I Didn't Say It

Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker-For-Now, saying he stands behind George Santos because he’s just a liar, but might change his mind if Santos is proven a criminal:

“No. You know why I’m standing by him? Because his constituents voted for him. I do not have the power simply because if I disagree with somebody or what they have said that I remove them from elected office. If for some way when we go through Ethics that he has broken the law, then we will remove him, but it’s not my role. I believe in the rule of law. A person’s innocent until proven guilty.”

I was stunned that McCarthy wasn’t struck by lightning when he said he believes in the rule of law and innocent until proven guilty since he’s the same guy who never wanted to investigate Thing 45’s role on January 6.

His role in history has been written and it’s lying and complicit and traitorous and his own party is slowly turning against him; read on …

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Victoria Spartz, Indiana GOP Representative, says she’ll oppose Speaker Kevin McCarthy's efforts to keep a handful of Democrats off key House committees:

“As I spoke against it on the House floor two years ago, I will not support this charade again. Speaker McCarthy needs to stop 'bread and circuses' in Congress and start governing for a change. Two wrongs do not make a right. Speaker Pelosi took unprecedented actions last Congress to remove Representatives Greene and Gosar from their committees without proper due process. Speaker McCarthy is taking unprecedented actions this Congress to deny some committee assignments to the Minority without proper due process again.”

Spartz's statement is in response to McCarthy's intention to remove Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee and keep Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell off the House Intelligence Committee.

Given the GOP’s slim majority, every vote is important and now Nancy Mace, South Carolina’s GOP Representative, has said she would also vote against booting Democrats like Omar from committees.

Trouble is, Kevin is a butthurt bitch and seeks revenge.

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Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary, blasting GOP Governor Ron DeSantis for banning public schools from teaching AP African American history:

“It is incomprehensible to see that this is what this ban–or this block, to be more specific–that DeSantis has put forward. If you think about the study of Black Americans, that is what he wants to block and, again, these types of actions aren’t new, especially from what we’re seeing from Florida, sadly. Florida currently bans teachers from talking about who they are and who they love. As we’ve talked about many times here in this briefing room, they have banned more books in schools and libraries than almost every other state in the country. And let’s not forget, they didn’t block AP European History. They didn’t block our music history. They didn’t block our art history. But the state chooses to block a course that is meant for high-achieving high school students to learn about the history of arts and culture. And it is, you know, it is incomprehensible again, and I will just leave it there. Leave it there to make your own to make your own determination. of why this occurred and why this happened. Again, it is not our place to direct or to be involved in any local school curriculum. But this is concerning.”

I recently watched a documentary on the suspicious death of high school student Kendrick Johnson in 2013. One of the side stories was of Mary Tuner, who was lynched in Georgia in 1918 for the crime of speaking out about her husband being lynched the day before. After the white mob strung Mary Turner up by her feet, doused her with gasoline and oil then set on fire, her unborn child was cut from her abdomen and stomped to death. Her body was then repeatedly shot. No one was ever convicted of her lynching.

That’s American history; I hate it, but I need to know it so I can try to make sure it doesn’t happens again. That story doesn’t make me hate myself, or white people, it makes me hate the white people that did that to Mary Turner.

If Ron DeSantis doesn’t want that story told in American History classes he best be prepared for it to happen again.

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Sir Ian McKellen, Tony and Golden Globe-winning out gay actor, on why the word “love” has special significance to him:

“If you ever arrive in Manchester and if you’re lucky enough to be able to afford a taxi, you get in the back of one and the taxi driver—usually a man, but not always—says ‘Where you going love?’ Oh, and I feel I’m home; where grown men call strangers ‘love.’ I think if we all did that, it would be a rather better place, wouldn’t it? [And if] people have got problems with gender, and pronouns, and so on, Love covers everything really. Just call everyone love. I mean ‘comrade’ would do, or ‘brother,’ or ‘son,’ or whatever; ‘Man,’ yeah, ‘mate.’ Yeah, these are all good words. But… But ‘love’… If that’s the start of our relationship, I don’t think we can go far wrong, can we?”

Love. Love, it’s really just that simple.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Sir Ian McKellen, urging gay people to be fierce allies to trans people:

"I do hear people—gay people—talk about transgender people in very much the same terms as people used to talk about your common or garden gay. ‘The connection between us all is we come under the queer umbrella – we are queer. I quite like being queer actually. The problems that transgender people have with the law are not dissimilar from what used to be the case for us, so I think we should all be allies really. But you say that, and the wrath of God comes down on you from certain quarters."

We cannot ever forget that it was trans women who rioted at Stonewall in 1969. It was trans women who paved the way for the rest of us to fight for our equality.

