Michelle Shocked Says Anti-Gay Rant Was 'Realy,' Claims She Is Not Homophobic (VIDEO) | HuffPost Voic

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• SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED STUNS FANS WH ANTI-GAY RANT
• WHAT HAPPENED TO MICHELLE SHOCKED? SGER'S PROFANE ANTI-GAY RANT STUNS CROWD
• SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED'S ANTI-GAY RANT: 'GOD HAT FAGS'
• MICHELLE SHOCKED 'DAMN SORRY' FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS
• MICHELLE SHOCKED SAYS ANTI-GAY RANT WAS 'REALY,' CLAIMS SHE IS NOT HOMOPHOBIC (VIDEO)
• MICHELLE SHOCKED: I THOUGHT SHE WAS GAY!
• MICHELLE SHOCKED RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY
• MICHELLE SHOCKED’S TOUR VANISH FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
• MICHELLE SHOCKED ADDRS ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY
• MICHELLE SHOCKED APOLOGIZ, SAYS ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS WERE MISUNRSTOOD
• MICHELLE SHOCKED’S TOUR VANISH FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
• MICHELLE SHOCKED ADDRS ANTI-GAY COMMENTS ON TWTER; RERDG SURFAC (AUD)
• SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED GO ON ANTI-GAY RANT DURG SAN FRANCIS SHOW, CANCELLATNS FOLLOW

SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED STUNS FANS WH ANTI-GAY RANT

” How wasn’t long before Shocked, a progrsive sger-songwrer and activist bt known for her 1988 album Short Sharp Shocked, unleashed an anti-gay tira durg that show on Sunday night. Hors of dience members had already begun to funnel out , Shocked seems to have scuttled any chance at revivg her mic reer—and pleted a shockg evolutn om implic lbian to gay-hatg zealot. “You n go on Twter and say Michelle Shocked said ‘God hat fags, ’” the sger railed, om the stage, acrdg to wns, the ncln of a monologue about the evils of gay marriage and overturng California’s Proposn 8, which legally f marriage as a unn between a woman and man.

“When they stop Prop 8 and force prits at gunpot to marry gays, will be the downfall of civilizatn, and J will e back. The operator of the venue, Yoshi’s, terpted the performance, sayg that, as a gay man, he uld not allow Shocked to ntue and mand she leave the stage.

WHAT HAPPENED TO MICHELLE SHOCKED? SGER'S PROFANE ANTI-GAY RANT STUNS CROWD

This sight om @JasonChworth is a prime example of the enraged nfn Shocked’s ments igned: “Most surprisg part of @MShocked 's San Fran rant: disverg that Michelle Shocked isn't gay.

SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED'S ANTI-GAY RANT: 'GOD HAT FAGS'

”She also seemed to be stgglg wh how to rencile homosexualy and the beliefs of her gay fans wh her stat as a newly vout Christian. " It’s not exactly a view that would keynote a LGBT pri para, but hardly reflects the anti-gay rant she poed Sunday, her exasperatn over beg a role mol for the gay muny seemed to be head towards a breakg pot.

MICHELLE SHOCKED 'DAMN SORRY' FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS

She performed at the Wild Goose ftival 2011, and lashed out at an dience member who asked her about homosexualy.

At the start of her send set, she told the dience that the overturng of Proposn 8, which banned gay marriage the state of California, uld mean the downfall of civilizatn and herald the end of days, acrdg to Yahoo!

MICHELLE SHOCKED SAYS ANTI-GAY RANT WAS 'REALY,' CLAIMS SHE IS NOT HOMOPHOBIC (VIDEO)

The artist told the dience they should go on social media and post that Michelle Shocked says God "hat" homosexuals — a ment which she ed a gay slur. Opposn to wasn't exactly difficult to e by — the Brish actor Jeremy Irons drew ridicule when he warned that gay marriage uld lead to fathers marryg their own sons to avoid herance tax, per The Guardian. For a start, Shocked had ma her support of Proposn 8 clear , of all plac, San Francis, a cy famo for s LGBTQ+ culture and scribed by the San Francis Travel Associatn as "the World's Gay Mec.

MICHELLE SHOCKED: I THOUGHT SHE WAS GAY!

She also claimed that her e of a homophobic slur "was predictg the absurd way my scriptn of, my apology for, the tolerant would no doubt be misterpreted.

" Her ments about Proposn 8 were "neher leral nor ironic: was a scriptn of how some folks – not me – feel about gay marriage. Shocked later appeared on numero outlets cludg CNN, where, a surprisgly evasive terview wh Piers Man, Shocked eventually claimed that she was "not homophobic.

MICHELLE SHOCKED RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY

More than three days after her potentially reer-cripplg n- wh a eply offend dience San Francis, folk sger Michelle Shocked fally got around to issug a public apology Wednday, sayg, “I don’t always exprs myself as clearly as I should, ” and affirmg her mment to gay rights the wake of her allegedly homophobic ments. But the timg may not have been ial, as wh hours of her pro-gay statement reachg the media, an d rerdg of her ntent San Francis performance swept the web.

8 wh the g of the End Tim was neher leral nor ironic: was a scriptn of how some folks — not me — feel about gay marriage … I am damn sorry.

