Kev Hart Breaks Silence on Anti-Gay Tweet Controversy – The Hollywood Reporter

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• WHAT DID KEV HART SAY? COMEDIAN'S ANTI-GAY TWEETS UNEARTHED AFTER LANDG OSR GIG
• KEV HART SLAMMED FOR MENTS HE MA TO LIL NAS X ON RAPPER G OUT AS GAY
• KEV HART IS ‘DONE’ APOLOGIZG TO LGBT PEOPLE, ANOTHER W FOR UNAPOLOGETIC HOMOPHOBIAPOINTLESSIN ANOTHER BIZARRE TV APPEARANCE, KEV HART SAID HE WAS ‘DONE’ APOLOGIZG TO LGBT PEOPLE. THE NATURE OF HIS APOLOGIZG HAS BEEN AN OBJECT LSON HOW HOMOPHOBIA IS DISAVOWED.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JAN. 09, 2019 6:17PM EST / PUBLISHED JAN. 09, 2019 5:20PM EST OPNNBCTHE ACTOR KEV HART WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW THAT HE IS DONE APOLOGIZG FOR HIS HOMOPHOBIA, EVEN THOUGH HIS APOLOGI HAVE NOT AMOUNTED TO MUCH—NUMERILLY OR SUBSTANTIVELY— THE FIRST PLACE.LATER TONIGHT HE WILL APPEAR ON CBS’ LATE SHOW WH STEPHEN COLBERT, AND HOPEFULLY COLBERT WILL GRILL HIM MORE PROPERLY THAN OTHER HOSTS HAVE ON HIS VIEWS, PAST AND PRENT. IN YET ANOTHER BIZARRE TV APPEARANCE ON GOOD MORNG AMERI ON WEDNDAY, BEG TERVIEWED BY YET ANOTHER IEND (MICHAEL STRAHAN) RATHER THAN OBJECTIVE NON-CELEBRY-INTIFIED JOURNALIST, HART WAS GIVEN AMPLE OPPORTUNY TO NOT JT SAY SORRY BUT SOUND LIKE HE MEANT . GUS WHAT. HE DIDN’T. HE AGA SAID HE WOULD NOT BE HOSTG THE OSRS, AND, TA-DA, HART HAS A NEW PR MASTER PLAN: HE’S JT DONE WH THIS HOMOPHOBIA ACCATN AND APOLOGY THG, AND HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT. EVEN WHEN OFFERED THE CHANCE TO SAY SOMETHG TO LGBTQ YOUTH OR THEIR PARENTS, HART—WHOSE EGO IS CERTALY UNNTED BY RECENT EVENTS—CHOSE TO MAKE HIMSELF THE VICTIM, AS HE NSISTENTLY DO. OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS AND HIS GMA APPEARANCE, HART OFFERED A REVEALG STUDY HOW LGBT PEOPLE SO OFTEN EXPERIENCE HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA: IS SOMETHG ALL TOO OFTEN DISMISSED, RID; SOMETHG THAT IS THEIR PROBLEM, NOTHG TO SEE HERE.IF WE HAVE QUTNS ABOUT HART’S PAST HOMOPHOBIC ‘JOK’ (YOU KNOW, LIKE THE ONE ABOUT ASSLTG YOUR GAY KID), TWEETS, AND THE NATURE OF HIS APOLOGY, GUS WHAT: THAT’S ON . HIS CRICS ARE IMMEDIATELY RELEGATED TO HATERS, TROLLS. HE’S TOO BY. HE’S GOT OTHER STUFF TO BE GETTG ON WH. HART’S MEANOR DURG GMA WAS OF A CELEBRY KEEN TO PREVENT ANY FURTHER NEGATIVE PUBLICY, TO STIFLE QUTNS AND GASLIGHT THOSE HE TARGETED WH HIS LAME, DISGTG JOK THE FIRST PLACE, NOT SOMEBODY GENUELY REGRETFUL ABOUT WHAT THEY SAID THE PAST AND KEEN TO MAKE AN ACTIVE AMENDS. KEV HART, AS HE OCSNALLY REFERS TO HIMSELF, ISN’T TERTED ANY OF . KEV HART WANTS TO GET BACK TO MAKG MOVI AND MAKG LOTS OF MONEY.HART STILL CLAIMS TO HAVE APOLOGIZED YEARS AGO, WHICH HE DID NOT. HIS APOLOGY TOUR—BS-LIKE, RATHER THAN HEARTFELT—TLY BEGAN ON ELLEN DEGENER’ SHOW, THEN TWTER, AND THEN HIS PODST, WHERE HE SPOKE ABOUT HIMSELF THE THIRD PERSON, SAYG, “KEV HART APOLOGIZ FOR HIS REMARKS THAT HURT MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY.” “I’M UNCLEAR ABOUT WHAT HE’S LEARNED AFTER THIS MS, BUT SEEMS AT BT THAT HIS TAKE-HOME IS THAT HE SHOULD KEEP HIS HOMOPHOBIA QUIET, RATHER THAN VOICE ON STAGE OR ON TWTER” IN THIS FLURRY OF RECENT APOLOGIZG, NOTE THAT HART ISN’T THAT SORRY ABOUT WHAT HE SAID, NOR HAS HE SHOWN ANY UNRSTANDG OF WHY WHAT HE SAID WAS SO BAD. HE’S APOLOGIZG TO OTHERS IF THEY WERE UPSET BY . I’M UNCLEAR ABOUT WHAT HE’S LEARNED AFTER THIS MS, BUT SEEMS AT BT THAT HIS TAKE-HOME IS THAT HE SHOULD KEEP HIS HOMOPHOBIA QUIET, RATHER THAN VOICE ON STAGE OR ON TWTER. THAT’S NOT REALLY ALG WH YOUR PREJUDICE. NEHER IS MAKG YOUR PREJUDICE YOUR VICTIMS’ PROBLEM. REPEATG “I APOLOGIZE” SCREAMS A SPERATE CRISIS MANAGEMENT PLAN, THE VERY LEAST AND MOST DISGENUO THAT YOU N DO, RATHER THAN EMBRACG PERSONAL FLT AND