Michelle Shocked Apologiz for Anti-Gay Rant…And We’re Like, Huh?

Contents:

• MICHELLE SHOCKED 'DAMN SORRY' FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS
• SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED STUNS FANS WH ANTI-GAY RANT
• MICHELLE SHOCKED RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY
• SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED'S ANTI-GAY RANT: 'GOD HAT FAGS'
• WHAT HAPPENED TO MICHELLE SHOCKED? SGER'S PROFANE ANTI-GAY RANT STUNS CROWD
• MICHELLE SHOCKED SAYS ANTI-GAY RANT WAS 'REALY,' CLAIMS SHE IS NOT HOMOPHOBIC (VIDEO)
• MICHELLE SHOCKED ADDRS ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY
• MICHELLE SHOCKED APOLOGIZ, SAYS ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS WERE MISUNRSTOOD
• MICHELLE SHOCKED’S CRAZY SWCH FROM LBIAN TO HOMOPHOBESHORT SHARP SHOCKEDMICHELLE SHOCKED LLED HERSELF GAY. NOW SHE’S CHASG AWAY HER FANS BY TNTG, “GOD HAT FAGS.”KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 12:08AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 19, 2013 1:55PM EDT LEON MORRIS/REDFERNS, VIA GETTY,LEON MORRIS“YOU ALL SEEM VERY NICE,” FOLK SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED TOLD A CROWD OF FANS GATHERED FOR A NCERT SAN FRANCIS. “BUT I’VE BEEN ROOMS OF NICE PEOPLE BEFORE AND SOMETIM THEY TURN ON YOU.” HOW PRCIENT.IT 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. IT WAS SO HATEFUL AND AT ODDS WH THE LIBERAL MSAGE HER FANS HAVE E TO EXPECT THAT THE PERFORMANCE WAS SHUT DOWN BY THE VENUE’S OWNER MID-SET. HORS OF DIENCE MEMBERS HAD ALREADY BEGUN TO FUNNEL OUT DISGT.NOW, 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.”TO ADD SULT TO, WELL, SULT, SHOCKED WAS PERFORMG THE VERY LIBERAL—AND VERY GAY IENDLY—SAN FRANCIS. 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. HE WAS LIKELY AS NFED AS MANY OF HER FANS WERE. WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE OPEN, ANTI-TABLISHMENT, PROGRSIVE MICHELLE SHOCKED THEY HAD FALLEN LOVE WH?AFTER ALL, AS MUCH AS SHOCKED’S BURST OF FAME THE LATE ‘80S AND ‘90S WAS OWED TO HER MIC, ALSO REFLECTED THE RONANCE OF THE PROGRSIVE POLIL MSAG SHE PREACHED. THIS IS THE WOMAN WHO SPRAY-PATED?? THE SYMBOL FOR ANARCHY A MIC VIO AND APPEARED ON AN ALBUM VER BEG RRIED A CHOKEHOLD BY POLICE. SHE RAGED AGAST THE BH ADMISTRATN AFTER 9/11, TELLG AN DIENCE AT A NCERT 2003 THAT “BH SHOULD HAVE PULLED OUT OF IRAQ LIKE HIS FATHER SHOULD HAVE.” IN 2011, SHE WAS ARRTED AT AN OCCUPY LOS ANGEL MONSTRATN.HECK, FOR MOST OF HER EARLY REER, SHE SEEMED HAPPY TO LET OTHERS BELIEVE SHE WAS GAY.AS SUCH, FOLLOWG HER REMARKS, THE TWTERSPHERE IGNED WH OUTRAGE. “ENJOY YOUR VANISHGLY BRIEF MOMENT OF MATTERG AGA,” TWEETED @DRGRIST. “TALK ABOUT MISREADG YOUR DIENCE. GONNA BE A LONG TIME BEFORE #SHORTSHARPSHOCKED RIS THAT BULL AGA. #BUHBYE,” ECHOED @ROOTRIVIREN. 