And we cannot, should not, will not, forget them, or let their struggle, which continues today and is far harder than ours, be only their struggle. The struggle for equality is for all of us.

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Devin Ibañez, pro rugby player who played with the New England Skipjacks, coming out  on social media:

“As 2020 comes to a close I took the time to reflect on my life and what aspects I could control and make positive changes to that would impact my day-to-day life and happiness. It became clear to me that living my life with more transparency and openly celebrating who I love would have an immediate positive impact on me and those I care about. So, I want to start 2021 by celebrating the love of my life and my partner [Fergus Wade] who has been with me through the highs and the (very) lows of the last three years. I am openly gay. This is something that is not a secret to those close to me and even several people not close to me. But I always felt a need to keep it separate from my rugby career. I always came up with a reason why being more vocal would be a distraction, detrimental, or unnecessary. As the years went by no level of success was enough to justify potentially losing opportunities within the sport, jeopardizing relationships, or making myself a target on the pitch. The final goal became ‘Once I sign a pro contract I will be more vocal and become the first openly gay MLR player’. As the day came and went that I signed [that] contract … I moved the goalposts even further. This was largely fueled by a narrative I told myself that unless I left no doubt about deserving my spot that I would be viewed as a token and not a true professional. But what I considered as casting a shadow I’ve slowly realized can also act as a beacon. So, I have decided to embrace what I once felt embarrassed of and be proudly and shamelessly myself. I have met some incredibly talented LGBTQ rugby players over the years, many of whom were blackballed from playing a high level solely due to being gay. As of now I am the only openly gay rugby player to earn a contract with an MLR side. I hope that I will meet others Iike myself playing a high level of rugby and hoping to inspire the next generation of proud LGBTQ rugby players. So I will proudly call myself ‘that gay rugger’ in hopes that one day it won’t sound strange in men’s rugby.”

2021 and we are still struggling to come out because of fear of what ‘others ‘might think. It’s time to realize that it doesn’t matter about those ‘others, ‘and that only what makes us happy should be considered.

Be a gay rugger. Be a rough looking gay rugger.

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Demi Lovato, actress and singer, saying that gender reveal parties are transphobic:

“This is not about being politically correct, it’s about being correct. The refusal to acknowledge this stems from a misunderstanding of what transphobia is. Transphobia is not just prejudice or violence against an individual trans person, it is a belief system that presumes non-trans people to be more ‘natural’ than trans people. Only individual people can self-determine their gender.”

It took me a minute to wrap my head around it, but it makes perfect sense. Don’t celebrate the gender, celebrate the baby; celebrate the life, whatever life turns out to be for that child.

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Taylor Simone Ledward Boseman, accepting a golden Globe for her late husband, Chadwick Boseman—who won as Best Actor for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom—and spoke so beautifully:

“He would thank God. He would thank his parents. He would thank his ancestors for their guidance and their sacrifices. He would thank his incredible team, Michael Greene, Azeem Chiba, Nicki Fioravante, Evelyn O’Neill, Chris Huvane, Logan Coles. He would thank his team on set for this film: Deirdra Dixon, Siân Richards, Craig Anthony, and Andrew Carlone. He would say something beautiful, something inspiring, something that would amplify that little voice inside of all of us that tells you can, that tells you to keep going, that calls you back to what you are meant to be doing in this moment in history. He would thank Mr. George C. Wolfe, Mr. Denzel Washington, lots of people at Netflix. He would thank Ms. Viola Davis, Mr. Glynn Turman, Mr. Michael Potts, Mr. Coleman Domingo, Ms. Taylour Paige, Mr. Dusan Brown. And I don’t have his words, but we have to take all the moments to celebrate those we love. So thank you, HFPA, for this opportunity to do exactly that. And hon, you keep ’em coming. Thank you.”

Earlier in the ceremony, TikTok star La’Ron Hines had a segment asking preschoolers about the entertainment industry.  Like most kids, they knew nothing about show business: One said his favorite actor was “Captain America,” while another opined that movies were made “from bricks” but when asked who Chadwick Boseman was every single one said: Black Panther.

Everybody knows Black Panther. Everybody misses Chadwick Boseman.

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John Bolton, on CNN, about CPAC  and the former president:

“If this is the epitome of support for [the twice-impeached, one-term loser], the straw poll that was taken this weekend and released just before [the twice-impeached, one-term loser], spoke, showed of all the participants 55% supported [the twice-impeached, one-term loser], being re-elected as president. That is a pathetic figure. I would have expected 90%. So if 55%, one month after leaving office at CPAC, is the best he can do, that’s a mark of how far he has fallen already.”

