Vivica A. Fox has responded to our story about the comments she made on a morning radio show earlier today… by doubling down.
Just to recap: the D-lister was promoting her new reality show, Black Magic, which follows her around as she prepares to launch an exotic, all-male dance revue in Las Vegas, when she was asked whether gay men would be allowed in the audience.
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“Aw, hell no,” Vivica was quick to reply. “Back all that up. No! NO!” She added that there was “no need” for gay men to be there because this was a ladies-only affair. “It’s called the ultimate girls night out for a reason,” she said.
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Naturally, people didn’t respond well to the comments. But apparently, Vivica doesn’t give a damn. This afternoon she tweeted:
Thank u! It's sad in our world today that u do an interview n folks will try to steal your joy! #VivicasBlackMagic #UltimateGurlsNiteOut ??? https://t.co/OGPCThnidU
— Vivica A. Fox (@MsVivicaFox) January 6, 2017
Then she said “folks” (we can only assume she means “gay folks”) were blowing things out of proportion:
Much love back at cha! Folks taking an answer to question and blowing it out of proportion! Have a blessed day ??? https://t.co/jHEhstBaAa
— Vivica A. Fox (@MsVivicaFox) January 6, 2017
She followed that a short while later by saying:
Appreciate the love n support! Never my intention to offend at all! My show is #VivicasBlackMagic #UltimateGurlsNiteOut ENJOY your weekend?? https://t.co/HbNenY75Vn
— Vivica A. Fox (@MsVivicaFox) January 6, 2017
When someone specifically sent her our article and asked for clarification on her comments, she replied:
Sure! As long as I've been a FRIEND n supporter of the LBGT community I've known them 2 have their OWN HOT exotic dancers 2 enjoy as well? https://t.co/HHtDgdGoNE
— Vivica A. Fox (@MsVivicaFox) January 6, 2017
In other words: Our initial interpretation of her remarks was correct. She doesn’t want gay people there; however, she welcomes them to still tune into her TV show. Just don’t come to the actual live show in Vegas.
AGREED! If gay men or women want to watch #VivicasBlackMagic #UltimateGurlsNiteOut catch us every Wed 10pm @lifetimetv Enjoy your weekend ?? https://t.co/Lps3lX04Ps
— Vivica A. Fox (@MsVivicaFox) January 6, 2017
We think we’ll pass. Thanks, though.
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David Bolton
My favorite role of hers was when she got the holy shit beaten out of her just before she was speared to death.
craigbrew2
She can take her show and shove it. When will the petition start demanding Lifetime cancel her show? I mean, how could they continue to have a show with a hater of the LGBTQ Community as the star?
Captain Obvious
And now I’m sure people are twisting her words to try and find something to be offended by. She clarified. This place is meant for women to have fun together just like we have our own places to have fun with other gay men.
Way too much fishing and reaching here. I love how all the rage, claws, and venom comes out whenever a black person says something even slightly offensive even if unintentional like the above.
Xzamilloh
Fuck outta here… this is a reach. Besides, aren’t there articles on here talking about how sick gay men are of women coming to gay clubs? The answer is YES. So what’s what good for the goose is good for the gay-nder. Who cares anyway… this show will be forgotten about before the year is over.
jkthsnk
Girl needs to stretch that thumb past the ? To hit the !.
Evji108
Why shouldn’t she want a girls only strip club? Let her have it for God’s sake. Gay guys in attendance will ruin the girly vibe and they won’t feel totally comfortable, it doesn’t take a lot of empathy to figure that out. We don’t appreciate women at gay strip events either because they ruin OUR vibe. We have our own places to go, let them have theirs and stop being such sourpusses.
ppp111
@David Bolton:
That was Kill Bill Vol 1. And yes, that was awesome.
@Evji108:
I mostly agree with you but I believe gay clubs can’t technically bar women, particularly straight women, from visiting these venues. I agree that their presence ruins the atmosphere but only when they start acting up as if they believe they should be worshipped for being there. Yeah right. Also, I can’t imagine being a gay guy in an audience that is composed mainly of straight women being catered to by male strippers. I would probably feel uncomfortable considering many of these straight dancers would have an attitude if they had to dance in front of men. Sad but true.
Guy068
So we’re supposed to be offended that when promoting a show where women hit the club only she clarified that yes, she meant only women? Yeah, manufactured outrage here fer sure…
RomanHans
One day smart people will comment on Queerty. Clearly today ain’t that day.
george_blake
why must we go there…all who are offended—Vivica and some of us here. She’s just a chick trying to make money off male dancers with a poor woman’s version of Magic Mike. She was clearly in a “sistah-girl” place when the question was posed and she responded in kind. She NEVER disparages gay men at all. She just says back that up” (which by the way, since I am black and know our vernacular, was directed at the question to be “backed up”. The “no, no, no” is a thing we do as well. We like mock Esther Rolle’s “damn, damn, damn moment” too. Ms. Fox has always had a very open and cool relationship with LGBTQ. She, like most of us, can only do the best she can at any given moment. Let’s exercise the tolerance we want others to have should they catch us talking out of our own asses…which we do.
grethomory
Who cares anyway? There are many strip clubs for women that do not let men in period. I don’t know what the big deal is. Why would a gay guy want to go to a straight male strip club? Doesn’t make sense to me.
Neonegro
Gays can be so freekinn annoying…holy crap.
Let the girls have their night out, YOU ARE NOT A GIRL.
Paco
Judging by the gay support on her twitter, you lost this one Queerty. On to the next outrage.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Who gives a fuck that gay guys are not invited. Its a lady’s night thing. Fine. No, It’s the “no homo” tone of her remarks.. which the apologists and deflectors are all too inured to even see the problem. She can say what she wants. But Fuck her.
brent_thibault
Stealing her JOY..?? LoL Silly girl, you get what you sow.
