Los Angeles-based radio station K-ROQ Kevin & Bean show recently started playing a track called “Lean Like A Homo,” a send up of Kilo’s “Lean Like a Cholo”.
Before you get hot and bothered, consider these somewhat clever lyrics: “Ass cheeks up, spread them wide… That’s how we live, party, and play, every single day for the gay.”
While we got a bit of a chuckle, one concerned queer wasn’t having it.
In an effort to change the station’s allegedly anti-gay ways, this particular listener sent a letter of complaint. The song’s not nearly as offensive as host Kevin Ryder’s snide reply:
I’m sure you can write certain “leaders” of groups out there that spend their lives coordinating their fake, choreographed shows of anger…
You should be ashamed of yourself for taking attention away from the real problems. Grow up. If you don’t like our show, nobody is putting a gun to your head, just change the station to another station that takes your fake outrage seriously…
Damn! That’s pretty bitchy for a straight man. Shame on you, Kevin. You should have known such a flippant response would rile the lavenders.
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cjc
I wish the Velvet Mafia were truly real and did things like, oh, say, wiring cars to explode upon entry.
cjc
And before you all get your panties in a knot: I’m being snarky/sarcastic. I’ll let the NSA deal with me.
allstarecho
You can listen to the song at http://www.kroq-data.com/kevinandbean/sounds.asp
juliansorl
I hate Kevin and Bean or whatever that show is called. Talk about the dumbing of America, those two are such blow-hards it’s unbearable. I think that show is geared to 9yearolds who read playboy magazine. I wish KROQ would get a clue, and put rodney on.
WWH
sometime I think that “we” (los gays), need to have a sense of humor and not get all outraged about every little thing. It was probably very funny.
haxboob
I don’t think anyone is getting the point here. This isn’t about gay guys just sucking it up and learning to laugh at ourselves, this is about living with negative stereotypes that are hindering us from EVER moving on past the point of people seeing us as a bunch of ass-cheek spreading, drug snorting, disco dancing queens in search of dicks and sex. This song, and I listened to it 4 times so that I could “get” the joke if there was one, contained every negative stereotype of gay men, the damn thing was called LEAN LIKE A HOMO…that one guy who complained SHOULD have complained, the last time I was called homo was in highschool and I was not having a very good time being the school “homo”, were you? You people who all say “lighten up” need to see the bigger picture, that radio stations listeners are the SAME demographic of young guys who like to get in their cars on a Saturday night and head into West Hollywood with a baseball bat looking for Ass-cheek spreading faggots to beat. Here is another point for you guys to mull over, if that song were titled LEAN LIKE A NIGGER and talked about some black guy eating fried chicken and robbing people at ATM’s that song would NEVER have made it on the air, why you ask? Because Black Americans got TIRED of the negative stereotypes that were holding THEM back, so now they fight against this crap when needed. So why does a song sung by a homophobic straight guy in a super-queeny voice that portrays gay men as drug taking, lisping fags make all of you guys want to say “oh whatever, let it go, it’s not hurting anyone”, really guys? are you checking the way the rest of America thinks about you and ultimately votes against us? Who is supposed to say “enough is enough” if you aren’t going to? Now this whole Idaho Senator thing is going down and we learn about foot tapping codes and everyone on tv being interviewed is saying that this is a gay thing when in fact police records show that the majority of men caught having sex in public restrooms are married men with children. You guys gonna sit back and go “oh we should lighten up and just let them say it’s a gay thing” or do we point out that we AREN’T the perverts behind all the foot tapping that we are ALL being painted as? I NEVER knew about a foot tapping code, yet here I am at work with people asking me about it because everyone watching tv or listening to the radio is being told this bathroom sex thing is a GAY thing. I’m tired of being portrayed in every negative light, I’m surprised that most of you still think there is alot of room for this and just tell others to get over it. Rights and respect don’t just get handed to you because you kept in line, kept your head down and your mouth shut. Sometimes people have to prove it’s deserved…you gonna stand up againt people saying you spread your ass-cheeks wide and go looking for sex in restrooms with all the gay people? Or are you going to speak up and point out that we aren’t those people that “they” like to think we are?