Open Letter to Kid Rock - Stop Usg 'Gay' As a Pejorative

Contents:

• KID ROCK HOMOPHOBIC SLUR (AGA) A SNI TWEET ABOUT LOVG HIS GAY IENDS
• KID ROCK REPEATS GAY SLUR RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIA BACKLASH
• KID ROCK’S LATT PROFANY-FILLED POLIL SPEECH ADDRS GAY RIGHTS, HIS ‘D**K’
• KID ROCK SAYS RAP-ROCK 'TURNED OUT TO BE PRETTY GAY'
• KID ROCK SAYS RAP-ROCK 'TURNED OUT TO BE PRETTY GAY'
• KID ROCK ASKS WHY ‘IS EVERYTHG SO GAY’ LATT CONCERT RANT (VIO)
• KID ROCK SAYS "RAP-ROCK" "TURNED OUT TO BE PRETTY GAY"
• AN OPEN LETTER TO KID ROCK ABOUT THE WORD 'GAY'
• KID ROCK SHAR MIXED FEELGS ON GAY MARRIAGE NEW OP-ED
• KID ROCK REPEATS HOMOPHOBIC SLUR AS HE CLAIMS HE HAS A 'LOT OF LOVE' FOR GAY FRIENDS TWEET
• KID ROCK DON’T “FACETWEET,” SAYS RAP-ROCK “TURNED OUT TO BE PRETTY GAY”
• KID ROCK'S PR (HIMSELF) ASSUR KID ROCK HAS "GAY IENDS" WHILE DOUBLG DOWN ON HOMOPHOBIC SLUR
• KID ROCK MAK SEVERAL HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS NEW INTERVIEW ABOUT GAYS, GUNS, POLICS, DGS & MORE
• KID ROCK DOUBL DOWN ON ANTI-GAY SLUR, CLAIMS TO LOVE HIS GAY IENDS
• KID ROCK SHAR MIXED FEELGS ON GAY MARRIAGE NEW OP-ED

KID ROCK HOMOPHOBIC SLUR (AGA) A SNI TWEET ABOUT LOVG HIS GAY IENDS

Kid Rock, shown at a 2019 ncert Texas, isn’t apologizg for a homophobic slur he ed over the weekend. (Amy Harris / Invisn / Associated Prs) Is Kid Rock sorry for the homophobic slur he hurled durg a weekend performance Tennsee?

KID ROCK REPEATS GAY SLUR RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIA BACKLASH

The sger jt doubled down on the hateful word a mockg tweet about lovg his gay iends. “Eher way, I know he has a lot of love for his gay iends and I will have a talk wh him.

”Kid Rock, a Tmp supporter, has often referred to himself as a libertarian who is socially liberal but fislly nservative and prevly has exprsed his support for gay another recent move guaranteed to tick off a number of people, Kid Rock ved untouchable untry mician Man Wallen to perform at his Nashville honky-tonk May, right before Wallen posted a new song, “Thought You Should Know, ” on was the mullet-sportg sger-songwrer’s first shot at a public performance sce his dtry-wi ncellatn Febary, which me after he hollered the N-word at a buddy after a dnken night out.

KID ROCK’S LATT PROFANY-FILLED POLIL SPEECH ADDRS GAY RIGHTS, HIS ‘D**K’

Amid fierce backlash over a homophobic remark on June 5, Kid Rock has fally cid to addrs crics — by repeatg the same slur that got him trouble the first place. Rock then attempted to put a good-natured sp on his post by addg, “Eher way, I know he has a lot of love for his gay iends and I will have a talk wh him.

The Michigan native was rpondg to an flammatory TMZ clip om last week that picted him spewg homophobic ephets at fans filmg his Saturday show Tennsee.

Kid Rock is doublg down on his homophobic Imag. Rock’s homophobic rea didn’t go over so well on social media. Kid Rock (third om left) had yelled a gay slur at fans for filmg him durg his June 5 ncert Imag.