RPONSIBILY. “IT’S NOT MY DREAM TO BE AN ALLY” OF LGBT PEOPLE, HE SAID ON HIS PODST RECENTLY. THAT’S THE CLEART AND MOST REVEALG THG HART HAS SAID THE LAST WEEK.HART HAD BEEN RPONDG TO CNN’S DON LEMON, WHO HAD CRICIZED HIM AN EXCELLENT TV ADDRS, THEN HAD AN EXTENSIVE NVERSATN WH HIM WHICH LEMON SPOKE ABOUT ON HIS JANUARY 7 SHOW. HART IS NOT A VICTIM, LEMON SAID, BUT HOLDG HART TO ACUNT THE LGBTQ MUNY SHOULDN’T BE “BULLI.” WHAT DO THAT MEAN? THAT WE SHOULD SOMEHOW MORE POLELY PARSE THE NONSENSE HART HAS SPOKEN THROUGHOUT THIS? BULLI HAVE POWER. HART AND THE HOLLYWOOD MACHE BEHD HIM HAS POWER. DEGENER HAS POWER. LEMON HAS POWER. THE ONLY POWER LGBTQ CRICS OF KEV HART HAVE IS ONE OF A LLECTIVE VOICE PRT AND ONLE, WHICH THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO EXERCISE. IF THOSE CRICS HADN’T ED THOSE VOIC THE FIRST PLACE, LEMON WOULDN’T HAVE VOTED TWO SEGMENTS OF HIS SHOW TO HART’S HOMOPHOBIA. THIS ISN'T BULLYG, BUT RATHER, AS LEMON SAID, HOLDG HART TO ACUNT.WHEN STRAHAN, WHO DID A HUGELY BETTER JOB OF PHG HART ON WHAT ON EARTH HE WAS TALKG ABOUT THAN DEGENER HAD, ASKED IF HE UNRSTOOD WHY PEOPLE WERE NOT BUYG HIS APOLOGY, HART SAID: “I SAY I’M DONE WH , GETS NO MORE ENERGY OM ME. THAT’S WHY I SAID [’S] THE LAST TIME I’M ADDRSG THIS, THERE’S NO MORE NVERSATN ABOUT . LERALLY, I’M OVER THAT. I’M OVER THE MOMENT. I’M ABOUT TODAY. SO, IF ’S ACCEPTED GREAT, IF ’S NOT THAT’S NOTHG I N NTROL. SOME THGS ARE LEFT OUT OF YOUR HANDS. I’M DONE WH . I’M OVER . THAT’S WHERE I PERSONALLY AM.”AND THAT IS WHY A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE NOT BUYG KEV HART’S APOLOGI, BEE THEY ARE TRANSPARENTLY UNFELT. THE WORD SALAD HE OFFERS NVEYS HIS IMPATIENCE TO GET BACK TO BEG ADORED BY HIS FANS AND EARNG LOTS OF MONEY.STRAHAN ASKED, IF HART’S VIEWS ON LGBTQ PEOPLE HAD EVOLVED, HOW HAD THEY EVOLVED.“I HAVE EXPLAED HOW,” SAID HART. “I EVOLVED WHICH MAK ME SAY [HE GRNED], I’M OVER .”SO, A TOTAL NON-EXPLANATN OF PERSONAL EVOLUTN. “I’M NOT SAYG HOW I CHANGED ANY MORE,” HART SAID. HE NEVER SAID HOW HE CHANGED THE FIRST PLACE. “I’M JT DONE. YOU HAVE TO E TO A POT WHERE YOU KNOW THAT YOU’VE GIVEN ALL YOU POSSIBLY N AND IF THAT’S RECEIVED, GREAT. WE’VE ACHIEVED SOMETHG. IF NOT, THERE’S NOTHG I N DO” “I’M NOT SAYG WHAT I’VE DONE AND WHAT THE NEW ME IS. I’M NOT GIVG NO MORE EXPLANATN OF WHO I AM. I’VE DONE , I’VE DONE SEVERAL TIM. I’VE TWEETED , TALKED ABOUT , WENT ON ELLEN, SAID ON MY RAD SHOW. I’M JT DONE. YOU HAVE TO E TO A POT WHERE YOU KNOW THAT YOU’VE GIVEN ALL YOU POSSIBLY N AND IF THAT’S RECEIVED, GREAT. WE’VE ACHIEVED SOMETHG. IF NOT, THERE’S NOTHG I N DO. SO, I DO THIS NOW.”HE SHGGED A ‘WHAT ELSE N I DO’ SHG AT STRAHAN, AND MUGGED HIS FACE. FOR HART, THIS IS ALL ABOUT HIM, NOT ABOUT ANYTHG HE SAID, OR HOMOPHOBIA, OR MAKG PROPER REPENSE. LATER WEDNDAY, HART TOLD ANDY COHEN ON COHEN'S SIRI XM SHOW THAT AGA HE WAS DONE APOLOGIZG, AND THAT HE HAD CHANGED HIS ATTU TEN YEARS AGO AFTER SEEG RPONS TO HIS HOMOPHOBIC JOK. HE SAID “WE WERE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE” WHEN ME TO EQUALY. “YOU N’T FAKE BEG A GOOD PERSON. EHER YOU ARE OR YOU AREN’T,” HART ADD. IT MAY BE TE THAT HART IS NOT HOMOPHOBIC NOW. BUT WHAT EXPLAS HIS NTUED RISTANCE TO ENGAGE WH HIS PAST WORDS AND WHAT EVOLUTN HE HAS GONE THROUGH?STRAHAN ASKED HART WHAT WOULD HE SAY TO A PARENT OF A GAY CHILD OR AN LGBTQ YOUNG PERSON. DID HE HAVE AN UNRSTANDG OF THIS? HERE, HART ULD HAVE SAID SOMETHG WARM AND DIRECT ABOUT ACCEPTANCE; THAT WAS THE GIFT OF A BALL STRAHAN WAS TRYG TO PLACE HIS PALMS.INSTEAD, HART SAID, “I HAVE AN UNRSTANDG. I’VE ADDRSED , AND I’VE SAID EVERYTHG I N POSSIBLY SAY. SO, I’M OVER .” THEN HE LGHED.