Latching onto pseudo-controversy like a newborn piglet to Mother’s teat, YouTuber Logan Paul has committed to his plans to “go gay” for a month.
Earlier this month, the 23-going-on-12-year-old from Ohio announced his New Year’s Eve resolution to “go gay” for a whole month. And people weren’t happy about it.
In his podcast, Paul and his co-host Mike Majlak talked about the plan.
In January the guys have decided to go “sober and vegan.” In February, they’ll do the opposite, and eat steak and drink “big bottles of Tito’s [vodka] and shit.”
Then comes March.
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“And then March,” Paul says. “Take a guess. What is it? Male-only March! So it’s male-only March, we’re gonna attempt to go gay for just one month.”
After considerable backlash on social media and from gay rights organizations like GLAAD, Paul apologized for his “very poor choice of words.”
But he’s doubled down on the plan.
Defending his idea, he explained that “Because sexuality is so fluid nowadays, I don’t think twice about talking about being gay. I don’t give a shit. Being gay is cool to me, I think that it’s a very cool thing.”
“This hurts me because I am such a pro-gay dude,” he added.
Gay people, however, are not so sold on the plan:
Instead of "going gay for a month" can Logan Paul "go away for forever"?
— Gus Kenworthy (@guskenworthy) January 12, 2019
everyone: 2019 is gonna be THE yea-
Logan Paul: Im going gay for a month!!
everyone: pic.twitter.com/Bv1pwm0740
— ?????? (@bratbeaters) January 13, 2019
january 2018:
logan paul filmed a dead body in the japanese suicide forest and laughsjanuary 2019:
logan paul claims he’s being gay for a month and completely invalidates the shit LGBTQIA+ deal withjanuary 2020:
logan paul commits mass murder?find out next year
— ????? (@violetmillsx) January 12, 2019
Next challenge Logan Paul should do is the don't be a piece of shit challenge
— Ace Holmes (@hellaradkitty) January 14, 2019
Wicked Dickie
There are gays out there that want him and find him attractive. Sad
andreleneal
I’m just chuckling because, obviously, no one told him about the gangbang initiation. We’ve literally been talking about cultural appropriation for years, but he clearly doesn’t see that identity is at the heart of that. And newsflash: CONVERSION THERAPY DON’T WORK. IN EITHER DIRECTION.
Minyassa
I mean, not kink-shaming or anything, but scat is a thing too, y’know?
Young Timer
If I “doubled-down” on him, he’d never go straight again.
Not sad…
Factual.
PinkoOfTheGange
Is he really that dense?
Ashke113
So what, like he needs permission from the Gay Bottom Mafia? Let him do whatever he wants just like everyone else does, it’s not like he’s going to scroll thru these comments and pic anyone of us to “go gay” with. And trust me those of you hating on him if he actually did that and showed up at your door and threw that dinner dance and dick line at you, you’d be ass up douched lubed and on all fours before he finished his sentence……
Polaro
Bing. Lots of bitter people on the Internet.
RamblingManNJ
Hmmmm….well maybe, as long as he updated his hair style.
james7
Great idea, this going gay for a month, Logan. So great, i’ve decided to do it too; only not just a month, how about lifetime?
Alfy
He’s gonna stay gay…
Polaro
I think you are on to something.
mountainmaat
Agree. Unless he’s already known, but younger guys seemingly are fluid about it.
Polaro
You all need to get a grip. Some of you are preaching about gender being fluid and not defining sexuality and then this guy goes down that path and you turn into biotches. Seriously, if the guy wants to try dick for a month, yeah our team. If he just wants to make fun of us, then shame on him. I have bigger problems.
Juanjo
Unclear on the issue. It is not an issue of gender fluidity, it is a question of a douche-bro being a douche-bro on our patch. Personally, I think the guys ought to take him down to the Eagle for a beer bust and spread eagle him on the pool table but that’s just me.
Polaro
That would be a great youtube video 🙂
malerntogo
Someone needs to tell Logan Paul that his banana has a herpe on it!
Kangol
+100 LOL
thomphelps
I doubt he could handle being gay for a second let alone a month. I think he’s doing this for the attention and controversy of his absurdity.
Polaro
Of course he is doing this or the attention and controversy of his absurdity. It makes a really great excuse to try our dick with an excuse. In some ways I think this is a brilliant way to profit of trying something you want on the DL in full public view.
richybruce
Queens need to STFU and find something else to get your panties in a bunch about. It would be one thing if he were disparaging us but he’s not. He plainly says so. And what happened to all you queens that would sell your own mother to bone a straight guy? Look on the bright side bitches, if he does it and realizes he likes it, that’s one for the team. If he can’t stomach it and pukes on your shoes it just helps prove the point that you can’t just turn gay! If you really need something to bitch about, complain to Oscar voters for giving GaGa two Oscar nominations. Now that’s a real crime against humanity!
malerntogo
Amen brotha!