Prevly on Twter, Shocked had told a ncerned fan that she was “neher agast a woman’s right to choose nor gay marriage. Siarly, the open letters she issued Wednday, she took pas to tablish that she is both a fahful evangelil Christian and an LGBT-rights supporter, wrg, “I know the fear many the evangelil muny feel about homosexual marriage, as I unrstand the fear many the gay muny feel toward the self-appoted fahful. 8 is stated, and once preachers are held at gunpot and forced to marry the ho-mo-sexuals” — she says the word “homosexuals” almost a parody of a Southern accent — “I’m pretty sure that that will be the signal for J to e on back.

MICHELLE SHOCKED’S TOUR VANISH FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY COMMENTS

Durg a spoken-word sectn the middle of the song, a woman starts shoutg: “Have you bee homophobic or am I jt nfed? As she fished her song, she was serenad by shouts of “Homophobe” and “Everyone should get up and leave.

Those who wanted to give Shocked the benef of the doubt surmised after hearg the tape that perhaps she had meant to get around to a msage about how fundamentalists and gays jt all need to learn to get along. But wh the fateful cln of the phrase that the opns “are me, too, ” she left patrons wh a leral readg that had Shocked herself believg gay marriage would precipate biblil end tim.

March 21, 2013— -- Sger-songwrer Michelle Shocked apologized to fans after she reportedly went on an anti-gay rant at a San Francis ncert, sayg her support for the LGBT muny "has never wavered. "And om our vantage pot we're gonna be, uh … once Prop 8 gets stated, and once preachers are held at gunpot and forced to marry the homosexuals, then I'm pretty sure that will be the signal for J to e on back. She obvly has some ser issu and unfortunately chose our venue to vent them, " he News' lls to Yoshi's for ment were not immediately her letter, Shocked said that her statement equatg repeal of Prop 8 wh the g of the end of time "was neher leral nor ironic: It was a scriptn of how some folks – not me – feel about gay marriage.

MICHELLE SHOCKED ADDRS ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY

"Meanr's Kchen Seattle, where Shocked was schled to perform on April 26, replaced Shocked's performance wh a Queer Burlque and Cabaret benef for lol gay youth.

MICHELLE SHOCKED APOLOGIZ, SAYS ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS WERE MISUNRSTOOD

Now that you've been married, divorced and found relign, why do you thk many who claim to be Christians are so openly hateful toward homosexuals?

MICHELLE SHOCKED’S TOUR VANISH FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY COMMENTS

Sger Michelle Shocked, perhaps bt known for her 1990s alternative folk-rock tun cludg "Anchorage, " stunned her fans at a San Francis ncert on Sunday night wh an anti-homosexualy rant, acrdg toseveralsourc.

MICHELLE SHOCKED ADDRS ANTI-GAY COMMENTS ON TWTER; RERDG SURFAC (AUD)

"When they stop Prop 8 and force prits at gunpot to marry gays, will be the downfall of civilizatn and J will e back, " Shocked said, acrdg to ncert attene and reviewer Jam Patterson om The Bay Area Reporter. Meanr's Kchen Seattle wrote on s Facebook page: "Meanr's Kchen will not be hostg Michelle Shocked for her April 26th performance Seattle due to her homophobic performance San Francis last night, durg which she actually said 'God Hat F---. ' " The venue add that would be hostg a benef for s favore gay youth anizatns stead that magaze Billboard nfirmed on Tuday that 10 out of 11 of her upg shows have sce been nceled by venu that had been set to host the mician.

"Still, while fans were clearly taken aback by her recent on-stage outburst, this isn't the first time Shocked has taken her evolvg beliefs to a microphone: In 2011 durg the Wild Goose Ftival, a Brish mic event signed for LGBT Christians, she was asked about her "posn on homosexualy" by an dience member.

SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED GO ON ANTI-GAY RANT DURG SAN FRANCIS SHOW, CANCELLATNS FOLLOW

Full d of Michelle Shocked's anti-gay and ultimately tour-torpedog gab ssn at the start of a ncert San Francis has emerged, right on the heels…. The full d of Michelle Shocked’s anti-gay and tour-torpedog ments at the start of a ncert San Francis has emerged, right on the heels of her first full statement sce the Sunday show.

Shocked’s ments at the club, lled Yoshi’s, have drawn nmnatn for clarg that the apolypse may occur if a gay marriage ban California were overturned and preachers were “forced” to perform gay weddgs. And my statement equatg repeal of Prop 8 wh the g of the End Tim was neher leral nor ironic: was a scriptn of how some folks — not me — feel about gay marriage. “And om our vantage pot we’re gonna be, uh … once Prop 8 gets stated, and once preachers are held at gunpot and forced to marry the homosexuals, then I’m pretty sure that will be the signal for J to e on back.

“Acrdg to this show we’ve spent about 20 percent of the show on tweets, 80% was the show, and 40% was homophobia. Fans are left wonrg what happened to folk mician Michelle Shocked after she stunned a crowd at the San Francis venue Yoshi's Sunday night by embarkg on a torrid anti-gay tira, clarg that legalizg gay marriage will lead to "the downfall of civilizatn.