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. #SHORTSHARPSHOCKED.”ODDLY ENOUGH, WAS SOCIAL MEDIA THAT NOT TOO LONG AGO BREATHED NEW LIFE TO WHAT HAD BEEN A FLAT-LG REER. (IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME—S—SCE SONGS LIKE “COME A LONG WAY” AND “ON THE GREENER SI” EARNED SHOCKED RPECTABLE ROTATN ON MTV.) BUT LIKE MANY SGERS, REENGAGEMENT WH NOSTALGIC FANS THROUGH S LIKE TWTER STOKED HER REER AND TOURG SCHLE. AT SUNDAY NIGHT’S SHOW, SHOCKED EVEN ASKED HER FANS TO HELP CHOOSE HER SET LIST BY TWEETG TO A FAN NAMED MATT PENFIELD, WHO SHE HAD VED ONSTAGE TO ACT AS HER TWTER LIAISON.TWTER SAVED HER REER. NOW, JT MIGHT KILL , TOO.ALREADY, FUTURE BOOKERS ARE NCELG SHOCKED’S SHOWS. “MANY OF YOU HAVE REACHED OUT ALREADY FOLLOWG AN UGLY RANT GIVEN BY MICHELLE SHOCKED AT HER SHOW SAN FRANCIS LAST NIGHT,” PROMOTERS OF SPACE, A VENUE ILLOIS, POSTED ON S FACEBOOK PAGE. “AFTER SPEAKG WH THE PROMOTER OF THAT SHOW ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE REMARKS, ’S CLEAR THAT THIS IS NO LONGER A SHOW WE’RE WILLG TO PUT OUR NAME ON.” THE GIG WAS SCRAPPED, AND REFUNDS ARE BEG OFFERED.IN FACT, NE OF HER UPG SHOWS HAVE ALREADY BEEN NCELED.AS A METHOD OF FAN ALIENATN, SHOCKED’S RANT IS AK TO JT BIEBER SAYG TWEEN GIRLS HAVE OTI, OR TAYLOR SWIFT PROCLAIMG LOVE IS AD, Y’ALL. THIS, OF URSE, IS A MUCH MORE SER SUBJECT MATTER AND REFLECTS A MUCH MORE HATEFUL RHETORIC. IT’S ALSO, A MUCH STARKER SHIFT BELIEFS.AFTER ALL, SHOCKED ONCE—THOUGH AMBIGUOLY, AND PERHAPS WH THE TENT OF PROVOTN—SUATED THAT SHE WAS A LBIAN.AFTER BEATG THE INDIGO GIRLS AND TRACY CHAPMAN FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR AT THE 1989 NEW MIC AWARDS, SHE JOKED THE TEGORY SHOULD BE RENAMED “THEY MIGHT BE LBIANS.” IN 1990, THERE WAS NO “THEY MIGHT BE” ABOUT . SHE TOLD THE CHIGO PAPER OUTL, “I WAS WH MY FIRST WOMAN LOVER ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. TO BE HONT, THE REAL FEAR OF G OUT OF THE CLOSET, NOT FEAR, BUT THE REAL PRSUR OF G OUT OF THE CLOSET HAD BEEN IF YOU HAD CERTA PROBLEMS INTIFYG YOURSELF ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.” SHE WENT ON TO BALK AT THE FULL-ON LBIAN LABEL, SAYG, “I THK, IF THIS IS ANY SENSE A ‘G OUT’ ON MY PART, ’S THAT I WOULD LIKE A MUCH BROAR FN FOR MYSELF.”SHOCKED MARRIED (MALE) JOURNALIST BART BULL 1990, BUT DIVORCED 2004. IN THE MID-‘90S, SHE BEME VOLVED WH THE WT ANGEL CHURCH OF GOD CHRIST, EVENTUALLY BEG A BORN-AGA CHRISTIAN. HER VIEWS ON HOMOSEXUALY QUICKLY EVOLVED, BUT WERE HARDLY HOMOPHOBIC.“THERE ARE SOME NVENIENT TTHS THAT I’M NOW A BORN AGA, SANCTIFIED, SAVED--THE-BLOOD CHRISTIAN,” SHE TOLD THE DALLAS VOICE 2008. “SO MUCH OF WHAT’S SAID AND DONE THE NAME OF THAT CHRISTIANY IS APPALLG. ACRDG TO MY BIBLE, WHICH I DIDN’T WRE, HOMOSEXUALY IS IMMORAL. BUT HOMOSEXUALY IS NO MORE OR LS A S THAN FORNITN. AND I’M A FORNITOR WH A PAL F.”