While, again, Bolton who sat by and allowed this stain to happen to this country and said nothing until he was fired and could write a book, can fuck all the way off.

But I do love the idea that it was barely half of the loons at CPAC who want to see the twice-impeached, one-term loser in office ever again.

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Al Green, Democrat Congressman from Texas responding to Greg Steube, GQP Congressman from Florida, during the debate on the Equality Act :

“You used God to enslave my foreparents. You used God to segregate me in schools. You used God to put me in the back of the bus. Have you no shame? God created every person in this room. Are you saying that God made a mistake? This is not about God, it’s about men who choose to discriminate against other people because they have the power to do so. My record will not show that I voted against Mr. Cicilline having his rights. My record will show that when I had the opportunity to deliver liberty and justice for all, I voted for rights for all.”

Steube stood on the floor of Congress in 2021 and said transgender people are an insult to God, and then read from Deuteronomy 22:5:

"A woman must not wear men's clothing nor a man wear women's clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this."

So, he said God Hates. And that’s what we need to stop; hate.

Equality is just that and nothing more; it’s not special, it’s not more, it’s not better; it’s just equal.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Seth Meyers, on the firing of Omarosa in as she claims, the Situation Room:

“Wow, the Situation Room, though I have a feeling any room Omarosa walks into becomes the Situation Room. Seriously, you know it’s bad when they have to fire you in the same place they killed Osama bin Laden.”

Omarosa Bin Laden. Yeah, that sounds about right.

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Complicit _____, on Fox & Friends  to promote the GOP tax bill, but proving she doesn’t understand it at all:

"I'm really looking forward to doing a lot of traveling in April when people realize the effect that this [tax bill] has... The vast majority will be [doing their taxes] on a single postcard.”

Um, Complicit? May I call you Stupid?

Yes, Republicans hope to one day simplify and streamline taxes to the point where you could file them on a postcard but that isn’t happening this year.

Stupid. Complicit. Ass.

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Greg Locke, “pastor” of the Global Vision Bible Church, on Jack Phillips, the anti-gay baker at the heart of that Supreme Court case:

“If you’re anything like me, you’re sick and tired of hearing about this homosexual cake baking nonsense. The LGBTABCDEFG – whatever the foolish acronym is at this particular point, they’ve gone overboard. They have fake outrage, selective drama, and why don’t they get up and go try that nonsense at a Muslim bakery? See if they get their tails thrown out in the street and see what happens then. This is an absolute, positive target. It is a target on Evangelicals with actual convictions. Time out Bucko. I don’t really give the flip of a wooden nickel who you have sex with. I don’t care about your stupid perverted sex life! But I do care when you cram it down my kid’s throats in public school. I do care when every sitcom, every late night talk show host, every comedian, every song, every movie coming out has to push push push push push push the agenda. We’re sick of you pushing your agenda. You’re emotionally scarred because you’re a pervert and you do things that are an abomination to God. You’re not emotionally scarred because someone won’t make you a cake. Are. You. Flipping. Kidding. Me.”

Methinks a closet case doth protest too much, but, still, I wonder how this so-called pastor would feel if a baker refused to bake a cake for a Christian?

Uh huh.

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Sarah Huckleberry Sanders, refusing to offer specifics of how the GOP Tax Scam will, as _____ claimed, “cost [him] a fortune”:

“This actually could impact the president in a large way.”

Yes, just because she said it, we’re supposed to believe it.

Bitch.

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Sarah Silverman, comedian, on patriotism in America:

“The right has perverted the meaning of being liberal, or being feminist. Even ‘social justice warrior’ is an insult. We pervert language so much. Patriotism has always been a bit owned by the right. Patriotism is perverted. We’re not on the same page of what it means. To me, being patriotic is loving your country — being a citizen, having a voice, being e pluribus unum. How perverted it is to go from ‘We are one’ to ‘We are number one,’ which is such a childish idea.”

Patriotism doesn’t mean whites only, men only, the rich only, America only.

The right doesn’t get that because they have a buffoon in charge.

The right doesn’t get that because they have a buffoon in charge.

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Ian McKellen, on Kevin Spacey being an assh*le for using his own sex scandal to come out of the closet:

“The circumstances in which he chose to do it are reprehensible because it linked alleged underage sex with a declaration of sexuality.”

Word.

I said it before, gay men don’t molest boys, pedophiles do, and the majority of pedophiles are straight men.