KID ROCK SAYS RAP-ROCK 'TURNED OUT TO BE PRETTY GAY'

“Someone wh gay iends wouldn’t e that word as an sult, ” wrote one cric of the tone-af statement, which, ironilly, me out June — LGBTQ Pri month.

KID ROCK SAYS RAP-ROCK 'TURNED OUT TO BE PRETTY GAY'

This isn’t the first time Rock has ed a gay pejorative. In 2015, Rchie told the Guardian that rap-rock, the genre that spired his name, “turned to a lot of bulls – – t” and was “pretty gay. “If someone says you n’t say ‘gay’ like that, you tell them to go f – – k themselv, ” he add.

KID ROCK ASKS WHY ‘IS EVERYTHG SO GAY’ LATT CONCERT RANT (VIO)

The owners of historic New York Cy gay bar Stonewall Inn protted the fdgs by pourg Bud Lights down the dra durg Pri weekend that year.

KID ROCK SAYS "RAP-ROCK" "TURNED OUT TO BE PRETTY GAY"

Kid Rock, an arnt Tmp supporter who has hurled a homophobic slur at a performance, has attacked the transgenr muny the past. Most recently, durg Pri Month, the 50-year-old artist was ught g a homophobic slur onstage and later fend himself by g the same slur aga a bative rponse to the ntroversy.

He kicked off his third annual Fish Fry by rappg about his beliefs, cludg about gay and transgenr rights, a speech. “Why the days is everythg so da– gay? “I mean, gay rights this, transgenr that.

AN OPEN LETTER TO KID ROCK ABOUT THE WORD 'GAY'

June 2021: Us Homophobic Slur Onstage. In a vio published June 7 by TMZ, Rock was ught g a homophobic slur onstage while llg out crowd members filmg him at FishLipz Bar & Grill Smhville, Tennsee, “You f—g f—–s wh your iPhon out! June 2021: Repeats Use of Homophobic Slur.

In his first statement sce a vio surfaced of him sayg a homophobic slur onstage, durg Pri Month no ls, Rock ed the same slur aga a bative msage on social media.

Drkg Bud Light is gay. As the Natnal Actn Network’s Detro chapter protted outsi, Kid Rock ma another profany-lan stump speech Detro at his ncert time, the mician addrsed gay rights and rehashg his views on racism and “adbeat dads. ” “Why, the days, is everythg so gay?

KID ROCK SHAR MIXED FEELGS ON GAY MARRIAGE NEW OP-ED

Immediately after voicg support for gay marriage (“I say let gay folks get married if they want to”), Kid Rock ma clear that he do not support transgenr rights.

Stay the hell why, the days, is everythg so gay? Gay rights, transgenr this and that.

KID ROCK REPEATS HOMOPHOBIC SLUR AS HE CLAIMS HE HAS A 'LOT OF LOVE' FOR GAY FRIENDS TWEET

I say let gay folks get married if they want to and I’m not even close to a athtrap. Wanted to know what Kid Rock’s thoughts on gay marriage are? “As an ordaed mister I don’t look forward to marryg gay people, but I’m not opposed to , ” the sger said an terview wh The Guardian where he brgs up his thoughts on gay issu seemgly unprompted.

Kid Rock also found a way to ment on gay slurs when he talked about rap-rock, the genre he specialized durg the ’90s. “But turned to a lot of bullsh and turned out to be pretty gay. ” He go on to addrs that g “gay” as a rogatory adjective is ntroversial—but don’t re.

“If someone says you n’t say ‘gay’ like that you n tell them to go f–k themselv, ” he said. Kid Rock livered yet another expletive, polil speech durg his ncert Detro on Tuday, blastg “adbeat dads, ” the welfare system and whe supremacist groups, and posg the qutn, “why, the days, is everythg so gay?