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. "LISTEN, I DON’T HAVE THE ANSWER FOR HOW GAY MARRIAGE OR THE HOMOSEXUAL QUTN RELAT TO CHRISTIANY. GOD’S POWER N RENCILE THOSE WHOM HE LOV. I DON’T KNOW HOW, BUT HE N DO . IT’S A MYSTERY. AND I DON’T HAVE THE ANSWER, BUT I WILL POT YOU THE RIGHT DIRECTN." IT’S NOT EXACTLY A VIEW THAT WOULD KEYNOTE A LGBT PRI PARA, BUT HARDLY REFLECTS THE ANTI-GAY RANT SHE POED SUNDAY NIGHT.STILL, 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. “WHO DRAFTED ME AS A GAY IN?” SHE SAID. “YOU ARE LOOKG AT THE WORLD’S GREATT HOMOPHOBE. ASK GOD WHAT HE THKS.” ASSSG THE DAMAGE SHOCKED JT FLICTED ON HER REER, DAILY KOS WROTE, “I THK IS SAFE TO ASSUME THAT SHE HAS EFFECTIVELY SOILED HERSELF TO THE POT OF ONLY ATTRACTG FOLKS OM WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH, NOM AND THE FAY REARCH COUNCIL TO FUTURE NCERTS.” BUT N THE WOMAN WHO PUT BH ON BLAST AND IS UNTED AMONG THE OCCUPY ARRTE EVEN UNT ON THAT?SHOCKED HAS YET TO DIRECTLY ADDRS SUNDAY NIGHT’S FIAS, AND HASN’T RPOND TO REQUTS FOR MENT FOR THIS ARTICLE. SHE LEFT JT ONE AMBIGUO TWEET: “TTH IS LEADG TO PAFUL NONTATN.” INED. KEV FALLON
• MICHELLE SHOCKED APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY RANT…AND WE’RE LIKE, HUH?HUH?AFTER ENRAGG FANS WH A VIRAL ANTIGAY RANT, FOLK SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED SAYS SHE’S “DAMN SORRY.” BUT HER BIZARRE STATEMENT HAS ONLY RAISED MORE QUTNS. BY KEV FALLON.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 12:09AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 20, 2013 6:35PM EDT MARK METLFE/GETTYMICHELLE SHOCKED IS SORRY. KD OF. MAYBE.THE FOLK SGER IGNED THE BLOGOSPHERE ON TUDAY WHEN REPORTS OF HER VRLIC ANTIGAY RANT AT A SAN FRANCIS NCERT SUNDAY NIGHT MA THEIR WAY TO THE WEB. NOW—MORE THAN 24 HOURS AND 10 NCELED TOUR DAT LATER—SHE’S ATTEMPTG TO PUT OUT THE FLAM. IN A LENGTHY STATEMENT RELEASED TO SEVERAL NEWS OUTLETS, SHOCKED IS SAYG HER MENTS WERE MISUNRSTOOD, AND SHE’S SORRY. BUT HER MEA CULPA IS A B OF A MS, AND RAIS AS MANY QUTNS AS ANSWERS.CONSIR THE SOURCE. THROUGHOUT HER THREE-AND-A-HALF- REER, WHICH PEAKED THE LATE ’80S AND EARLY ’90S, SHOCKED WAS AS MUCH A PROGRSIVE ACTIVIST AS A SGER, A TRA THAT WON HER LEGNS OF FANS. THAT’S NOT TO MENTN HER IMPLIC SUATN THAT SHE WAS A LBIAN, MA NUMERO TIM HER EARLY REER. FROM LBIAN TO HOMOPHOBE? THAT’S WHAT MANY, CLUD, THOUGHT. “I DO NOT, NOR HAVE I EVER, SAID OR BELIEVED THAT GOD HAT HOMOSEXUALS (OR ANYONE ELSE),” THE STATEMENT BEGS. “I SAID THAT SOME OF HIS FOLLOWERS BELIEVE THAT.”THAT HEADLE-GRABBG B—THAT SHE TOLD HER DIENCE TO “GO ON TWTER AND SAY MICHELLE SHOCKED SAID ‘GOD HAT FAGS’”—IS EXPLAED AWAY AS SOME SORT OF SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. “I WAS PREDICTG THE ABSURD WAY MY SCRIPTN OF, MY APOLOGY FOR, THE TOLERANT WOULD NO DOUBT BE MISTERPRETED,” SHOCKED SAYS.THIS MAY BE REASSURG TO SOME FANS, BUT ’S STILL A B NFG. SHOCKED’S MENTS SUNDAY NIGHT, WHICH BEGAN WH A DISCSN ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE, WEREN’T PREFACED WH ANY EXPLANATN THAT SHE WASN’T SPEAKG OM THE