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Tom Goss, openly gay singers, has recorded “Gay Christmas”, inspired by his own decision to not go home for the holidays, about five people who ultimately but find their own family in each other:

“Too many of us have had to learn to accept less from our families when it comes to fully embracing us for who we are. It’s become even worse since the election, due to the sense of betrayal we felt when we learned how family and friends voted. Yet we are expected to be the ones to forgive, to ‘move on’ and pretend everything is okay, even as the current administration and GOP keep supporting anti-gay politicians and policies.”

Sometimes it’s not the family you’re born into, but the family you make.

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It's Snarkurday!

Taylor Swift and her pals — and by ‘pals’ I mean the people she brought with her to VMA after-parties and paid their bar tabs, their hair and make-up tabs, stylists and transportation bills — were apparently a bunch of mean girls to diminutive pipsqueak pop star, Arianna Grande, and her brother, hanger-on-with-n-real-job, Frankie, because Swifty demanded the duo be kept away from her and her friend$.

At first, people thought it was just Frankie because … who? … but Swifty made it clear that she wanted an Arianna-Free Zone.

Perhaps TayTay was serving donuts and she didn’t want to tempt Grande who has been known to tongue some sweet treats?

It pays to be a Food Network star and it pays to divorce one, too.

Giada De Laurentiis is officially divorced from her husband Todd Thompson, but not without coughing up some coins.

Giada will pay Todd $9,000 a month in child support and give him their $3.2 million Pacific Palisades home, as well as $300,000 in art and furnishings. He also gets to keep his membership in the swanky Bel-Air Bay Club. In return, Giada gets all rights to an untitled Italian cookbook and her production company, Linguine Pictures, as well as the rights to GDL Foods, Inc.

But, because there was no prenup, Todd will also get 50% of the unpaid advances for various cookbooks, including a $2.5 million balance for Giada at Home/Weeknights with Giada, $2.3 million for Giada Feel Good Food, and $757,000 for Everyday Pasta/Giada’s Kitchen.

Wow. I should’a married a Food Network star!

So, fired Real Housewives of Beverly Hill’s “star” Brandi Glanville is being sued by out-of-a-job Real Housewives of Miami “star” Joanna Krupa because Brandi claims Krupa’s vagina stinks.

Uh huh. And that led to the lawsuit for “slander, libel, defamation and/or intentional inflection of emotional distress”.

Uh huh. And that led to Brandi’s defense lawyers and their questions that Krupa must answer in a deposition:

“Is it your contention in this lawsuit that your vagina and/or vulva are odorless? If yes, please explain with specificity why your vagina and/or vulva are odorless.”

Yup. Krupa will have to prove she has a sweet-smelling va-jay-jay.

That is one jury I want to be excused from …

In other Real Housewives of Beverly Hills news … recovering alcoholic and public drunk, Kim Richards won’t be heading to jail … at least not for acting the fool at a posh hotel.

Richards struck a plea deal this week and will get three years’ probation, and she must attend 52 Alcoholics Anonymous classes and complete 30 days of community labor, like cleaning up a freeway or a hotel bathroom after a drunk vomits in there.

Oh, and she is banned from the Beverly Hills Hotel … for life ... though she’s still facing charges for shoplifting $612.00 worth of stuff from Target.

I wonder if Target will ban her for life as well.

In more vagina news … I sense a trend and I don’t like it … this one is for the books.

A few years ago, some strange fan, or fanatic, started an online rumor that pop star Demi Lovato had, um, flicked her vagina during a meet and greet. Not only that, but Demi apparently flicked her vagina, made fun of the fan’s weight, and made her cry.

Demi called it the most ridiculous experience she’s ever had with a fan and now it’s come back up again because the fan apparently reposted the story …

“[Lovato] was rude, not classy and she lost a long time lovatic that day. I walked into the $350 [meet and greet] and say hello she replies with ‘fat’ and I shook it off because I thought maybe I had heard her wrong. As I approached her and asked to do my pose she stared at me blank faced. I continued talking ‘you saved my life’ I say ‘you’re the reason I’m alive today.’ She looks me dead in the eye and says ‘you’ll die soon enough fatty’ and then whispered ‘obesity.’ I started crying I had never felt pain like this and she started laughing and said ‘are you crying? Stop it. Stop it now’ and she flicked my vagina. I headed out of the M&G section and that’s when Demi started speaking whale to me. I still can’t believe this happened.”

The girl also claims that Lovato exchanged twitter messages and Demi kept up the fat rant, though the girl has no proof.

Seriously? Vagina flicking? Is this a thing?

And back to Swifty, who has apparently left one Sir Ian McKellen homeless.

