
Never thought he was funny.
1EqualityUSA
The “Mal”-meter is going off, quick, get the Ovilus….It…It’s getting colder in here….goosebumps…Static—-“MASK!…pride”-static- Did you hear that! Classic EVP! Dude! I’ve got chills. Oh, there’s a bad feeling here…oh, Dude…Let’s return to nerve center to examine our evidence…
youarekiddingme
@Masc Pride: Totally Gone!!
Now making fun of anitretrovirals? Bloodwork? You need to be INSTITUTIONALIZED! Better yet, you’re probably some religious nut planted on this site to stir up trouble! FUCKIN TOTAL WEIRDO!
dre23222
He is just a whack black ashy bumpy face who thinks hes funny when in fact he is a cornball with no real talent. He laughs at his own self because he is that ugly.
Giancarlo85
@youarekiddingme: He’s a moron who likes to lash out at other gay people.
Mask Pride lives in fear that his daddy will find out he’s bi-curious and beat him.
Tackle
@Cam: Lol…I can deny what you said about being homophobic. And as far as explaining the NAACP, MLK’s wife, Virginia Loving, this is the first I’m hearing to explain it. And isn’t r@cist gay white men attacking gay Black men the same type of attack??
And no: I’m not trying to “pot” the Black community against the gay community against each other. And why don’t you tell the White r@cist to stop trying to put the gay White community against the Black community. And why didn’t you speak up when they were first starting their r@cist drivel? It was the gay Whites who came on here starting sh!t first.
Louis
Kevin Hart is one of the most overrated ACTORS/ COMEDIANS out there nowadays.
Kevin Hart can not act.
Kevin Hart is not FUNNY.
Kevin Hart needs to remember what blacks experienced in regards to discrimination prejudice and intolerance and stop being a narrowminded macho hypocrite.
Kevin Hart needs to get a new line because that one about being SENSITIVE is tired and old and insensitive in and of itself.
Kevin Hart is an obvious bigot who is too uneducated to realize this about himself having nothing to do with his race but having everything to do with his lack of character and integrity.
Louis
@Giancarlo85: Id go further then that about that individual but if I did the comment would immediately be considered spam.
Cam
@Tackle:
The first you heard about MLKS wife, the NAACP, and Virginia Loving ALL comparing anti-gay gay attacks and bigotry to the Civil Rights battles they fought? Well the fact you somehow managed to apparently avoid reading anything other than your favorite right wing blogs over the years doesn’t change the question you still refuse to answer. They compared the two also, so according to you that would make both women, and the NAACP rac-ist. Right? Feel free to avoid the question again, as you anti-gay trolls often do.
Giancarlo85
@Louis: Kevin Hart is rated lol? I think nobody really cares about him. His movies all bomb in the box office. And his content is all ripped off from other comedians. Richard Pryor would have told him to stop opening his mouth.
Louis
@Giancarlo85:
That’s what I meant by overrated I see tons of positive comments about this untalented man yet he isn’t talented to begin with.
He’s just another idiot who puts his foot in his mouth all the time then claims people are too SENSITIVE.