“YOU WILL NOT HEAR ME SAY ANYTHG ELSE ABOUT ,” HE REPEATED. “I’VE DONE ALL THAT I N DO. SO, THAT WAS DONE THE HOPE THAT PEOPLE N HEAR AND UNRSTAND HOW HEARTFELT AND THENTIC WAS. IF YOU DIDN’T, THEN I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU OR DO. I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE LOOKG FOR. SO, I’M OVER .”HART DON’T SEEM TO GET THAT WHAT PEOPLE ARE “LOOKG FOR” IS A TRACE OF UNRSTANDG ABOUT WHY HIS PAST WORDS WERE SO BAD, AND IF AND HOW HE HAS CHANGED HIS ATTUS. NOTE: FOR HART, THIS IS ALL ABOUT HIM, AND HE IS THE VICTIM. EVEN STRAHAN—REMEMBER, A IEND—WAS DISBELIEVG AT HART’S EGOTISTIL BLUNRG, AND ASKED HIM TO CLARIFY . “HERE’S WHAT I’M TRYG TO SAY: I’M OVER ,” HART SAID. HE LGHED AGA. THERE WAS LGHTER OFF MERA. THERE WAS, CHILLGLY, NOTHG FUNNY ABOUT ANY OF .“I’M DONE WH . I’M TALKG ABOUT TODAY. I’M TALKG ABOUT ME TODAY AND THE ENERGY I HAVE AND WHAT I N DO ON A DAILY BASIS.”THAT STANDARD CELEBRY BLAH UALLY OM LIFE ACH, PRS, OR THERAPISTS, OR AN UNHOLY TRY OF ALL OF THE ABOVE. MOVE FORWARD, IS HART’S NEW MANTRA. “I PUT OUT GOOD ENERGY, I SPIRE, I MOTIVATE. I’M A GOOD PERSON. I LOVE THE LOVE. IF YOU DON’T SEE THAT, THEN THAT MEANS THAT ’S A PROBLEM WH YOU. IF YOU N’T REALIZE THAT, THEN THAT MEANS ’S YOU. I HAVE NOTHG ELSE TO PROVE OR DO. NOTHG ELSE.”AGA, KEV HART WANTS YOU TO KNOW: IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WH HIS HOMOPHOBIA, OR THE NATURE OF THE EMPTY APOLOGI, THEN ’S YOUR FLT.STRAHAN TRIED ONCE AGA TO HELP HART OUT, REPEATG HIS QUTN: WHAT WOULD HART’S MSAGE BE TO A PARENT OF AN LGBTQ CHILD, OR AN LGBTQ KID?“HERE’S WHAT YOU N SAY,” SAID HART, SUDNLY ASKG STRAHAN IF HE WAS A “MONSTER.”NO, SAID STRAHAN. “I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PROVE WHO I AM, I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PROVE THE LEVELS OF LOVE I AM PABLE OF GIVG” HART SAID WAS SAFE TO SAY STRAHAN HAD “GOOD ENERGY” AND WAS A LOVG PERSON. WHY WOULD HART ASSUME ANYTHG DIFFERENT? “WHY DO YOU HAVE TO PROVE THAT YOU’RE A LOVG DIVIDUAL? YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, PEOPLE CLOSE TO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PROVE THAT, YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE TO JTIFY THAT. THAT’S THE POSN I AM . I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PROVE WHO I AM, I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PROVE THE LEVELS OF LOVE I AM PABLE OF GIVG.“IF ANYBODY OUT THERE WANTS TO BELIEVE THAT KEV HART IS THAT MUCH OF A MONSTER, THAT HE WOULDN’T LOVE SOMEBODY BEE OF THEIR CHOICE LIFE, THEN ALL POWER TO ‘EM. YOU FEEL AND CHOOSE TO THK HOW YOU THK. I’M NOT ADDRSG . I’M NOT OVER-LIVERG AND OVER-PROVG MYSELF BEE NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, MAY STILL NOT BE RECEIVED. AND YOU’LL FD YOURSELF A POSN WHERE YOU GO, ‘WELL, WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT? YOU WANT BLOOD? YOU WANT MY ARMS?”AGA, HART SPOKE ABOUT HIMSELF THE THIRD PERSON, AND MA HIMSELF THE VICTIM. HE HAS MA HIS CRICS TO A MOB THAT WANTS TO HURT HIM. THEY ARE NOT. THEY ARE JT ASKG FOR AN EXPLANATN OF HIS WORDS AND BELIEFS.HART SAID HE HAD “TONS” OF GREAT ENERGY, AND AGA RRECTLY CLAIMED TO HAVE APOLOGIZED FOR HIS PAST WORDS BEFORE ELLEN. THE BACKLASH TO THAT TERVIEW SHOWED THE POOR-ME HART THAT “THERE IS NO ENDG TO . IF YOU KEEP FEEDG THIS ENERGY THEN ’S GOG TO GROW. YOU’RE NOT GETTG NO MORE OF MY ENERGY OM . I’M NOT GIVG NO MORE. SO, I’M NOT SHUTTG DOWN THE QUTNS… BUT I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW, I’M DONE WH . IT’S A CHOICE I’VE PERSONALLY MA TO SAY I’M NOT ADDRSG ANY MORE. THAT’S NOT OM AN ANGRY PLACE, JT OM PLACE OF: ’S NEVER GOG TO REALLY END. I’M DONE WH . SO IF PEOPLE CHOOSE TO NTUE TO LET GROW, THEN DO WHAT YOU’VE GOT TO DO.”THERE ARE SO MANY NTRADICTNS HERE. SHUTTG DOWN QUTNS ON THE TOPIC IS PRECISELY WHAT HART AND HIS REPRENTATIV HOPE TO DO, AS HE STAT THE SENTENC FOLLOWG THAT ABSURD NTENTN. THEY ARE