Tracy Man's 30 Rock star Cheyenne Jackson has joed a growg list of celebs nmng the edian for his anti-gay rant last week — durg which he said he’d “stab” his son if he turned out to be gay.
Contents:
- TRACY MAN RETURNS TO NASHVILLE TO APOLOGIZE FOR ANTI-GAY RANT
- TRACY MAN'S HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS IN ANTI-GAY STAND UP SET UPDATE: MAN APOLOGIZ
- TA FEY CALLS TRACY MAN'S ANTI-GAY RANT 'DISTURBG,' HOP HIS APOLOGY IS ACCEPTED
- TRACY MAN ISSU STATEMENT ABOUT ANTI-GAY RANT
- TRACY MAN: I'LL KILL MY SON IF HE ACTS GAY
- "30 ROCK" EPISO MOCKS TRACY MAN'S ANTI-GAY RANT
- TRACY MAN’S ANTI-GAY RANT UPSETS TA FEY, CHRIS ROCK, MUCH OF WIR WORLD
- 30 ROCK'S CHEYENNE JACKSON 'DISGTED AND APPALLED' BY TRACY MAN'S ANTI-GAY RANT
- TRACY MAN’S GAY RANT: NBC ISN’T HAPPY, BUT ’30 ROCK’ STAR STILL HAS A JOB (UPDATED)
- TRACY MAN COM UNR FIRE FOR ANTI-GAY RANT, APOLOGIZ
- TRACY MAN GO ON ANTI-GAY TIRA AT NASHVILLE SHOW
- 30 ROCK'S TRACY MAN DECLAR, 'IF I HAD A GAY SON I WOULD LOVE HIM'
- STARS NOUNCE TRACY MAN'S ANTI-GAY RANT
- TRACY MAN APOLOGIZ TO KEV ROGERS, GAY COMMUNY FOR HOMOPHOBIC RANT
- TRACY MAN APOLOGIZ FOR GAY JOK, BUT IS IT ENOUGH?
TRACY MAN RETURNS TO NASHVILLE TO APOLOGIZE FOR ANTI-GAY RANT
Tracy Man is back Nashville to make amends for his gay rant durg a standup appearance earlier this month as part of his marathon of after meetg wh gay teens * tracy morgan gay rant *
June 21, 2011— -- Tracy Man returned to Nashville Tuday morng to liver a personal apology for his notor performance earlier this month that was wily nmned for s anti-gay remarks. "Sce Man's June 3rd performance, he has teamed up wh the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, met wh homels gay teens and a mom who lost her child to anti-gay vlence, agreed to participate an anti-bullyg PSA and lled homophobia "a sickns. Frank, but Carl Siciliano, the director of the Ali Forney Center for homels gay youth New York Cy, told "I don't thk there n be too much tryg to make up for .
"Siciliano said durg the hour that Man met wh two teens and mother Elke Kennedy, whose son Sean was a victim of anti-gay vlence, he appeared scere, listeng attentively and relatg some of his own experienc to soon as the meetg was over, however, Man began to cry. Kennedy, who acpanied Man to the prs nference Nashville, believ her story, the nversatns wh the gay teens and this entire experience have had a profound impact on Man. "In a state that ntu to put anti-gay laws on the books, 's now more important than ever that we let Tennseans know that homophobia has no place on or off the stage.
TRACY MAN'S HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS IN ANTI-GAY STAND UP SET UPDATE: MAN APOLOGIZ
Tracy Man is apologizg for his "choice of words" durg an anti-gay rant he unleashed at a Nashville, Tenn., edy club last week -- durg which he suggted he'd "stab" his son if he turned out to be an effemate homosexual. * tracy morgan gay rant *
"The onle outcry agast Man me immediately followg his stand-up show June 3 at the Ryman Audorium , who is gay, wrote on his Facebook page about Man's over-the-top ments.
