Perez Hilton Would Rather Be A Racist Than Bad For The Gays
Perez Hilton called will.i.am a “faggot.” Now, in an Advocate profile he desperately wants for you to know that he’s not a gay hate-monger. He’s just a racist. Some of his best friends are gay people. Best friends like… himself!
Hilton, apparently not content to be the world’s leading purveyor of dirty celebrity doodles, is quixotically positioning himself as some sort of gay rights leader. Though, he’s going about it all the wrong ways.
In a new profile for The Advocate by Boston-based gaypert Benoit Denizet-Lewis, the vicious and rotund self-ascribed Queen of All Media practically pleads with his interviewer to please believe him. The story was written and filed before The Incident, but Denizet-Lewis has spoken to Hilton since and added his quotes to the online version of the article. Hilton, never the intellectual high jumper, buried himself even deeper:
But Perez tells me that, in the heat of the moment that night, he almost chose to use a different word. “I thought about calling him the n word,” he says over the phone a week after the incident, “but I thought the f word was even worse. I was so filled with hate at that moment because I was hated on so much, and I reacted in the worst way possible. Then I went on to make a bunch of other mistakes. I shouldn’t have made the video. I shouldn’t have released so many statements. But what’s come out of all of this is that I’ve learned so much about myself, and I’m in a much better place. I’m actually thankful that it happened. As cheesy as it may sound, I had almost a spiritual moment when I just let all of the anger and worry go and am now filled with peace, happiness, and wisdom.
Aw. Isn’t that… vaguely horrifying. In seeking the forgiveness of the gay community (or not forgiveness, I don’t think Hilton is concerned with forgiveness, but some weird meta thing somewhere between forgiveness and fear), Hilton decides to have us congratulate him for not saying the racist thing he was thinking. Terrific.
The late edition aside, the Advocate article is a mildly interesting, if not deeply-probing, read. Mostly the bitchy/sad blogger comes across as lonely and pretending, scorned by his one-time media friends and coworkers (like Queerty’s Japhy Grant and head Jezebel Anna Holmes), intimidated and childish when trying to meet men. Basically he’s any young gay guy with identity problems, only he’s crafted a big pink dreadnought of a platform to loudly air his insecurities.
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At what point in time was the flux capacitor moment when society decided to promote talentless cowards like this leech to the altar of celebrity? Whilst the advent of new media has allowed for everyday people to share their views and opinions, it has also allowed for the rise of those whose opinions are neither well informed or factual, but where sensationalism is the main means of getting heard.
Sadly as a society, especially with the Gen Y morons that are currently coming off the production line, being raised to contribute to the world in which we live in has been replaced by a bunch of peurile takers, and the bottom feeding Perez Hilton’s of this world are allowed to have relevance. But these silly youngin’s look to the airhead Hiltons’ of this world (yes, both Paris and Perez) as role models, and think to have ‘made it’ is to have a large Twitter following. How can you argue with an idiot?
I’m waiting for Perez to dig a deep enough hole that he buries himself in it for good. I’ve been really annoyed at the media who helped him promote some eccentric gay-boy jolly blogger image, when really – he is a grimy, spiteful, hateful hypocrite who sits in front of his computer all day being bitchy.
Marto, you put it so well.
“At what point in time was the flux capacitor moment when society decided to promote talentless cowards like this leech to the altar of celebrity?”
Love it.