FIRST PERSON, OR THAT SHE WAS ALLUDG TO WHAT “HIS FOLLOWERS BELIEVE” AND NOT HER OWN VIEWS. “WHEN THEY STOP PROP 8 AND FORCE PRITS AT GUNPOT TO MARRY GAYS, WILL BE THE DOWNFALL OF CIVILIZATN, AND J WILL E BACK,” SHE SAID DURG THE PERFORMANCE. NO HT THAT SHE WAS CHANNELG THE OPNS OF OTHERS.IF THAT SEGMENT OF SHOCKED’S APOLOGY IS HARD TO FOLLOW, THE NEXT PART IS NOT. UNEQUIVOLLY, SHE SAYS SHE IS NOT HOMOPHOBIC, AS HER MENTS WERE NSTED. “MY VIEW OF HOMOSEXUALY HAS CHANGED NOT ONE TA,” SHE SAYS. “I JUDGE NOT.” LATER THE STATEMENT, SHE NTU, “WHAT IS BEG QUTNED IS MY SUPPORT FOR THE LGBT MUNY, AND THAT HAS NEVER WAVERED.”PEOPLE HOPG FOR ANSWERS TO OTHER QUTNS ARE OUT OF LUCK. IN SEVERAL TERVIEWS AND MENTS THE PAST, SHOCKED INTIFIED AS A LBIAN. Y, SHE WAS LATER MARRIED TO A MAN, BUT IS SHE NYG NOW THAT SHE EVER INTIFIED AS LGBT? “FOLKS WONR ABOUT MY SEXUALY,” THE NEW STATEMENT READS, “BUT NYG BEG GAY IS LIKE SAYG I NEVER BEAT MY HBAND. MY SEXUALY IS NOT AN ISSUE.”BUT IF SHE DIDN’T MEAN ANY OF WHAT SHE WAS SAYG, WHY THE WORLD WOULD SHE BRG UP THE HOT-BUTTON ISSUE THE FIRST PLACE? HER ANSWER TO THAT IS TRATGLY WONKY: “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.”HUH?A TORRENT OF BAD PRS FOLLOWED SHOCKED’S MENTS, AND VENU ALMOST IMMEDIATELY REACTED TO NEWS OF HER MENTS BY NCELG HER UPG GIGS. SHOCKED REMAED TRATGLY QUIET ALL DAY WEDNDAY. REPEATED LLS TO HER TOURG MANAGER WERE NOT RETURNED, AND MSAG TO THE ONLY PUBLICIST ASSOCIATED WH HER WERE MET WH EXASPERATN. “I HAVE NOT WORKED WH MICHELLE SHOCKED FOUR YEARS,” CARY BAKER, THE PUBLICIST, SAID. “WE FD HER RECENT STATEMENTS ABOUT MARRIAGE EQUALY SHAMEFUL AND OFFENSIVE, BUT WE HAVE NO PERSONAL NOR PROFSNAL ASSOCIATN WH MS. SHOCKED AT THIS TIME, NOR DO WE ANTICIPATE WORKG WH HER AGA AT ANY TIME THE FUTURE.” AND BEE BEARS REPEATG: “WE HAVE NOT WORKED WH HER RECENT YEARS.”FOLLOWG HER STATEMENT TODAY, ATTEMPTS TO REACH OUT TO SHOCKED VIA HER WEBSE, HER TOURG MANAGER (AGA), AND HER FACEBOOK PAGE WERE AGA UNMET, WHICH IS A SHAME BEE SO MUCH OF HER APOLOGY IS NFG. MALY, HER SILENCE IS DISAPPOTG BEE ONE GIANT QUTN LGERS: IF SHE DO NOT BELIEVE THE HATEFUL THGS, WHY DID SHE WA SO LONG TO CLEAR THE RERD?A PUBLICY STUNT? “I’M NOT REALLY THAT CLEVER, AND I’M FELY NOT THAT CYNIL,” SHE SAYS HER STATEMENT.NOHELS, SHOCKED SAYS, “I AM DAMN SORRY.” FOR NOW, THAT’S GOOD TO HEAR—AND WILL HAVE TO BE ENOUGH. KEV FALLON
• MICHELLE SHOCKED GO ON ANTI-GAY RANT DURG SAN FRANCIS SHOW, CANCELLATNS FOLLOW
• MICHELLE SHOCKED’S TOUR VANISH FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
• MICHELLE SHOCKED ADDRS ANTI-GAY COMMENTS ON TWTER; RERDG SURFAC (AUD)
• MICHELLE SHOCKED APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY RANT AT SF SHOW, AUD EMERG
• MICHELLE SHOCKED’S TOUR VANISH FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
• SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED GO ON ANTI-GAY RANT DURG SAN FRANCIS SHOW, CANCELLATNS FOLLOW