SPERATE TO BE EE OF THE QUTNS. HOLLYWOOD HAS A FAMOLY SELECTIVE MEMORY. MAYBE THAT WILL WORK. WHAT WOULD WORK MORE EFFECTIVELY IS IF HART SIMPLY ANSWERED THE QUTNS ASKED OF HIM, AND QU PLOYG MASS OF VERBAL DRY ICE. HART EVEN JOKED WH STRAHAN AT HOW GOOD HE HAD BEEN DODGG HIS QUTNS. THIS IS JT A PR GAME TO HIM, NOTHG ELSE.NO, HE WOULD NOT BE HOSTG THE OSRS THIS YEAR, HART SAID. TIME HAD N OUT ON THAT PROSPECT. HE WAS TOO MUCH OF A PERFECTNIST, AND NEED TO MAKE SURE SUCH A SHOW WAS “A GREAT REPRENTATN OF ME AND MY TALENT.” “THE PUBLIC” HAD MA THIS A NVERSATN, AND HE HAD REMOVED HIMSELF OM THE NVERSATN, HART SAID. THE OSRS WERE NOT PART OF GOD’S PLAN, HE ADD. EVERYTHG WAS “PRE-TERMED” BY GOD. HE WASN’T “WORRIED,” “SHAKEN,” OR “UPSET,” AND WOULD “LEARN,” “TE,” AND “GROW” OM WHAT HAD HAPPENED. HOW EXACTLY, REMAS A MYSTERY, AND STRAHAN DIDN'T ASK.“I’M SO GOOD WH ME,” HART SAID TWICE. “THAT’S NOT A CKY STATEMENT.” Y, IS. “KEV HART, LIKE MANY A CELEBRY, IS ABOUT KEV HART. IF HE IS HONT ABOUT ANYTHG THE TERVIEWS HAS BEEN SHOWSG HIS VANY AND ALL-NSUMG SELF-TERT.” “THAT JT MEANS I’M HAPPY WH ME BEE I KNOW THE MAN THAT I NOW AM,” SAID HART. “THAT BEG SAID, I DON’T HAVE TO PROVE THAT TO ANYBODY. I’M THAT FORTABLE THAT UNRSTANDG OF MY… LEVEL OF MATURY. SO FOR THOSE THAT GET THAT, THANK GOD YOU DO, AND FOR THOSE THAT DON’T, HOPEFULLY YOU WILL THE FUTURE. AND IF YOU DON’T, I GUS WASN’T MEANT FOR TO HAVE A IENDLY RELATNSHIP. I GUS WE’RE NOT EACH OTHER’S LIV. IT’S NOT GOG TO SWAY ME EHER WAY. I DON’T GET OFF ON THE VERDICT OF OTHERS AND HOW THEY FEEL. I DON’T LIVE MY LIFE FOR OTHERS. I LIVE FOR ME AND ME. THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW ME, WHO LOVE ME, AND WHO KNOW MY HEART.”KEV HART, LIKE MANY A CELEBRY, IS ABOUT KEV HART. IF HE IS HONT ABOUT ANYTHG THE TERVIEWS HAS BEEN SHOWSG HIS VANY AND ALL-NSUMG SELF-TERT. NOTHG MT BE ALLOWED TO DIVERT HIM OM HIS BIG-SCREEN NQUERG MISSN. ANYTHG CRIL SAID ABOUT HIM IS TO BE DISMISSED. HIS CRICS ARE HIS ENEMI. HE WILL ONLY LISTEN TO THOSE WHO SUPPLY ADULATN AND AFFIRMATN. APOLOGIZG STANDS FOR WEAKNS AND DILUTN OF A RIGOROLY BUILT BRAND.AGA, HART BOASTED TO STRAHAN HE HAD DODGED HIS QUTNS. THIS TERVIEW WAS A GAME TO HART, THIS WHOLE NTROVERSY IS AN NVENIENCE HE WILL DULGE NO LONGER, BANKG ON HIS FANS’ SUPPORT AND HOLLYWOOD’S EYE ON WHATEVER MONEY HE GENERAT. (HE ME BACK LATER GMA TO SELL HIS NEW MOVIE.)“YOU DIDN’T SWERVE AT ALL,” SAID STRAHAN. YOU’RE GONNA WATCH THIS BACK AND REALIZE YOU DIDN’T SWERVE AT ALL.”IN A WAY STRAHAN IS RIGHT. KEV HART, AS HE LIK TO REFER TO HIMSELF, SHOWED HIMSELF FOR EXACTLY WHO HE IS. HOLLYWOOD MAY CHOOSE TO REWARD THAT PERSON. BUT Y, HIS CRICS WILL NTUE TO ASK THE QUTNS FOR AS LONG AS HE ACTS OFFEND FOR BEG ASKED THEM, STEAD OF MATURELY AND OPENLY ADDRSG THEM. (INTERVIEWERS AND OUTLETS, PLEASE, IF YOU ARE OFFERED A KEV HART TERVIEW WH A STIPULATN NOT TO ASK ABOUT THE NTROVERSY, TURN THE TERVIEW DOWN.) HART’S NIAL AND DISAVOWAL OF HOMOPHOBIA, PRSG AS HAS BEEN TO WATCH, IS ALSO AN ALL-TOO REFLECTIVE SYMBOL AS TO HOW WIR SOCIETY HAS HISTORILLY CHOSEN NOT TO NONT S OWN HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA. AND THAT IS WHY GENERATNS OF LGBT PEOPLE WILL NTUE TO PROTT UNTIL DO, SPE BEG ATTACKED FOR DOG SO.LGBT PEOPLE CRICIZG KEV HART DON’T E WH THE TENT OR SIRE TO STROY A REER AS HE SEEMS TO IMAGE. THEY E WH A SIMPLER QUTN: “DO YOU NOT GET THIS? DO YOU NOT UNRSTAND WHAT YOU’RE SAYG AND HOW DANGERO AND AWFUL IS?” THE TRATN IS HIS DISMISSIVENS. THE ANGER IS BEE OVER AND OVER AGA, LGBT PEOPLE HAVE EXPERIENCED HOMOPHOBIA, AND THE IMPACT OF HOMOPHOBIA, AND HOW WIR SOCIETY AROUND THEM CHOOS TO IGNORE , AND SOMETIM, THROUGH DISCRIMATORY LAWS AND STATUT (AND STUPID JOK ON TV), ACTIVELY EXACERBAT .KEV HART MAY BE OVER “.” LGBT PEOPLE ABSOLUTELY, SADLY, AREN’T. TIM TEEMAN