In a post, tled "Why I No Longer 'Like' Tracy Man, he wrote: "I figured at some pot the gay jok would fly, and I'm well prepared for a good ribbg of straight gay humor. Man took upon himself to mentn about how he feels all this gay s**t was crazy and that women are a gift om God and that 'Born this Way' is bulls**t, gay is a choice, and the reason he knows this is exactly bee 'God don't make no mistak. "His remarks were roundly nmned by GLAAD and other gay rights' groups; NBC print Bob Greenblatt, who said his ments "will not be tolerated"; and "30 Rock" creator Ta Fey, who found the route "disturbg to me at a time when homophobic hate crim ntue to be a life-threateng issue.
"Then he me out as a supporter of gay Friday, he met wh teens at New York Cy's Ali Forney Center, the natn's largt anizatn servg homels gay and transgenr youth. UPDATE: Tracy Man issued a statement to The Huffgton Post through his reprentative:“I want to apologize to my fans and the gay & lbian muny for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act Nashville. ”_____PREVIOUSLY: Tracy Man's latt standup set is no lghg Rogers attend Man's standup show last Friday and reported on his Facebook page that Man let loose a vicly homophobic rant that, as far as he uld tell, was a ad ser attack on gay men and women.
TA FEY CALLS TRACY MAN'S ANTI-GAY RANT 'DISTURBG,' HOP HIS APOLOGY IS ACCEPTED
Episo targeted the actor/edian, who got hot water last June after makg anti-gay remarks durg a stand-up appearance * tracy morgan gay rant *
Rogers, who is gay, wrote: I figured at some pot the gay jok would fly and I'm well prepared for a good ribbg of straight gay humor. Man took upon himself to mentn about how he feels all this gay s* was crazy and that women are a gift om God and that "Born this Way" is bulls*, gay is a choice, and the reason he knows this is exactly bee "God don't make no mistak" (referrg to God not makg someone gay e that would be a mistake).
Perhaps most strikgly, Rogers wrote that Man said:He said if his son that was gay he better e home and talk to him like a man and not [he mimicked a gay, high pched voice] or he would pull out a knife and stab that ltle N (one word I refe to e) to ntued to scribe the rant, which we've excerpted:He took time to vis the bulls* of this bullyg stuff and rmed that the gays need to qu beg psi and not be whg about somethg as signifint as bullyg.
He mentned that gay was somethg kids learn om the media and programmg, and that bullied kids should jt bt some ass and beat those other ltle f*ckers that bully them, not whe about . After makg ments about Print Obama, Rogers wrote that Man fished his rant fiantly: Tracy then said he didn't f*ckg re if he pissed off some gays, bee if they n take a f*ckg dick up their ass... "Man has a history of homophobic tiras on stage, sayg that beg gay was a choice, among other thgs, at a 2009 standup performance at New York's Carnegie his actg reer, however, Man has often played gay or at least sexually ambiguo.
TRACY MAN ISSU STATEMENT ABOUT ANTI-GAY RANT
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He played a transvte mate the Adam Sandler edy, "The Longt Yard, " and many of his "Saturday Night Live" characters were of qutnable sexualy, cludg the sophomoric zookeeper Brian Huffgton Post has reached out to his reprentative for ment, and will update if any statement is the CommunyYou May Like.
(CBS) Tracy Man has issued an apology - of sorts - through a reprentative for his homophobic rant last week durg a stand-up performance Nashville, Tenn. "I want to apologize to my fans and the gay & lbian muny for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act Nashville, " the statement read.
TRACY MAN: I'LL KILL MY SON IF HE ACTS GAY
Five years after Michael Richards' famo racist tira at the Lgh Factory, another famo edian, 30 Rock's Tracy Man, is g unr fire over a rant durg a stand-up performance, this time beratg gay people. * tracy morgan gay rant *
" In that note, he scribed ments ma about gay men and women which Man said gays need to qu whg about bullyg and that beg gay is a choice. "[Man] said if his son that was gay he better e home and talk to him like a man and not [he mimicked a gay, high pched voice] or he would pull out a knife and stab that ltle N (one word I refe to e) to ath. In a statement, Jarrett Barrs, print of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn said NBC had taken "an important first step by nmng anti-gay vlence" but urged the work to "ph Man to tell his fans that such vlence is not only not funny, but unacceptable.
NASHVILLE -- Tracy Man apologized Friday for his homophobic rant durg a edy route at a Nashville show, durg which he said homosexuals should stop whg about beg bullied.