MICHELLE SHOCKED 'DAMN SORRY' FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS

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.

" Jt as she do not "judge … homosexualy", she ref to judge the evangelil Christians who revile . "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.

SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED STUNS FANS WH ANTI-GAY RANT

"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. 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.

MICHELLE SHOCKED RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY

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?

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

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.

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

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

' " 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. But an terview wh gay newspaper the Dallas Voice  2008 spoke about sexual polics and beg born-aga. "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.

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. 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 APOLOGIZ, SAYS ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS WERE MISUNRSTOOD

“My view of homosexualy has changed not one ta, ” she said, acrdg to a statement given to Buzzfeed. 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. 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’S CRAZY SWCH FROM LBIAN TO HOMOPHOBESHORT SHARP SHOCKEDMICHELLE SHOCKED LLED HERSELF GAY. NOW SHE’S CHASG AWAY HER FANS BY TNTG, “GOD HAT FAGS.”KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 12:08AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 19, 2013 1:55PM EDT LEON MORRIS/REDFERNS, VIA GETTY,LEON MORRIS“YOU ALL SEEM VERY NICE,” FOLK SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED TOLD A CROWD OF FANS GATHERED FOR A NCERT SAN FRANCIS. “BUT I’VE BEEN ROOMS OF NICE PEOPLE BEFORE AND SOMETIM THEY TURN ON YOU.” HOW PRCIENT.IT 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. IT WAS SO HATEFUL AND AT ODDS WH THE LIBERAL MSAGE HER FANS HAVE E TO EXPECT THAT THE PERFORMANCE WAS SHUT DOWN BY THE VENUE’S OWNER MID-SET. HORS OF DIENCE MEMBERS HAD ALREADY BEGUN TO FUNNEL OUT DISGT.NOW, 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.”TO ADD SULT TO, WELL, SULT, SHOCKED WAS PERFORMG THE VERY LIBERAL—AND VERY GAY IENDLY—SAN FRANCIS. 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. HE WAS LIKELY AS NFED AS MANY OF HER FANS WERE. WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE OPEN, ANTI-TABLISHMENT, PROGRSIVE MICHELLE SHOCKED THEY HAD FALLEN LOVE WH?AFTER ALL, AS MUCH AS SHOCKED’S BURST OF FAME THE LATE ‘80S AND ‘90S WAS OWED TO HER MIC, ALSO REFLECTED THE RONANCE OF THE PROGRSIVE POLIL MSAG SHE PREACHED. THIS IS THE WOMAN WHO SPRAY-PATED?? THE SYMBOL FOR ANARCHY A MIC VIO AND APPEARED ON AN ALBUM VER BEG RRIED A CHOKEHOLD BY POLICE. SHE RAGED AGAST THE BH ADMISTRATN AFTER 9/11, TELLG AN DIENCE AT A NCERT 2003 THAT “BH SHOULD HAVE PULLED OUT OF IRAQ LIKE HIS FATHER SHOULD HAVE.” IN 2011, SHE WAS ARRTED AT AN OCCUPY LOS ANGEL MONSTRATN.HECK, FOR MOST OF HER EARLY REER, SHE SEEMED HAPPY TO LET OTHERS BELIEVE SHE WAS GAY.AS SUCH, FOLLOWG HER REMARKS, THE TWTERSPHERE IGNED WH OUTRAGE. “ENJOY YOUR VANISHGLY BRIEF MOMENT OF MATTERG AGA,” TWEETED @DRGRIST. “TALK ABOUT MISREADG YOUR DIENCE. GONNA BE A LONG TIME BEFORE #SHORTSHARPSHOCKED RIS THAT BULL AGA. #BUHBYE,” ECHOED @ROOTRIVIREN. 