Contents:
- BRET EASTON ELLIS ATTACKS 'GATEKEEPERS OF POLILLY RRECT GAYNS'
- BRET EASTON ELLIS: THE YEAR THE OSRS FALLY GOT GAY RIGHT (GUT COLUMN)
- BRET EASTON ELLIS'S TWEETS PROVOKE 'BAN' OM GAY MEDIA AWARDS
BRET EASTON ELLIS ATTACKS 'GATEKEEPERS OF POLILLY RRECT GAYNS'
Bret Easton Ellis, the novelist who turned beg a bad boy to a lerary form, has now ployed his nsirable powers of vective to attack what he lls the "gatekeepers of polilly rrect gayns" a lengthy diatribe Out magaze Ellis begs by bemoang the way that the recent g out of basketball star Jason Colls was handled by the media. Colls was treated, the novelist says, like a "kd of baby panda who need to be honored and praised and nsoled and – y – fantilized" rerv particular ire for the gay mpaigners he acc of imposg a sanized and sanctified visn of homosexualy upon the plited liv of ordary gay people.
BRET EASTON ELLIS: THE YEAR THE OSRS FALLY GOT GAY RIGHT (GUT COLUMN)
"Beg 'real' and 'human' (ie flawed) is not necsarily what The Gay Gatekeepers want straight culture to see. " The group also bridled at a tweet which he qutned whether the openly gay actor Matt Bomer was well st to play the role of the straight Christian Grey the film versn of Fifty Shas of lnchg to a cricism of Glaad bee he was unved om s party opens Ellis up to the accatn of sour grap. But he argu his Out piece that Glaad's censorial attu was symptomatic of a wir malaise wh some gay muny activists – what he lls "the gay lie".
BRET EASTON ELLIS'S TWEETS PROVOKE 'BAN' OM GAY MEDIA AWARDS
"An anizatn holdg an awards ceremony that they thk reprents all gays and also feels that they n choose which gays n and nnot be a member of the party is, on the fact of , ridiculo. The fact remas that if you aren't prentg yourself as a happy homosexual promotg healthy mastream gay valu and pimpg for Glaad, then you're somehow famg The Cse, " he 's Rich Ferraro, asked for a rponse to Ellis's attack, said: "Given the c remarks he's ma about the gay muny and people livg wh HIV/Aids, this publicy stunt is not surprisg. Glaad asked for a time to s down wh Bret and planned to ve other lears the gay muny as well as the HIV/Aids muny.