Donston
It’s not politically correct any longer to admit that you feel some type of choice when it comes to your identity and lifestyle. It’s also not pc to merely admit that you like dick or man ass sometimes but aren’t all that generally into dudes and can’t help but see yourself as “straight”. Or that you enjoy hooking up with girls and/or have some affections and attractions towards women but don’t really want to seriously date a chick and you ultimately see yourself as “gay”. Or that you have some general curiosities or are self-questioning and don’t really wish to adhere to an identity. Everyone is forced to show gay/bi/fluid/queer “pride” or forced to not see themselves as gay or straight if they’re not entirely hetero or homo both inherently and in lifestyle.
That way of thinking is kind of lame and ironically anti-progressive and anti-spectrum anti people finding their own happiness. And it’s partially why a stupid joke about “going gay” makes certain people go crazy.
Donston
I also feel at least part of the response is due to who it’s coming from. Paul is seen as the epitome of the douche-y, arrogant, shallow, leeching, “bro” white guy.
Polaro
@Donston I think you nailed it about who he is not what he is doing.
WSnyder
Do people still think this turd of a human being is still relevant? Well, yeah if people still wear MAGA hats I guess A-Holes still can get attention no matter how insipid they represent themselves. We all misspeak, myself included. Put my foot in my mouth more than once. But this Dude has a history of stupidity. When this story broke, I heard the podcast and then the ‘apology’ then the follow-up. Pretty obvious that the first was him being his ‘natural’ idiot self. Everything that followed as DC, poorly planned and poorly handled. Probably be a promo coming up where he allows himself to get beat-up in a boxing ring by someone in Drag thinking that’ll make everything better.
C625
Speak for yourself Queerty Me and thousands of other gays want Logan
TheGregoryProject
Aaaaand all the porn companies of the world think, ” We’ll help you ‘Go Gay’ for a month “
Donston
I fully support people not equating “gay” to homosexual or treating it like some super technical term concerning orientation or “lifestyle”. I also know that fluidity has legitimacy. But this also represents the bad side of the fluidity hype train. Instead of it being about the genuine evolutions and dimensions in the romantic, sexual, emotional, relationship contentment aspects of orientation, a lot of people are turning this “fluid” stuff into a way to seem cool and edgy and subversive and “open-minded”. But ultimately, what he said really is not that big of deal. If you’re grossed out by sexually engaging beyond one gender or has zero attractions beyond one gender or is unwilling to even make jokes about sexually engaging beyond one gender then that’s you. Not everybody is like that and not everyone else is so hyper focused, totalitarian, political, grim and protective of identity. And not everyone has the same opinion about what all these different identities mean.
Either way, he’s continuing to get the attention he craves, partly because of this overreaction.
MacAdvisor
I would be happy to show Logan the gay life and give him a gay experience. Not just sex either. We have to watch *The Women*; *Queer as Folk (US version)*; read Tales of the City; hit a circuit party; go shopping; have a drink at Martuni’s in SF, the Abby in LA, and the Eagle some place; visit Gurneville, P-town, and Fire Island; and attend a drag show. Yes, he’s immature, but he’s young and being immature then is par for the course. I think is very good looking and I think he might actually learn something. So, Logan, get in touch. I will give you a March to remember.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I’ll take him out for a test drive….he is oddly attractive and probable has a nice size tool.
Until his dumbass declaration to go Gay I can’t find any anti-Gay crap in his past. Let’s target those who are fully dedicated to hurting our community.
frankcar1965
He’s not really my type but I would at least give him a good suck down too! He does have a nice lean bod.
skeldare
Is he subtly coming out?
Donston
I highly doubt it. But you never know. People are always trying to come up with “new” and “inventive” ways of coming out. And I really don’t think there’s anything wrong with keeping it real and simple aka “I’m mostly into girls but I have had some curiosity or attraction towards dudes” or “I’m not a homosexual, but right now I think I prefer persistent romantic and sexual affection from a guy and I want to date guys”. It’s better than a lot of the pretentious, mawkish, way too heavy stuff we usually hear from celebs/semi-celebs.
But this all came out of a juvenile “joke” that social media folk overreacted to. Now, he’s milking it for both attention and to be seen as a “gay ally”.
Pete le meat
If Logan’s not faking it, what’s the big deal? Narrow-minded GLBT people need to stop criticizing him.
msfrost
Being LGBT is a congenital condition. (developed before birth) Science is finding more evidence for it, every day.
You can’t, “Go Gay”!
Curtispsf
Doesn’t he REALIZE that in order to perform oral sex, you need to open your mouth and get that “thing” past your teeth? Gay 101.
Tombear
Can I fist his virgin hole or is that too over the top?
djmcgamester
“Going gay” doesn’t actually mean he’s having sex. That’s not all there is to us. I suspect he’s going to behave like what he sees as stereotypical gay behavior. Which, tbh, is worse. That would show that he knows nothing about the wide range of behavior, masculinity, etc, etc among gays, or even that the stereotypes only scratch the surface (“effeminate” guys who can kick your ass or “masculine” guys who will cower – or whatever, these are extreme examples).