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. #SHORTSHARPSHOCKED.”ODDLY ENOUGH, WAS SOCIAL MEDIA THAT NOT TOO LONG AGO BREATHED NEW LIFE TO WHAT HAD BEEN A FLAT-LG REER. (IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME—S—SCE SONGS LIKE “COME A LONG WAY” AND “ON THE GREENER SI” EARNED SHOCKED RPECTABLE ROTATN ON MTV.) BUT LIKE MANY SGERS, REENGAGEMENT WH NOSTALGIC FANS THROUGH S LIKE TWTER STOKED HER REER AND TOURG SCHLE. AT SUNDAY NIGHT’S SHOW, SHOCKED EVEN ASKED HER FANS TO HELP CHOOSE HER SET LIST BY TWEETG TO A FAN NAMED MATT PENFIELD, WHO SHE HAD VED ONSTAGE TO ACT AS HER TWTER LIAISON.TWTER SAVED HER REER. NOW, JT MIGHT KILL , TOO.ALREADY, FUTURE BOOKERS ARE NCELG SHOCKED’S SHOWS. “MANY OF YOU HAVE REACHED OUT ALREADY FOLLOWG AN UGLY RANT GIVEN BY MICHELLE SHOCKED AT HER SHOW SAN FRANCIS LAST NIGHT,” PROMOTERS OF SPACE, A VENUE ILLOIS, POSTED ON S FACEBOOK PAGE. “AFTER SPEAKG WH THE PROMOTER OF THAT SHOW ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE REMARKS, ’S CLEAR THAT THIS IS NO LONGER A SHOW WE’RE WILLG TO PUT OUR NAME ON.” THE GIG WAS SCRAPPED, AND REFUNDS ARE BEG OFFERED.IN FACT, NE OF HER UPG SHOWS HAVE ALREADY BEEN NCELED.AS A METHOD OF FAN ALIENATN, SHOCKED’S RANT IS AK TO JT BIEBER SAYG TWEEN GIRLS HAVE OTI, OR TAYLOR SWIFT PROCLAIMG LOVE IS AD, Y’ALL. THIS, OF URSE, IS A MUCH MORE SER SUBJECT MATTER AND REFLECTS A MUCH MORE HATEFUL RHETORIC. IT’S ALSO, A MUCH STARKER SHIFT BELIEFS.AFTER ALL, SHOCKED ONCE—THOUGH AMBIGUOLY, AND PERHAPS WH THE TENT OF PROVOTN—SUATED THAT SHE WAS A LBIAN.AFTER BEATG THE INDIGO GIRLS AND TRACY CHAPMAN FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR AT THE 1989 NEW MIC AWARDS, SHE JOKED THE TEGORY SHOULD BE RENAMED “THEY MIGHT BE LBIANS.” IN 1990, THERE WAS NO “THEY MIGHT BE” ABOUT . SHE TOLD THE CHIGO PAPER OUTL, “I WAS WH MY FIRST WOMAN LOVER ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. TO BE HONT, THE REAL FEAR OF G OUT OF THE CLOSET, NOT FEAR, BUT THE REAL PRSUR OF G OUT OF THE CLOSET HAD BEEN IF YOU HAD CERTA PROBLEMS INTIFYG YOURSELF ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.” SHE WENT ON TO BALK AT THE FULL-ON LBIAN LABEL, SAYG, “I THK, IF THIS IS ANY SENSE A ‘G OUT’ ON MY PART, ’S THAT I WOULD LIKE A MUCH BROAR FN FOR MYSELF.”SHOCKED MARRIED (MALE) JOURNALIST BART BULL 1990, BUT DIVORCED 2004. IN THE MID-‘90S, SHE BEME VOLVED WH THE WT ANGEL CHURCH OF GOD CHRIST, EVENTUALLY BEG A BORN-AGA CHRISTIAN. HER VIEWS ON HOMOSEXUALY QUICKLY EVOLVED, BUT WERE HARDLY HOMOPHOBIC.“THERE ARE SOME NVENIENT TTHS THAT I’M NOW A BORN AGA, SANCTIFIED, SAVED--THE-BLOOD CHRISTIAN,” SHE TOLD THE DALLAS VOICE 2008. “SO MUCH OF WHAT’S SAID AND DONE THE NAME OF THAT CHRISTIANY IS APPALLG. ACRDG TO MY BIBLE, WHICH I DIDN’T WRE, HOMOSEXUALY IS IMMORAL. BUT HOMOSEXUALY IS NO MORE OR LS A S THAN FORNITN. AND I’M A FORNITOR WH A PAL F.”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. "LISTEN, I DON’T HAVE THE ANSWER FOR HOW GAY MARRIAGE OR THE HOMOSEXUAL QUTN RELAT TO CHRISTIANY. GOD’S POWER N RENCILE THOSE WHOM HE LOV. I DON’T KNOW HOW, BUT HE N DO . IT’S A MYSTERY. AND I DON’T HAVE THE ANSWER, BUT I WILL POT YOU THE RIGHT DIRECTN." IT’S NOT EXACTLY A VIEW THAT WOULD KEYNOTE A LGBT PRI PARA, BUT HARDLY REFLECTS THE ANTI-GAY RANT SHE POED SUNDAY NIGHT.STILL, 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. “WHO DRAFTED ME AS A GAY IN?” SHE SAID. “YOU ARE LOOKG AT THE WORLD’S GREATT HOMOPHOBE. ASK GOD WHAT HE THKS.” ASSSG THE DAMAGE SHOCKED JT FLICTED ON HER REER, DAILY KOS WROTE, “I THK IS SAFE TO ASSUME THAT SHE HAS EFFECTIVELY SOILED HERSELF TO THE POT OF ONLY ATTRACTG FOLKS OM WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH, NOM AND THE FAY REARCH COUNCIL TO FUTURE NCERTS.” BUT N THE WOMAN WHO PUT BH ON BLAST AND IS UNTED AMONG THE OCCUPY ARRTE EVEN UNT ON THAT?SHOCKED HAS YET TO DIRECTLY ADDRS SUNDAY NIGHT’S FIAS, AND HASN’T RPOND TO REQUTS FOR MENT FOR THIS ARTICLE. SHE LEFT JT ONE AMBIGUO TWEET: “TTH IS LEADG TO PAFUL NONTATN.” INED. KEV FALLON