• KEV HART APOLOGIZED TO THE LGBTQ COMMUNY AGA OVER HIS ANTI-GAY TWEETS

WHAT DID KEV HART SAY? COMEDIAN'S ANTI-GAY TWEETS UNEARTHED AFTER LANDG OSR GIG

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KEV HART IS ‘DONE’ APOLOGIZG TO LGBT PEOPLE, ANOTHER W FOR UNAPOLOGETIC HOMOPHOBIAPOINTLESSIN ANOTHER BIZARRE TV APPEARANCE, KEV HART SAID HE WAS ‘DONE’ APOLOGIZG TO LGBT PEOPLE. THE NATURE OF HIS APOLOGIZG HAS BEEN AN OBJECT LSON HOW HOMOPHOBIA IS DISAVOWED.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JAN. 09, 2019 6:17PM EST / PUBLISHED JAN. 09, 2019 5:20PM EST OPNNBCTHE ACTOR KEV HART WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW THAT HE IS DONE APOLOGIZG FOR HIS HOMOPHOBIA, EVEN THOUGH HIS APOLOGI HAVE NOT AMOUNTED TO MUCH—NUMERILLY OR SUBSTANTIVELY— THE FIRST PLACE.LATER TONIGHT HE WILL APPEAR ON CBS’ LATE SHOW WH STEPHEN COLBERT, AND HOPEFULLY COLBERT WILL GRILL HIM MORE PROPERLY THAN OTHER HOSTS HAVE ON HIS VIEWS, PAST AND PRENT. IN YET ANOTHER BIZARRE TV APPEARANCE ON GOOD MORNG AMERI ON WEDNDAY, BEG TERVIEWED BY YET ANOTHER IEND (MICHAEL STRAHAN) RATHER THAN OBJECTIVE NON-CELEBRY-INTIFIED JOURNALIST, HART WAS GIVEN AMPLE OPPORTUNY TO NOT JT SAY SORRY BUT SOUND LIKE HE MEANT . GUS WHAT. HE DIDN’T. HE AGA SAID HE WOULD NOT BE HOSTG THE OSRS, AND, TA-DA, HART HAS A NEW PR MASTER PLAN: HE’S JT DONE WH THIS HOMOPHOBIA ACCATN AND APOLOGY THG, AND HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT. EVEN WHEN OFFERED THE CHANCE TO SAY SOMETHG TO LGBTQ YOUTH OR THEIR PARENTS, HART—WHOSE EGO IS CERTALY UNNTED BY RECENT EVENTS—CHOSE TO MAKE HIMSELF THE VICTIM, AS HE NSISTENTLY DO. OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS AND HIS GMA APPEARANCE, HART OFFERED A REVEALG STUDY HOW LGBT PEOPLE SO OFTEN EXPERIENCE HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA: IS SOMETHG ALL TOO OFTEN DISMISSED, RID; SOMETHG THAT IS THEIR PROBLEM, NOTHG TO SEE HERE.IF WE HAVE QUTNS ABOUT HART’S PAST HOMOPHOBIC ‘JOK’ (YOU KNOW, LIKE THE ONE ABOUT ASSLTG YOUR GAY KID), TWEETS, AND THE NATURE OF HIS APOLOGY, GUS WHAT: THAT’S ON . HIS CRICS ARE IMMEDIATELY RELEGATED TO HATERS, TROLLS. HE’S TOO BY. HE’S GOT OTHER STUFF TO BE GETTG ON WH. HART’S MEANOR DURG GMA WAS OF A CELEBRY KEEN TO PREVENT ANY FURTHER NEGATIVE PUBLICY, TO STIFLE QUTNS AND GASLIGHT THOSE HE TARGETED WH HIS LAME, DISGTG JOK THE FIRST PLACE, NOT SOMEBODY GENUELY REGRETFUL ABOUT WHAT THEY SAID THE PAST AND KEEN TO MAKE AN ACTIVE AMENDS. KEV HART, AS HE OCSNALLY REFERS TO HIMSELF, ISN’T TERTED ANY OF . KEV HART WANTS TO GET BACK TO MAKG MOVI AND MAKG LOTS OF MONEY.HART STILL CLAIMS TO HAVE APOLOGIZED YEARS AGO, WHICH HE DID NOT. HIS APOLOGY TOUR—BS-LIKE, RATHER THAN HEARTFELT—TLY BEGAN ON ELLEN DEGENER’ SHOW, THEN TWTER, AND THEN HIS PODST, WHERE HE SPOKE ABOUT HIMSELF THE THIRD PERSON, SAYG, “KEV HART APOLOGIZ FOR HIS REMARKS THAT HURT MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY.” “I’M UNCLEAR ABOUT WHAT HE’S LEARNED AFTER THIS MS, BUT SEEMS AT BT THAT HIS TAKE-HOME IS THAT HE SHOULD KEEP HIS HOMOPHOBIA QUIET, RATHER THAN VOICE ON STAGE OR ON TWTER” IN THIS FLURRY OF RECENT APOLOGIZG, NOTE THAT HART ISN’T THAT SORRY ABOUT WHAT HE SAID, NOR HAS HE SHOWN ANY UNRSTANDG OF WHY WHAT HE SAID WAS SO BAD. HE’S APOLOGIZG TO OTHERS IF THEY WERE UPSET BY . I’M UNCLEAR ABOUT WHAT HE’S LEARNED AFTER THIS MS, BUT SEEMS AT BT THAT HIS TAKE-HOME IS THAT HE SHOULD KEEP HIS HOMOPHOBIA QUIET, RATHER THAN VOICE ON STAGE OR ON TWTER. THAT’S NOT REALLY ALG WH YOUR PREJUDICE. NEHER IS MAKG YOUR PREJUDICE YOUR VICTIMS’ PROBLEM. REPEATG “I APOLOGIZE” SCREAMS A SPERATE CRISIS MANAGEMENT PLAN, THE VERY LEAST AND MOST DISGENUO THAT YOU N DO, RATHER THAN EMBRACG PERSONAL FLT AND RPONSIBILY. “IT’S NOT MY DREAM TO BE AN ALLY” OF LGBT PEOPLE, HE SAID ON