Somebody might want to take away Steve Brookstein’s phone. The winner of a long-past season of X Factor has been a little careless with his words lately, and it’s hard to imagine he’ll say anything that can make it better.
Cast your mind back to 2004, a more innocent time when anything seemed possible. Steve was a winner of an early season of the X Factor talent show, and had a moment of fame before everyone forgot about him. Apparently, in the intervening decade, he’s been honing his skill as an internet troll, and he had one of his greatest hits last week.
Responding to a twitter conversation, Steve wrote, “oh look a bitchy homosexual. You don’t get many of those on Twitter.”
“Have a day off mate” the person responded — good advice!
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“I have a theory about a bitchy queen gene that a few gay men have. I think you may have it,” Steve wrote back. Okay, Steve, whatever drama you’re grappling with in your life is clearly causing you some problems, so maybe go deal with that and then come back to Twitter once it’s resolved.
The last time Steve was in the news it was because of a similar Twitter meltdown: after someone criticized him, he called the person a pervert and accused them of liking small boys. “I don’t recommend people commit suicide – I just wouldn’t talk them out of it,” he wrote.
It’s hard to feel pity for a fallen star who behaves so poorly, and hard to feel much enthusiasm for Twitter as a platform where that kind of speech is par for the course.
thisisnotreal
Ok so the comment about suicide was definitely rude and callous, but the comment about bitchy gay men wasn’t offensive to me in the least and I’m a gay man myself. I’ve often thought myself that a lot of times there’s an abundance of bitchy queens just looking for something to fight or pick on.
Gian85
Is he trying to tell the world something? Or just a desperate cry for attention since his career is nonexistent?
Gian85
BTW I looked this guy up. He went on a b*tch fest after the XFactor and how he was victimized lol. What a queen.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Can we reserve the term “homophobic” for instances of actual homophobia please.
ddevine
I am both gay and an activist and I agree with him.
strix1
Yikes…I see some of the people they put through on this show, like this season, Ottavio & Bradley and Honey G…I mean seriously. All for entertainment while sacrificing good performers, granted, only one will win and the chances are low that they will actually make it in the industry. But Steve Brookstein is bad egg that proves these viewer-voted shows don’t always work (1 hit wonder…and it was not even his song).
Mykaels
Gays are being thrown off roofs in Syria but OH MY GOD HE CALLED SOMEONE A BITCHY QUEEN ZOMG
Tracy Pope
Has he ever used homophobic language in the past? I ask because “bitchy queen gene” is actually funny and accurate with some of us. I do think the pervert comment probably comes with a tinge of homophobia – he could have just as easily said “little girls”. Overall though, this article is more click-bait-y than anything else.