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.

MICHELLE SHOCKED APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY RANT…AND WE’RE LIKE, HUH?HUH?AFTER ENRAGG FANS WH A VIRAL ANTIGAY RANT, FOLK SGER MICHELLE SHOCKED SAYS SHE’S “DAMN SORRY.” BUT HER BIZARRE STATEMENT HAS ONLY RAISED MORE QUTNS. BY KEV FALLON.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 12:09AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 20, 2013 6:35PM EDT MARK METLFE/GETTYMICHELLE SHOCKED IS SORRY. KD OF. MAYBE.THE FOLK SGER IGNED THE BLOGOSPHERE ON TUDAY WHEN REPORTS OF HER VRLIC ANTIGAY RANT AT A SAN FRANCIS NCERT SUNDAY NIGHT MA THEIR WAY TO THE WEB. NOW—MORE THAN 24 HOURS AND 10 NCELED TOUR DAT LATER—SHE’S ATTEMPTG TO PUT OUT THE FLAM. IN A LENGTHY STATEMENT RELEASED TO SEVERAL NEWS OUTLETS, SHOCKED IS SAYG HER MENTS WERE MISUNRSTOOD, AND SHE’S SORRY. BUT HER MEA CULPA IS A B OF A MS, AND RAIS AS MANY QUTNS AS ANSWERS.CONSIR THE SOURCE. THROUGHOUT HER THREE-AND-A-HALF- REER, WHICH PEAKED THE LATE ’80S AND EARLY ’90S, SHOCKED WAS AS MUCH A PROGRSIVE ACTIVIST AS A SGER, A TRA THAT WON HER LEGNS OF FANS. THAT’S NOT TO MENTN HER IMPLIC SUATN THAT SHE WAS A LBIAN, MA NUMERO TIM HER EARLY REER. FROM LBIAN TO HOMOPHOBE? THAT’S WHAT MANY, CLUD, THOUGHT. “I DO NOT, NOR HAVE I EVER, SAID OR BELIEVED THAT GOD HAT HOMOSEXUALS (OR ANYONE ELSE),” THE STATEMENT BEGS. “I SAID THAT SOME OF HIS FOLLOWERS BELIEVE THAT.”THAT HEADLE-GRABBG B—THAT SHE TOLD HER DIENCE TO “GO ON TWTER AND SAY MICHELLE SHOCKED SAID ‘GOD HAT FAGS’”—IS EXPLAED AWAY AS SOME SORT OF SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. “I WAS PREDICTG THE ABSURD WAY MY SCRIPTN OF, MY APOLOGY FOR, THE TOLERANT WOULD NO DOUBT BE MISTERPRETED,” SHOCKED SAYS.THIS MAY BE REASSURG TO SOME FANS, BUT ’S STILL A B NFG. SHOCKED’S MENTS SUNDAY NIGHT, WHICH BEGAN WH A DISCSN ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE, WEREN’T PREFACED WH ANY EXPLANATN THAT SHE WASN’T SPEAKG OM THE FIRST PERSON, OR THAT SHE WAS ALLUDG TO WHAT “HIS FOLLOWERS BELIEVE” AND NOT HER OWN VIEWS. “WHEN THEY STOP PROP 8 AND FORCE PRITS AT GUNPOT TO MARRY GAYS, WILL BE THE DOWNFALL OF CIVILIZATN, AND J WILL E BACK,” SHE SAID DURG THE PERFORMANCE. NO HT THAT SHE WAS CHANNELG THE OPNS OF OTHERS.IF THAT SEGMENT OF SHOCKED’S APOLOGY IS HARD TO FOLLOW, THE NEXT PART IS NOT. UNEQUIVOLLY, SHE SAYS SHE IS NOT HOMOPHOBIC, AS HER MENTS WERE NSTED. “MY VIEW OF HOMOSEXUALY HAS CHANGED NOT ONE TA,” SHE SAYS. “I JUDGE NOT.” LATER THE STATEMENT, SHE NTU, “WHAT IS BEG QUTNED IS MY SUPPORT FOR THE LGBT MUNY, AND THAT HAS NEVER WAVERED.”PEOPLE HOPG FOR ANSWERS TO OTHER QUTNS ARE OUT OF LUCK. IN SEVERAL TERVIEWS AND MENTS THE PAST, SHOCKED INTIFIED AS A LBIAN. Y, SHE WAS LATER MARRIED TO A MAN, BUT IS SHE NYG NOW THAT SHE EVER INTIFIED AS LGBT? “FOLKS WONR ABOUT MY SEXUALY,” THE NEW STATEMENT READS, “BUT NYG BEG GAY IS LIKE SAYG I NEVER BEAT MY HBAND. MY SEXUALY IS NOT AN ISSUE.”BUT IF SHE DIDN’T MEAN ANY OF WHAT SHE WAS SAYG, WHY THE WORLD WOULD SHE BRG UP THE HOT-BUTTON ISSUE THE FIRST PLACE? HER ANSWER TO THAT IS TRATGLY WONKY: “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.”HUH?A TORRENT OF BAD PRS FOLLOWED SHOCKED’S MENTS, AND VENU ALMOST IMMEDIATELY REACTED TO NEWS OF HER MENTS BY NCELG HER UPG GIGS. SHOCKED REMAED TRATGLY QUIET ALL DAY WEDNDAY. REPEATED LLS TO HER TOURG MANAGER WERE NOT RETURNED, AND MSAG TO THE ONLY PUBLICIST ASSOCIATED WH HER WERE MET WH EXASPERATN. “I HAVE NOT WORKED WH MICHELLE SHOCKED FOUR YEARS,” CARY BAKER, THE PUBLICIST, SAID. “WE FD HER RECENT STATEMENTS ABOUT MARRIAGE EQUALY SHAMEFUL AND OFFENSIVE, BUT WE HAVE NO PERSONAL NOR PROFSNAL ASSOCIATN WH MS. SHOCKED AT THIS TIME, NOR DO WE ANTICIPATE WORKG WH HER AGA AT ANY TIME THE FUTURE.” AND BEE BEARS REPEATG: “WE HAVE NOT WORKED WH HER RECENT YEARS.”FOLLOWG HER STATEMENT TODAY, ATTEMPTS TO REACH OUT TO SHOCKED VIA HER WEBSE, HER TOURG MANAGER (AGA), AND HER FACEBOOK PAGE WERE AGA UNMET, WHICH IS A SHAME BEE SO MUCH OF HER APOLOGY IS NFG. MALY, HER SILENCE IS DISAPPOTG BEE ONE GIANT QUTN LGERS: IF SHE DO NOT BELIEVE THE HATEFUL THGS, WHY DID SHE WA SO LONG TO CLEAR THE RERD?A PUBLICY STUNT? “I’M NOT REALLY THAT CLEVER, AND I’M FELY NOT THAT CYNIL,” SHE SAYS HER STATEMENT.NOHELS, SHOCKED SAYS, “I AM DAMN SORRY.” FOR NOW, THAT’S GOOD TO HEAR—AND WILL HAVE TO BE ENOUGH. KEV FALLON