HIS PODST RECENTLY. THAT’S THE CLEART AND MOST REVEALG THG HART HAS SAID THE LAST WEEK.HART HAD BEEN RPONDG TO CNN’S DON LEMON, WHO HAD CRICIZED HIM AN EXCELLENT TV ADDRS, THEN HAD AN EXTENSIVE NVERSATN WH HIM WHICH LEMON SPOKE ABOUT ON HIS JANUARY 7 SHOW. HART IS NOT A VICTIM, LEMON SAID, BUT HOLDG HART TO ACUNT THE LGBTQ MUNY SHOULDN’T BE “BULLI.” WHAT DO THAT MEAN? THAT WE SHOULD SOMEHOW MORE POLELY PARSE THE NONSENSE HART HAS SPOKEN THROUGHOUT THIS? BULLI HAVE POWER. HART AND THE HOLLYWOOD MACHE BEHD HIM HAS POWER. DEGENER HAS POWER. LEMON HAS POWER. THE ONLY POWER LGBTQ CRICS OF KEV HART HAVE IS ONE OF A LLECTIVE VOICE PRT AND ONLE, WHICH THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO EXERCISE. IF THOSE CRICS HADN’T ED THOSE VOIC THE FIRST PLACE, LEMON WOULDN’T HAVE VOTED TWO SEGMENTS OF HIS SHOW TO HART’S HOMOPHOBIA. THIS ISN'T BULLYG, BUT RATHER, AS LEMON SAID, HOLDG HART TO ACUNT.WHEN STRAHAN, WHO DID A HUGELY BETTER JOB OF PHG HART ON WHAT ON EARTH HE WAS TALKG ABOUT THAN DEGENER HAD, ASKED IF HE UNRSTOOD WHY PEOPLE WERE NOT BUYG HIS APOLOGY, HART SAID: “I SAY I’M DONE WH , GETS NO MORE ENERGY OM ME. THAT’S WHY I SAID [’S] THE LAST TIME I’M ADDRSG THIS, THERE’S NO MORE NVERSATN ABOUT . LERALLY, I’M OVER THAT. I’M OVER THE MOMENT. I’M ABOUT TODAY. SO, IF ’S ACCEPTED GREAT, IF ’S NOT THAT’S NOTHG I N NTROL. SOME THGS ARE LEFT OUT OF YOUR HANDS. I’M DONE WH . I’M OVER . THAT’S WHERE I PERSONALLY AM.”AND THAT IS WHY A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE NOT BUYG KEV HART’S APOLOGI, BEE THEY ARE TRANSPARENTLY UNFELT. THE WORD SALAD HE OFFERS NVEYS HIS IMPATIENCE TO GET BACK TO BEG ADORED BY HIS FANS AND EARNG LOTS OF MONEY.STRAHAN ASKED, IF HART’S VIEWS ON LGBTQ PEOPLE HAD EVOLVED, HOW HAD THEY EVOLVED.“I HAVE EXPLAED HOW,” SAID HART. “I EVOLVED WHICH MAK ME SAY [HE GRNED], I’M OVER .”SO, A TOTAL NON-EXPLANATN OF PERSONAL EVOLUTN. “I’M NOT SAYG HOW I CHANGED ANY MORE,” HART SAID. HE NEVER SAID HOW HE CHANGED THE FIRST PLACE. “I’M JT DONE. YOU HAVE TO E TO A POT WHERE YOU KNOW THAT YOU’VE GIVEN ALL YOU POSSIBLY N AND IF THAT’S RECEIVED, GREAT. WE’VE ACHIEVED SOMETHG. IF NOT, THERE’S NOTHG I N DO” “I’M NOT SAYG WHAT I’VE DONE AND WHAT THE NEW ME IS. I’M NOT GIVG NO MORE EXPLANATN OF WHO I AM. I’VE DONE , I’VE DONE SEVERAL TIM. I’VE TWEETED , TALKED ABOUT , WENT ON ELLEN, SAID ON MY RAD SHOW. I’M JT DONE. YOU HAVE TO E TO A POT WHERE YOU KNOW THAT YOU’VE GIVEN ALL YOU POSSIBLY N AND IF THAT’S RECEIVED, GREAT. WE’VE ACHIEVED SOMETHG. IF NOT, THERE’S NOTHG I N DO. SO, I DO THIS NOW.”HE SHGGED A ‘WHAT ELSE N I DO’ SHG AT STRAHAN, AND MUGGED HIS FACE. FOR HART, THIS IS ALL ABOUT HIM, NOT ABOUT ANYTHG HE SAID, OR HOMOPHOBIA, OR MAKG PROPER REPENSE. LATER WEDNDAY, HART TOLD ANDY COHEN ON COHEN'S SIRI XM SHOW THAT AGA HE WAS DONE APOLOGIZG, AND THAT HE HAD CHANGED HIS ATTU TEN YEARS AGO AFTER SEEG RPONS TO HIS HOMOPHOBIC JOK. HE SAID “WE WERE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE” WHEN ME TO EQUALY. “YOU N’T FAKE BEG A GOOD PERSON. EHER YOU ARE OR YOU AREN’T,” HART ADD. IT MAY BE TE THAT HART IS NOT HOMOPHOBIC NOW. BUT WHAT EXPLAS HIS NTUED RISTANCE TO ENGAGE WH HIS PAST WORDS AND WHAT EVOLUTN HE HAS GONE THROUGH?STRAHAN ASKED HART WHAT WOULD HE SAY TO A PARENT OF A GAY CHILD OR AN LGBTQ YOUNG PERSON. DID HE HAVE AN UNRSTANDG OF THIS? HERE, HART ULD HAVE SAID SOMETHG WARM AND DIRECT ABOUT ACCEPTANCE; THAT WAS THE GIFT OF A BALL STRAHAN WAS TRYG TO PLACE HIS PALMS.INSTEAD, HART SAID, “I HAVE AN UNRSTANDG. I’VE ADDRSED , AND I’VE SAID EVERYTHG I N POSSIBLY SAY. SO, I’M OVER .” THEN HE LGHED.