Alec Baldw Talks About His Gay Kiss wh Rsell Brand at 'Rock of Ag' Premiere

Contents:

• ‘SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’: ALEC BALDW SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN MANY GAY MALE CAST MEMBERS — THEY JT WEREN’T OUT
• ALEC BALDW TALKS ABOUT HIS GAY KISS WH RSELL BRAND AT 'ROCK OF AG' PREMIERE
• ALEC BALDW APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR
• THE LGBTQ COMMUNY'S RPONSE TO ALEC BALDW'S ANTI-GAY SLURS: A RACE-BASED DOUBLE STANDARD?
• ALEC'S GAY ROLE
• ALEC BALDW TALKS ABOUT HIS GAY KISS WH RSELL BRAND AT ‘ROCK OF AG’ PREMIERE

‘SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’: ALEC BALDW SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN MANY GAY MALE CAST MEMBERS — THEY JT WEREN’T OUT

His late night talk show "Up Late wh Alec Baldw" was axed 2013 after he apologised for ments that a gay rights group scribed as actor has had n-s wh the law too.

The heated discsn surroundg “Saturday Night Live” and s cln (or lack thereof) of gay st members rag on, bee — of urse — Alec Baldw is Tweetg. After edian Jam Adomian spoke to The Daily Beast regardg his belief that “Saturday Night Live” has an issue when to stg out gay men, “SNL’s” current signated Tmp impersonator tweeted a lk to the article wh the snarky ment, “My dream is to, one day, be as gifted, as brave, as all-knowg as @jamadomian. Well, Alec, n you intify a gay man he did hire?

Branum also asked Baldw if he uld intify an openly gay man that Lorne Michaels has hired (beyond the prevly noted Terry Sweeney — who wasn’t hired by Michaels — and John Milhiser), to which Baldw replied that he uld, but…. The fact that gay men get st on SNL when they stay closeted and play ball don’t make the show clive. But please say “Hi” to your secret gay iends for me!

ALEC BALDW TALKS ABOUT HIS GAY KISS WH RSELL BRAND AT 'ROCK OF AG' PREMIERE

Currently, the arguable star of “Saturday Night Live” is the openly gay Kate McKnon, but she’s the only LGBTQ member of the st at this pot. Warner Bros and New Le brought back the 1980s to Hollywood, throwg a rare Friday night premiere for Rock of Ag that saw Me De ins Poison and Def Leppard h a stage at the Cise steals the movie and stole a lot of the attentn on the Boulevard, but one scene that may get tongu waggg, pecially the current climate where gays rights are beg fought over by lawmakers, volv Alec Baldw and Rsell Brand ('s the stage mil, so 's not a spoiler), whose characters reveal their love to each other via the REO Speedwagon song "Can’t Fight This Feelg, " pped wh a passnate the after-party, between the rock acts, Baldw played down the signifince of the kiss sequence, scribg as done for edy and surprise. ”He add that he has spent a lot of time Europe, which seems more relaxed about gay issu.

"For director Adam Shankman, the movie is ultimately about upl fdg love, not a statement about gay marraige. Not only did he give very emotnal ttimony agast an acced stalker, but he also raised the ire of GLAAD after g an anti-gay slur he didn’t realize was one.

ALEC BALDW APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR

Baldw n’t lend his support for equaly on paper, while gradg gay people practice, ” GLADD tweeted.

Baldw listens to the lls om so many LGBT people and alli to end this pattern of anti-gay slurs. “Anti-gay slurs are wrong, ” he said. I’m grateful to all of the ppl I meet + hear om who regnize that I would never say somethg to offend my iends the gay muny.

He also said “1-Rich Ferraro om @glaad rms me that c’sucker is an anti-gay ephet. On Friday TMZ featured vio of Baldw askg his male hairdrser if he thought he was a homophobe, to which the stylist jokgly rpond, “Y.

THE LGBTQ COMMUNY'S RPONSE TO ALEC BALDW'S ANTI-GAY SLURS: A RACE-BASED DOUBLE STANDARD?

RtersRpondg to Andrew Sullivan's argument, and my own, that Alec Baldw is— fact—kd of a bigot, W Alwan offers the followg fense:For llg a photographer a “cksuckg fag” a blowup ught on vio, and another journalist a “fuckg ltle bch” and “toxic queen” on twter, Baldw has been roundly nmned as a “bigot” and “homophobe, ” spe the fact that he has been a vol supporter of gay rights.... The third is that people’s darkt and most irratnal thoughts and feelgs tmp their nsired beliefs: Baldw n’t possibly really believe gay rights, acrdg to Coat, if he has any negative feelgs about homosexualy whatsoever. We refe to allow ourselv to image that a sgle human beg might have a whole host of nflicted thoughts and feelgs about homosexualy: that they might be both attracted to and repelled by ....

It is jt as ludicro to nmn people for beg aaid of or repulsed by homosexualy as is to nmn them for havg vlent impuls.

Frd thought that homophobia and same sex attractn (which is not the same thg as homosexualy per se) were universal and mutually implitg (a man, for stance, might be both repelled by and fascated by homosexualy bee he associat wh the both terrifyg and thrillg prospect of submtg and beg perated). The bigot who gets on TV to tell you that homosexualy ought to be agast the law do not belong the same tegory as a vol advote of gay rights who has not purified himself entirely of negative feelgs about homosexualy.

ALEC'S GAY ROLE

Homophobic feelgs are no more of a choice than homosexualy I offer a rebuttal, I thk 's important that we take an acunt of the years ago, Baldw—hound by paparazzi—Baldw reacted as followsIt seems Alec fally had enough... A few months ago, offend by somethg a reporter—who is gay—had wrten, Baldw said the followg:Gee Stark, you lyg ltle bch. " He also add that he was unaware that "ck-sucker" was a rogatory term for gay men.

Baldw offered the followg mentary on his ncellatn:But you've got the fundamentalist wg of gay advocy—Rich Ferraro and Andrew Sullivan—they're out there, they've got you. Baldw didn't blame his own repeated e of anti-gay—dare I say bigoted—slurs. He blamed "the fundamentalist wg of gay advocy.

ALEC BALDW TALKS ABOUT HIS GAY KISS WH RSELL BRAND AT ‘ROCK OF AG’ PREMIERE

I don't thk if Jse Jackson, or Al Sharpton, shared Baldw's rerd of threateng actual gay men, and threateng people perd wh anti-gay slurs, that this would be a bate. If you are gay your father or mother uld be a "homophobic bigot, " but you might well love him all the same. Ten years later, Longstreet was leadg black soldiers a urageo, if doomed, mpaign agast whe terrorists if we are hont wh ourselv, as the print would say, we know this isn't theoretil, bee we know most tellg—and bizarre—portn of Alwan's say is the ia that "homophobic feelgs are no more of a choice than homosexualy self.