What Happened To Michelle Shocked? Sger's Profane Anti-Gay Rant Stuns Crowd

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

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

” 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.

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

“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.