“YOU WILL NOT HEAR ME SAY ANYTHG ELSE ABOUT ,” HE REPEATED. “I’VE DONE ALL THAT I N DO. SO, THAT WAS DONE THE HOPE THAT PEOPLE N HEAR AND UNRSTAND HOW HEARTFELT AND THENTIC WAS. IF YOU DIDN’T, THEN I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU OR DO. I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE LOOKG FOR. SO, I’M OVER .”HART DON’T SEEM TO GET THAT WHAT PEOPLE ARE “LOOKG FOR” IS A TRACE OF UNRSTANDG ABOUT WHY HIS PAST WORDS WERE SO BAD, AND IF AND HOW HE HAS CHANGED HIS ATTUS. NOTE: FOR HART, THIS IS ALL ABOUT HIM, AND HE IS THE VICTIM. EVEN STRAHAN—REMEMBER, A IEND—WAS DISBELIEVG AT HART’S EGOTISTIL BLUNRG, AND ASKED HIM TO CLARIFY . “HERE’S WHAT I’M TRYG TO SAY: I’M OVER ,” HART SAID. HE LGHED AGA. THERE WAS LGHTER OFF MERA. THERE WAS, CHILLGLY, NOTHG FUNNY ABOUT ANY OF .“I’M DONE WH . I’M TALKG ABOUT TODAY. I’M TALKG ABOUT ME TODAY AND THE ENERGY I HAVE AND WHAT I N DO ON A DAILY BASIS.”THAT STANDARD CELEBRY BLAH UALLY OM LIFE ACH, PRS, OR THERAPISTS, OR AN UNHOLY TRY OF ALL OF THE ABOVE. MOVE FORWARD, IS HART’S NEW MANTRA. “I PUT OUT GOOD ENERGY, I SPIRE, I MOTIVATE. I’M A GOOD PERSON. I LOVE THE LOVE. IF YOU DON’T SEE THAT, THEN THAT MEANS THAT ’S A PROBLEM WH YOU. IF YOU N’T REALIZE THAT, THEN THAT MEANS ’S YOU. I HAVE NOTHG ELSE TO PROVE OR DO. NOTHG ELSE.”AGA, KEV HART WANTS YOU TO KNOW: IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WH HIS HOMOPHOBIA, OR THE NATURE OF THE EMPTY APOLOGI, THEN ’S YOUR FLT.STRAHAN TRIED ONCE AGA TO HELP HART OUT, REPEATG HIS QUTN: WHAT WOULD HART’S MSAGE BE TO A PARENT OF AN LGBTQ CHILD, OR AN LGBTQ KID?“HERE’S WHAT YOU N SAY,” SAID HART, SUDNLY ASKG STRAHAN IF HE WAS A “MONSTER.”NO, SAID STRAHAN. “I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PROVE WHO I AM, I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PROVE THE LEVELS OF LOVE I AM PABLE OF GIVG” HART SAID WAS SAFE TO SAY STRAHAN HAD “GOOD ENERGY” AND WAS A LOVG PERSON. WHY WOULD HART ASSUME ANYTHG DIFFERENT? “WHY DO YOU HAVE TO PROVE THAT YOU’RE A LOVG DIVIDUAL? YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, PEOPLE CLOSE TO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PROVE THAT, YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE TO JTIFY THAT. THAT’S THE POSN I AM . I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PROVE WHO I AM, I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PROVE THE LEVELS OF LOVE I AM PABLE OF GIVG.“IF ANYBODY OUT THERE WANTS TO BELIEVE THAT KEV HART IS THAT MUCH OF A MONSTER, THAT HE WOULDN’T LOVE SOMEBODY BEE OF THEIR CHOICE LIFE, THEN ALL POWER TO ‘EM. YOU FEEL AND CHOOSE TO THK HOW YOU THK. I’M NOT ADDRSG . I’M NOT OVER-LIVERG AND OVER-PROVG MYSELF BEE NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, MAY STILL NOT BE RECEIVED. AND YOU’LL FD YOURSELF A POSN WHERE YOU GO, ‘WELL, WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT? YOU WANT BLOOD? YOU WANT MY ARMS?”AGA, HART SPOKE ABOUT HIMSELF THE THIRD PERSON, AND MA HIMSELF THE VICTIM. HE HAS MA HIS CRICS TO A MOB THAT WANTS TO HURT HIM. THEY ARE NOT. THEY ARE JT ASKG FOR AN EXPLANATN OF HIS WORDS AND BELIEFS.HART SAID HE HAD “TONS” OF GREAT ENERGY, AND AGA RRECTLY CLAIMED TO HAVE APOLOGIZED FOR HIS PAST WORDS BEFORE ELLEN. THE BACKLASH TO THAT TERVIEW SHOWED THE POOR-ME HART THAT “THERE IS NO ENDG TO . IF YOU KEEP FEEDG THIS ENERGY THEN ’S GOG TO GROW. YOU’RE NOT GETTG NO MORE OF MY ENERGY OM . I’M NOT GIVG NO MORE. SO, I’M NOT SHUTTG DOWN THE QUTNS… BUT I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW, I’M DONE WH . IT’S A CHOICE I’VE PERSONALLY MA TO SAY I’M NOT ADDRSG ANY MORE. THAT’S NOT OM AN ANGRY PLACE, JT OM PLACE OF: ’S NEVER GOG TO REALLY END. I’M DONE WH . SO IF PEOPLE CHOOSE TO NTUE TO LET GROW, THEN DO WHAT YOU’VE GOT TO DO.”THERE ARE SO MANY NTRADICTNS HERE. SHUTTG DOWN QUTNS ON THE TOPIC IS PRECISELY WHAT HART AND HIS REPRENTATIV HOPE TO DO, AS HE STAT THE SENTENC FOLLOWG THAT ABSURD NTENTN. THEY ARE SPERATE TO BE EE OF THE QUTNS. HOLLYWOOD HAS A FAMOLY SELECTIVE