Stilinski26
Imagine if bunch of gay men forbids women entering a gay bar they will be called sexist and misogynist
Brian
Liberal women fear the power of male homosexual desire to interfere with her natural selling instincts. She treats sex as a commodity, don’t forget.
She canmot sell sex to men who won’t buy. Such men ruin her business model.
This is why she needs to know who’s got male homosexual desires. It helps to filter out the non-buyers.
petert
@Captain Obvious:
The problem is that it is illegal to discriminate and say you only want certain people in your club (in most states, anyway) All kinds of gay bars and strip clubs are overrun by straight women – some guys don’t mind it and some do but there is nothing you can do about it. The club manager cant refuse to let them in as long as they are well-behaved.
Why does Vivica think she can get a hall pass? It’s ILLEGAL and a double standard. I wouldn’t have any interest in her type of show but I’m surprised she doesn’t know the laws.
petert
@Neonegro:
Fine -IF you tell straight girls to get the F out of gay bars abd clubs?
Pii
I think we should cut her some slack. She’s just trying to earn a living and obviously the act is meant for women. So let them have it. Its not like we haven’t got strip clubs to go to.
jorgecruz
We don’t need a petition to cancel her show- she is good at getting shit cancelled all the time. The audience will do the same thing to her show that 50cent did to her- we will show her our ass, we will dump her and then we will go get our own big black dick.
Kangol
Girl, girl? Do you know how to use another form of punctuation than a question mark, girl? So you want a girl’s night out? Half your dancers are probably gurls! So let the girls and gurls and grrrrls enjoy the girls up on the stage? Girl???
Jack Meoff
I’d say she has a bigger problem with exclamation marks than she does question marks.
Jack Meoff
@Jack Meoff: Exclamation marks and stereotypically bad grammar.
MaxTaste
She sounds crazy.
rgonzalez000
It’s not what she said it’s HOW she said it. like with such disdain and disgust. Unfortunately, a vast majority of African Americans share those same intolerant/spiteful sentiments toward the gay community yet when THEY’RE discrimated against, watch out! but I digress…Whatever tho! There’s only like one or two cute guys in that damn cast anyway!
nevereclipsed81
That’s homophobic. Don’t “allow” us to watch. We’re going to pass. Sorry Lifetime, enjoy your terrible ratings. Hell no, back that up, hell no, I’m not watching.
daniel_garza
Maybe the way she said it was bit off, but that’s her style. In her interviews she’s usually trying to be a bit edgy and sharp tongued.
IMO: As much as women love to hang out with Gay men, they don’t always want or need us to be there.
For all of those ‘half-naked dancer’ lovers, go to a Gay bar, I’m sure there is one near you where some dancer will be happy to bounce his penis in exchange for your dollar.
We’ve got bigger enemies to deal with, leave Fox Lady alone.
GayEGO
Really Mary! Forget the LGBT harassment! Viv should just name her club – “Ladies Night Out!” and not permit guys, gay or straight, to enter.
Terrycloth
I know one.thing ..she wants us to have a great weekend..I will…and you’re not invited
Neonegro
@petert: She is not running a club, it is a TV show.
And it is a heterosexual event for heterosexual women.
Neonegro
and gays are not forbidden to watch the show, anybody can watch.
ppp111
@daniel_garza:
IMO: As much as women love to hang out with Gay men, they don’t always want or need us to be there.
Gay men I’m sure probably feel the same way, especially when straight women start acting like gay clubs are theirs to act up in. Just saying.
cabe
@Xzamilloh:
Its the double standard of it all which is what pisses me off. Gay strip clubs and bars across the country are required to admit screeching, drunk straight women and yet straight clubs can refuse entry to gays.
I personally wouldn’t want to go to her show (sounds horrid) – but for her to ignorantly say that in the state of NV or CA she can refuse gay men is BS. Sadly, she can be a bigot and legally refuse gay people in many other states but not NV or CA.
Its just a sh*tty double standard.
SumSay
@cabe: That’s not true, at least not in Las Vegas. It’s not illegal there, and certain adult entertainment establishments can cater to only one gender. Even gentleman’s clubs (topless and female stripper clubs)as a going tradition, would allow only men or escorted female patrons. It’s becoming a little more mixed now with couples, but not all places take to that. There are other Ladies-only venues in Las Vegas as well.
Herman75
Gay folks blowing her words out of proportion? Or just giving free internet buzz to her lame show.
Keebler ILF
@David Bolton:
That scene was brilliant. She was hiding a gun in a box of cereal called Kaboom.
Pic: goo.gl/NU1VSm
Bob LaBlah
@Xzamilloh: In todays world this show will be forgotten within hours after its over. Can’t you see the audience? A bunch of women over 45, ignored in the gym by guys as they struggle while trying to regain their teenage bodies the sales people have convinced them they can regain. The main thing those women have going for them that particular night will be a group mentality to go out/ live it up and be sure to bring their purse full of one/five dollar bills so they can get their feel/fantasy for the night. They don’t care one way or the other if the guy is gay, just have a big piece for them to grab (never mind they have been told not to do that). lol
TimberWolf
I guess she called in Damage Control to clean up her mess. Her show is targeted towards women
but in this world we live in that lines of casting out people for an ” ONLY ” venue are gone.
Women are in sport locker rooms giving interviews, women are in gay clubs watching strippers no one cares. The strippers, they don’t care, the are getting paid and they are in for the cash tips. Again, its the tone in her comments during her interview that put her in the limelight.