"30 ROCK" EPISO MOCKS TRACY MAN'S ANTI-GAY RANT
A rep for the theater apologiz after an dience member who attend the "30 Rock" star's June 3 show claims Man told the dience he would "pull out a knife and stab" his own son if he were gay. * tracy morgan gay rant *
"While I am an equal opportuny jokter, and my iends know what is my heart, even a edy club this clearly went too far and was not funny any ntext, " the statement a June 3 performance at Tennsee's Ryman Audorium, Man said beg "gay was somethg kids learn om the media and programmg" and that "gays need to qu beg p*ssi and not be whg about somethg as signifint as bullyg. "The "30 Rock" star add that "if his son was gay he better e home and talk to him like a man … or he would pull out a knife and stab that ltle n**ger to ath.
As far as I uld see 10 to 15 people walked out, " Rogers wrote his postg about the rights activists were up arms wh GLAAD llg on Man's management team to "vtigate the allegatns and should they prove te, we ll on him to remove the vlently anti-gay remarks om his show and send a strong msage that anti-gay vlence is not somethg to joke about, " acrdg to a has prevly land hot water for his material -- revealg rnchy tails of his sexual attractn to First Lady Michelle Obama on the "Lopez Tonight" show April and llg former Alaska ernor Sarah Pal "good masturbatn material" durg an rmal chat on a TNT broadst of a NBA game January. "30 Rock" star Tracy Man is unr some very ser fire this morng -- after reportedly spewg some disgtg homophobic "jok" durg a performance Nashville last week.
TRACY MAN’S ANTI-GAY RANT UPSETS TA FEY, CHRIS ROCK, MUCH OF WIR WORLD
Tracy Man's headle-grabbg Damage Control Tour ntu. Four days after the 30 Rock star apologized for unleashg an anti-gay rant durg a edy act, Man once aga exprsed ep regret for his choice of words an terview wh hip-hop mogul Rsell Simmons (via ). * tracy morgan gay rant *
Acrdg to reports, Man took the stage at the Ryman Audorium (pictured above) and went off about gays -- sayg, "Gays need to qu beg p**si and not be whg about somethg as signifint as bullyg. When talkg about the possibily of his son beg gay -- Tracy said he "better talk to me like a man and not a gay voice or I'll pull out a knife and stab that ltle n**ger to ath.
It's not the first time Man has igned ntroversy over homphobic material -- back 2009, a bunch of people reportedly walked out of his show at Carnegie Hall after he said beg gay was a "choice. The NBC edy mocked actor/edian Tracy Man, who found himself real-life hot water last June after makg anti-gay remarks durg a stand-up appearance Nashville, Tenn.
30 ROCK'S CHEYENNE JACKSON 'DISGTED AND APPALLED' BY TRACY MAN'S ANTI-GAY RANT
Tracy Man is sorry. At least that's what he's claimg this morng after was revealed that he went on an antigay rant durg a stand-up performance last Friday Nashville. * tracy morgan gay rant *
On the "30 Rock" episo, tled "Idts are People Too, " Tracy Jordan (the character Man plays) sparked a prott after makg a uple of ridiculo gay-oriented jok at a club date. A ntre Jordan mistakenly apologiz to the makers of Glad trash bags, rather than to the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, known as GLAAD. Fey, who is also the creator and an executive producer of "30 Rock, " issued a statement at the time clarg "I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as scere by his gay and lbian -workers at '30 Rock.
Mirrorg that real-life statement on Thursday's episo, Fey's character, Liz Lemon, chis Jordan by sayg, "Do you know how many of your hardworkg and dited -workers are gay? On June 3, at Nashville’s Ryman Audorium, Man, among other ments om his set, said he’d stab his son to ath if he talked to him “a gay voice.
” Afterward, at least one gay fan exprsed outrage onle, while the Ryman Audorium released a statement apologizg to anyone offend by Man’s remarks. Unrstandably, both the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn and the Human Rights Campaign both lled for an apology om Man, which he duly did. “The vlent imagery of Tracy’s rant was disturbg to me at a time when homophobic hate crim ntue to be a life-threateng issue for the GLBT muny, ” Fey said a statement to “It also don’t le up wh the Tracy Man I know, who is not a hateful man and is generally much too sleepy and self-centered to ever hurt another person.