KID ROCK DON’T “FACETWEET,” SAYS RAP-ROCK “TURNED OUT TO BE PRETTY GAY”

Lastly, Kid Rock talked about gay and transgenr rights and stated that thgs “should not be this plited” but whatever you have “between your legs” should “termed the bathroom that you e. “And why the days is everythg so gay? “Gay rights, transgenr this and that.

KID ROCK'S PR (HIMSELF) ASSUR KID ROCK HAS "GAY IENDS" WHILE DOUBLG DOWN ON HOMOPHOBIC SLUR

“But turned to a lot of bullsh and turned out to be pretty gay…If someone says you n’t say ‘gay’ like that you tell them to go fuck themselv. As an ordaed mister I don’t look forward to marryg gay people, but I’m not opposed to .

You're everywhere the days promotg and, while I wish you the bt and badst of luck, I n't help but notice that right there wh "First Kiss is a return to form" and "Kid Rock is a real Amerin badass, " a key element of your marketg mpaign seems to be "'s fun to e the word 'gay' as a pejorative.

" You told TMZ that selfi are "so gay. " In an terview wh the Guardian, you lled rap-rock "gay. " You regaled Howard Stern the other day wh a story about how miserable and opprsed your son felt a Malibu high school that hung a sgle sign forbiddg the e of the word "gay" as an sult, and how you shared a moment of father-son bondg over how gay the sign self was.

KID ROCK MAK SEVERAL HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS NEW INTERVIEW ABOUT GAYS, GUNS, POLICS, DGS & MORE

"If someone says you n't say 'gay' like that, you n tell them to go fuck themselv, " you assured your Guardian op-ed piece.

You give that right up willgly when benefs you, and you know that you e of "gay" as an sult is damagg to gay kids the way that other swear words are not. Edutors are creasgly forbiddg the e of the word "gay" as a pejorative, an attempt to make schools as safe a space for as many young people as they n be. The e of "gay" as an sult is damagg to gay kids the way that other swear words—swear words that are also monly forbidn schools, which also don't promise anyone's right to ee speech—are not.

You've never been a gay kid.

KID ROCK DOUBL DOWN ON ANTI-GAY SLUR, CLAIMS TO LOVE HIS GAY IENDS

Here's what happens when you're a gay kid and the people around you e the word "gay" to mean "foolish, silly, ls worthy": You beg to believe that you are foolish, silly, ls worthy. So then you feel anger bee you nnot turn off your sire, and then you feel fear, bee you worry that everyone around you n tell how angry and ashamed and gay you then you se and you fix your hair and you put a good fuckg face on so that nobody will spect that there's a storm ragg si of over time, you get really good at all of this, bee you get a lot of practice over a lot of years, so you n get the whole procs down to a actn of a send.

Gay kids nearly every se have straight parents, and gay kids nearly every se are terrified to tell those parents what they're gog through, bee a lot of s their straight parents thk gay people are at bt foolish, silly, and ls worthy, and at worst: actually evil.

Gay kids have to go through this alone. Somewhere out there, there was a kid who was about to open up to his or her parents or iends about his or her sexualy, but listened to your Howard Stern terview and heard all those grownups gigglg about how great is to mean gay people, and cid that would be everyone's bt tert to rema alone and sred to ath for a ltle b longer. I am aware of how Amerin you are, bee you talk about almost as much as you talk about how awome is to e "gay" as an sult.

KID ROCK SHAR MIXED FEELGS ON GAY MARRIAGE NEW OP-ED

Ary stuted a regulatn banng men and women who "habually or ocsnally engaged homosexual or other perverse sexual practic. Those discharged for homosexualy were generally g om the Pacific theater and were procsed out of San Francis. Their fightg spir got later generatns of gay people the right to assemble whout the fear of beg round up and rted off to jail.

But I will tell you this: B by ty b, this world is turng to a oler, more open, more acceptg, more joyful place, and we're makg that way, and every time you e the word "gay" as an sult, you reveal yourself to be the kd of person we don't want to brg along wh . Kid Rock penned an op-ed for The Guardian, exprsg his thoughts on everythg om social media to guns to gay marriage.