Michelle Shocked Anti-Gay Comments Spur Show Cancellatns – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• 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. 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! 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. 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.

MICHELLE SHOCKED 'DAMN SORRY' FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS

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

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.

Durg a spoken-word sectn the middle of the song, a woman starts shoutg: “Have you bee homophobic or am I jt nfed?

MICHELLE SHOCKED: I THOUGHT SHE WAS GAY!

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.

MICHELLE SHOCKED RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY

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.

"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. 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? 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.

"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---.

MICHELLE SHOCKED’S TOUR VANISH FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY COMMENTS

' " 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. 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.

MICHELLE SHOCKED ADDRS ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY

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.

"Dpe the fact that most people haven't even heard her name sce she was a mid-level alt-folk sger-songwrer plyg her tra the early-'90s Lilh Fair scene, Shocked's gay-bashg rant was a hot topic on the Inter Monday, as news spread about the hateful thgs she said durg the urse of her news about her offensive words is particularly troublg to longtime fans who started listeng to her back when she was a progrsive femist who refed to be fed by genr rol and spoke out agast the strictur of the Mormon fah, unr which she was raised.

MICHELLE SHOCKED APOLOGIZ, SAYS ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS WERE MISUNRSTOOD

So was que shockg to most of the people the crowd at Yoshi's -- which is known for drawg an acceptg, gay-iendly, progrsive crowd -- when she started slammg gays. A number of years ago Shocked clared herself to be a "born-aga" Christian, but she had not prevly taken the stage to overtly slam homosexualy wh the vrl she spewed at Yoshi's Sunday seems to be no official acunt or publicly available vio of the eveng's shockg display by the 51-year-old Texan -- real name Karen Michelle Johnston -- but news reports and social media postgs have provid a breakdown of some of her most offensive a Yoshi's reprentative nfirmed to the New York Daily News that Shocked had ma offensive ments and would not be ved back to perform there, a fact that led at least two venu to ncel g gigs.

MICHELLE SHOCKED’S TOUR VANISH FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY COMMENTS

”And as word of her outburst spread across the Inter Monday, a wi range of opns were exprsed via Twter, Facebook, blogs and news s, but the most visually evotive rponse is likely the vio at this lk, which a gay, longtime Michelle Shocked fan tak a hammer and scissors to what he scrib as "one of my favore albums of all time, " namely a py of her but CD, leavg piec.

Monday, but on Sunday eveng she did tweet out the followg msage, which seems to be a y reference to the negative rponse her rant received:"Tth is leadg to paful nontatn, " she tweeted after a steady flow of angry rpons to her ments began to flood her Twter for exactly what led her to hold that her extreme posns are the "tth, " that's a qutn that will likely plague her fans -- current and former -- until she cis to addrs directly, if she ever those who want to know exactly what was said, here are two of the most egreg ments that fans and news outlets said Shocked ma Sunday night San Francis:“When they stop Prop 8 and force prits at gunpot to marry gays, will be the downfall of civilizatn, and J will e back. Sger Michelle Shocked, who was most popular the '80s and '90s, went on a homophobic tira over the weekend San Francis, much to the surprise of the dience watchg her performance.

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

When she first took to the stage, thgs were fe; but durg her send set, Shocked lnched to an anti-gay rant. "I live fear, " Shocked said, as reported by SFist, "that the world will be stroyed if gays are allowed to marry. Shocked has sce referred to herself as the "world's greatt homophobe, " acrdg to the Bt of New Orleans blog.

Michelle Shocked has rpond to reports that she went on a homophobic rant at a recent gig, sistg she has been misunrstood. "I do not, nor have I ever, said or believed that God hat homosexuals (or anyone else), " Shocked wrote on Wednday. While the rerdg is a ltle hard to follow, Shocked clearly drew a le between California's gay marriage legislatn and a Christian apolypse.

Once Prop 8 gets [repealed] and once preachers are held at gunpot and forced to marry the homosexuals, I'm pretty sure that that will be the signal for J to e on back. "My statement equatg repeal of [Proposn] 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, " she wrote.

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

"If I uld repeat the eveng, I would make a clearer distctn between a set of beliefs I abhor, and my human sympathy for the folks who hold them … In this ntroversy, [my posn] means speakg for Christians wh opns I no way share about homosexualy. "Members of the sger's dience who "appld my so-lled stance that 'God hat faggots'" should offer gay people "mercy, not hate", Shocked wrote.