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. " Her ments about Proposn 8 were "neher leral nor ironic: was a scriptn of how some folks – not me – feel about gay marriage.

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

Shocked later appeared on numero outlets cludg CNN, where, a surprisgly evasive terview wh Piers Man, Shocked eventually claimed that she was "not homophobic. The sger urged the San Francis crowd%2C%22You n go on Twter and say%2C%27Michelle Shocked says God hat%28anti-gay slur%29%27%22The Chigo venue where she was set to perform May 5 nceled her performanceTwtersphere has reacted wh%23shortsharpshockedUPDATE: Michelle Shocked has rpond to the ntroversy wh a uple of vague tweets:First: "I'm abidg, lettg everyone's te lors show before I unrtake a personal rponse to each & every tweet.

ORIGINAL POST: Controversial sger Michelle Shocked is unr fire for her anti-gay tira durg a ncert Sunday night San Francis. Wns say the born-aga Christian told the crowd at Yoshi's, "When they stop Prop 8 and force prits at gunpot to marry gays, will be the downfall of civilizatn, and J will e back, " and "You n go on Twter and say, 'Michelle Shocked says God hat (anti-gay slur). And a world where LGBT people are bullied om the pulp, on the playground, and at the polls, anti-gay hate speech n have ser nsequenc cludg legimizg bullyg and hate crim, and creasg victims' risk of anxiety, prsn, and suici.

MICHELLE SHOCKED’S TOUR VANISH FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY COMMENTS

#buhbyeDaryl Lofdahl ‏@dlofdahl10#shortsharpshocked you should stop llg yourself a punk christian sce you clearly dont unrstand eher don't hate Chworth ‏@JasonChworthMost surprisg part of @MShocked 's San Fran rant: disverg that Michelle Shocked isn't gay. 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. When she first took to the stage, thgs were fe; but durg her send set, Shocked lnched to an anti-gay rant.

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

"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. 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.

MICHELLE SHOCKED APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY RANT AT SF SHOW, AUD EMERG

"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.

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. ”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.

MICHELLE SHOCKED’S TOUR VANISH FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY COMMENTS

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. Alternative mician Michelle Shocked went on the fensive and claimed her recent anti-gay rant onstage was jt an terpretatn of "realy.

The tira clud referenc to preachers gettg "held at gunpot and forced to marry the homosexuals. " Although she attempted to lve to her portrayal of that so-lled "realy, " Man wanted to cut to the chase and fd out if she nsirs herself a homophobe or not. “If you want to keep this simple for the dience, let me jt give you a straight no, I’m not homophobic, " Shocked sisted.

The Dallas-born sger and songwrer was prevly open about her lbian experienc and even had a strong gay followg.

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

A forhadowg of her March rant me 2011 when she lamented durg the Wild Goose Ftival about her gay persona. After folk sger Michelle Shocked ma anti-gay statements durg a ncert last weekend – cludg tellg fans that they “uld go on Twter and say, ‘Michelle Shocked says God hat fags'” – she is speakg out aga. “I do not, nor have I ever, said or believed that God hat homosexuals (or anyone else), ” Shocked said a statement, reports CNN.

Acrdg to reports om the ncert, Shocked also spoke about the evils that would e if California’s Proposn 8 – which outlawed gay marriage the state – was overturned and ced vers om the Old Ttament nmng homosexualy. 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. After standg up before a San Francis crowd and gog on what appeared to be an anti-gay rant, you'd thk there would be ltle she uld do to rever om the nfoundg display.

Neverthels, Shocked would like to expla what she said, and she seems to have done so an open letter prted by the Texas Observer Sunday's show Shocked was quoted as sayg, "When they stop Prop 8 and force prits at gunpot to marry gays, will be the downfall of civilizatn and J will e back.