Gay Fridift

The Huffington Post reported on Monday that singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked recently went off on a homophobic rant to her San Fraciscan audience during a concert. The original article from SFist reported her saying: "I live in fear," she said, "that the world will be destroyed if gays are allowed to marry."

Someone just lost their Lilith Fair privileges

Listen, what Shocked said was abhorrent, but I mean, you gotta give her credit. I mean shit, SAN FRANCISCO? You might as well have Adam Lambert performing "for your entertainment" at the annual NRA board meeting.

Thinking back on when he was relevant

I think we can say with relative certainty that Shocked's Provincetown performance has been postponed.

Here's what actually bothered me about this article: the writer leads us through Shocked's backstory, all about how she's a "former" lesbian turned evangelical, obviously to make the reader (presumably liberal, pro-LGBT) disgusted with her words and simultaneously self-congratulating for being one of the "enlightened" who can label hate when they see it. Then, at the bottom of the page, this deftly placed slideshow:

This is what blows my mind. Here we have an article that functions as a reinforcement to opposing homophobia, and an INCH below it we have a slide show perpetuating our fascination with famous people being gay. Am I missing something here?

This HPost writer should put out an article denouncing growing worldwide Islamaphobia with links to the next Homeland episode just to complete the cycle of eating his own shit. Unreal.