TRACY MAN’S GAY RANT: NBC ISN’T HAPPY, BUT ’30 ROCK’ STAR STILL HAS A JOB (UPDATED)
Tracy Man’s 30 Rock star Cheyenne Jackson has joed a growg list of celebs nmng the edian for his anti-gay rant last week — durg which he said he’d “stab” his son if he turned out to be gay. In a strongly-word statement issued to Out, the openly-gay Jackson said, “I am disgted and appalled by Tracy Man’s homophobic rant. On Friday, Man’s 30 Rock boss and star, Ta Fey, released her own statement, sayg, “The vlent imagery of Tracy’s rant was disturbg to me at a time when homophobic hate crim ntue to be a life-threateng issue for the GLBT Communy.
TRACY MAN COM UNR FIRE FOR ANTI-GAY RANT, APOLOGIZ
NBC Chairman of Entertament Robert Greenblatt and "30 Rock" executive producer Ta Fey issued statements lamentg seri star Tracy Man's anti-gay remarks at a recent stand-up performance, which went viral after an attene posted them on Facebook.
TRACY MAN GO ON ANTI-GAY TIRA AT NASHVILLE SHOW
"I want to apologize to my fans and the gay & lbian muny for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act Nashville, " Man said a statement to the Huffgton Post. They appear to be far more extreme than the remark that got Isaiah Washgton, the last primetime star acced of such homophobic ments, fired om "Grey's Anatomy.
"At a time when bullyg and harassment of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youth is at an all-time high – when kids are beg asslted, are dyg – to joke about mtg vlence agast a child is outrageo and reprehensible, " Jody Huckaby, executive director of Parents, Fay and Friends of Lbians and Gays, said a statement Friday.
30 ROCK'S TRACY MAN DECLAR, 'IF I HAD A GAY SON I WOULD LOVE HIM'
Man needs to unrstand that his words have power; cg vlence agast gay and lbian kids the name of edy – statg that he would stab his own son to ath if he was gay – is absolutely unnscnable.
STARS NOUNCE TRACY MAN'S ANTI-GAY RANT
But that's jt not enough, " Fred Saz, the vice print of munitns for the natn's largt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr civil rights anizatn wrote. Man took upon himself to mentn about how he feels all this gay s— was crazy and that women are a gift om God and that 'Born this Way' is bulls—, gay is a choice, and the reason he knows this is exactly bee 'God don't make no mistak' (referrg to God not makg someone gay e that would be a mistake). Rogers add: "He mentned that gay was somethg kids learn om the media and programmg, and that bullied kids should jt bt some ass and beat those other ltle f—ers that bully them, not whe about .
He said if his son that was gay he better e home and talk to him like a man and not [he mimicked a gay, high pched voice] or he would pull out a knife and stab that ltle N (one word I refe to e) to ath. Rogers' closer: "Tracy then said he didn't fuckg re if he pissed off some gays, bee if they n take a f—g dick up their ass… they n take a f—g joke. 30 Rock 30 Rock actor Tracy Man has issued an apology to fans and the gay and lbian muny for an anti-gay rant durg his weekend gig at Nashville's Ryman Audorium that has land him hot water.
TRACY MAN APOLOGIZ TO KEV ROGERS, GAY COMMUNY FOR HOMOPHOBIC RANT
Acrdg to Rogers' acunt, Man rmed the dience "that the gays need to qu beg p—i and not be whg about somethg as signifint as bullyg" and that "if his son that was gay he better e home and talk to him like a man…or he would pull out a knife and stab that ltle [n—–] to ath. GLAAD released a statement today llg for Man's management to "vtigate the allegatns and should they prove te, we ll on him to remove the vlently anti-gay remarks om his show and send a strong msage that anti-gay vlence is not somethg to joke about.
TRACY MAN APOLOGIZ FOR GAY JOK, BUT IS IT ENOUGH?
UPDATE: GLAAD released a statement this afternoon askg Man to "meet wh fay members who have lost children to anti-gay vlence orr to help him unrstand exactly why his rant touched so ep a nerve.