MEMORY. MAYBE THAT WILL WORK. WHAT WOULD WORK MORE EFFECTIVELY IS IF HART SIMPLY ANSWERED THE QUTNS ASKED OF HIM, AND QU PLOYG MASS OF VERBAL DRY ICE. HART EVEN JOKED WH STRAHAN AT HOW GOOD HE HAD BEEN DODGG HIS QUTNS. THIS IS JT A PR GAME TO HIM, NOTHG ELSE.NO, HE WOULD NOT BE HOSTG THE OSRS THIS YEAR, HART SAID. TIME HAD N OUT ON THAT PROSPECT. HE WAS TOO MUCH OF A PERFECTNIST, AND NEED TO MAKE SURE SUCH A SHOW WAS “A GREAT REPRENTATN OF ME AND MY TALENT.” “THE PUBLIC” HAD MA THIS A NVERSATN, AND HE HAD REMOVED HIMSELF OM THE NVERSATN, HART SAID. THE OSRS WERE NOT PART OF GOD’S PLAN, HE ADD. EVERYTHG WAS “PRE-TERMED” BY GOD. HE WASN’T “WORRIED,” “SHAKEN,” OR “UPSET,” AND WOULD “LEARN,” “TE,” AND “GROW” OM WHAT HAD HAPPENED. HOW EXACTLY, REMAS A MYSTERY, AND STRAHAN DIDN'T ASK.“I’M SO GOOD WH ME,” HART SAID TWICE. “THAT’S NOT A CKY STATEMENT.” Y, IS. “KEV HART, LIKE MANY A CELEBRY, IS ABOUT KEV HART. IF HE IS HONT ABOUT ANYTHG THE TERVIEWS HAS BEEN SHOWSG HIS VANY AND ALL-NSUMG SELF-TERT.” “THAT JT MEANS I’M HAPPY WH ME BEE I KNOW THE MAN THAT I NOW AM,” SAID HART. “THAT BEG SAID, I DON’T HAVE TO PROVE THAT TO ANYBODY. I’M THAT FORTABLE THAT UNRSTANDG OF MY… LEVEL OF MATURY. SO FOR THOSE THAT GET THAT, THANK GOD YOU DO, AND FOR THOSE THAT DON’T, HOPEFULLY YOU WILL THE FUTURE. AND IF YOU DON’T, I GUS WASN’T MEANT FOR TO HAVE A IENDLY RELATNSHIP. I GUS WE’RE NOT EACH OTHER’S LIV. IT’S NOT GOG TO SWAY ME EHER WAY. I DON’T GET OFF ON THE VERDICT OF OTHERS AND HOW THEY FEEL. I DON’T LIVE MY LIFE FOR OTHERS. I LIVE FOR ME AND ME. THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW ME, WHO LOVE ME, AND WHO KNOW MY HEART.”KEV HART, LIKE MANY A CELEBRY, IS ABOUT KEV HART. IF HE IS HONT ABOUT ANYTHG THE TERVIEWS HAS BEEN SHOWSG HIS VANY AND ALL-NSUMG SELF-TERT. NOTHG MT BE ALLOWED TO DIVERT HIM OM HIS BIG-SCREEN NQUERG MISSN. ANYTHG CRIL SAID ABOUT HIM IS TO BE DISMISSED. HIS CRICS ARE HIS ENEMI. HE WILL ONLY LISTEN TO THOSE WHO SUPPLY ADULATN AND AFFIRMATN. APOLOGIZG STANDS FOR WEAKNS AND DILUTN OF A RIGOROLY BUILT BRAND.AGA, HART BOASTED TO STRAHAN HE HAD DODGED HIS QUTNS. THIS TERVIEW WAS A GAME TO HART, THIS WHOLE NTROVERSY IS AN NVENIENCE HE WILL DULGE NO LONGER, BANKG ON HIS FANS’ SUPPORT AND HOLLYWOOD’S EYE ON WHATEVER MONEY HE GENERAT. (HE ME BACK LATER GMA TO SELL HIS NEW MOVIE.)“YOU DIDN’T SWERVE AT ALL,” SAID STRAHAN. YOU’RE GONNA WATCH THIS BACK AND REALIZE YOU DIDN’T SWERVE AT ALL.”IN A WAY STRAHAN IS RIGHT. KEV HART, AS HE LIK TO REFER TO HIMSELF, SHOWED HIMSELF FOR EXACTLY WHO HE IS. HOLLYWOOD MAY CHOOSE TO REWARD THAT PERSON. BUT Y, HIS CRICS WILL NTUE TO ASK THE QUTNS FOR AS LONG AS HE ACTS OFFEND FOR BEG ASKED THEM, STEAD OF MATURELY AND OPENLY ADDRSG THEM. (INTERVIEWERS AND OUTLETS, PLEASE, IF YOU ARE OFFERED A KEV HART TERVIEW WH A STIPULATN NOT TO ASK ABOUT THE NTROVERSY, TURN THE TERVIEW DOWN.) HART’S NIAL AND DISAVOWAL OF HOMOPHOBIA, PRSG AS HAS BEEN TO WATCH, IS ALSO AN ALL-TOO REFLECTIVE SYMBOL AS TO HOW WIR SOCIETY HAS HISTORILLY CHOSEN NOT TO NONT S OWN HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA. AND THAT IS WHY GENERATNS OF LGBT PEOPLE WILL NTUE TO PROTT UNTIL DO, SPE BEG ATTACKED FOR DOG SO.LGBT PEOPLE CRICIZG KEV HART DON’T E WH THE TENT OR SIRE TO STROY A REER AS HE SEEMS TO IMAGE. THEY E WH A SIMPLER QUTN: “DO YOU NOT GET THIS? DO YOU NOT UNRSTAND WHAT YOU’RE SAYG AND HOW DANGERO AND AWFUL IS?” THE TRATN IS HIS DISMISSIVENS. THE ANGER IS BEE OVER AND OVER AGA, LGBT PEOPLE HAVE EXPERIENCED HOMOPHOBIA, AND THE IMPACT OF HOMOPHOBIA, AND HOW WIR SOCIETY AROUND THEM CHOOS TO IGNORE , AND SOMETIM, THROUGH DISCRIMATORY LAWS AND STATUT (AND STUPID JOK ON TV), ACTIVELY EXACERBAT .KEV HART MAY BE OVER “.” LGBT PEOPLE ABSOLUTELY, SADLY, AREN’T. TIM TEEMAN

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