In a recent interview, Sir Ian tells of the time that he was evicted from his apartment by TayTay. Yup, it seems that Swifty had purchased Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson’s NYC apartment whilst Sir Ian was crashing there. And rather than let it continue, TayTay demanded he leave at once.

According to McKellen, he was “thrown out” a month before he was supposed to leave and ended up sleeping with hobbits or something; but he holds no grudge against Swifty saying:

“Well she bought it, she’s every right to take it over. I was just lodging there for free you know.”

But maybe Ian is a bit miffed, because Swift recently asked McKellen and his bestie, Patrick Stewart, to join her on stage during one of her LA shows but they both declined.

You don’t kick out Gandolf — he was Gandolf, right? — and then ask him to help you out onstage.

So, Tom Brady is now not guilty in the DeflateGate scandal, though a new one might be brewing on the home front.

They say they’re fine, but rumor has it that this summer has been tough — with Tom’s deflated balls, and Giselle’s inflated breasts, and Tom hanging out with Ben Affleck’s nanny in Vegas — and Tom has been “nasty and cold” to Gisele and everyone else while he dealt with DeflateGate drama.

And this week Tom appeared in a photo without.his.wedding.ring!

And we all know what means … he left it on the bathroom counter ... in Vegas ... and Affleck's nanny is now wearing it.

Tori Spelling needs money, y’all. I mean, her billionaire daddy left her just 800K in the will, and since she ran through that she’s been selling her life on reality TV and now people are so sick of her and her cheating-not-cheating-porn-addicted husband, that she’s had to come up with a new way to make some coins … besides getting a job.

She’s suing Benihana. Tori claims she suffered second and third-degree burns after slipping at the Encino Benihana last April and falling onto one of the restaurant’s signature table-side hibachi grills.

Spelling claims to have accrued medical expenses, “general damage” and wage loss—Wages? From what?—while she lolled about a hospital bed thinking of suing.

Tori? Dear? Get a job? Away from cameras and hot stoves? M’kay?

New Couple Alert:

Rosie O’Donnell and Tatum O’Neal are said to be having a “bicoastal” love affair.

Is that the PC term for it these days?

Would You Hit It ... Or Which One Would You Hit?

At an X-Men premiere, we stumbled across, from the left, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Sir Ian McKellan and Michael Fassbender.

And we have a simple question ...

Which one would you hit?

I Didn't Say It

Edith Windsor, on being considered one of Time magazines People of the Year:

"I am honored that Time chose me as one of the number 3 individuals in the top 5 nominees for ‘Person of the Year,’ but I am just one person who was part of the extraordinary and on-going fight for marriage equality for all our families. There are thousands of people who helped us come this far and we still have a lot more work to do. The gay community is my ‘person of the year’ and I look forward to continuing to fight for equal rights and educate the public about our lives alongside my gay brothers and sisters and our allies. Thea would be thrilled, proud and so happy to see what we have all accomplished together."

For me, Edith is like a gay Rosa Parks.

She stood up and refused to back down because she wanted to be treated equally in this country, as is her right.

Her fight might have begun just for her but it ended up rewarding us all.

Michelangelo Signorile, on the twenty year age difference between new couple Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black:

"Let's cut the ageist crap. The 'yuk' is a display of nothing but disgust for someone older. Yes, [Dustin Lance] Black is old enough to be [Tom] Daley's father. But he's not. If Black were just a couple of years older than Daley, he could be his brother too. But he's not. Shocking news for you: You're all going to be old. And your tastes are going to evolve over time. Some younger people are attracted to older people, and vice versa. There's even a gay website called Daddyhunt. The famed novelist Armistead Maupin's 27-years-younger husband, Christopher Turner, founded it. They met on another one of Turner's sites, HotOlderMale.com. If that's not your thing, it's totally cool, but in that case just shut your mouth."

Will it last? Ain’t my biz’ness. Is Dustin Lance too old, or Tom too young? Ain’t my biz’ness.

Like Signorile says, if it ain’t your thing, don’t do it, but don’t denigrate another couple’s relationship because you don’t like it. We ought to celebrate these two men finding one another because love is a good thing.

Beau McCoy, Nebraska state Senator and Republican contender for governor, on blocking benefits for same-sex Nebraska couples legally married in other states:

"Make no mistake, every time same-sex couples get the same recognition as a married couple, the Nebraska Constitution and the will of Nebraskans gets undermined. The people of Nebraska spoke out loud and clear. As governor, I will not allow the institution of marriage or our constitution to be attacked by expanding state benefits to state employees in same-sex relationships who get married in other states."

And you probably won’t get elected because of your bassackward views.

John Scarpa, attorney for Rasheen Everett, who was found guilty of the murder of transgender prostitute Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar:

"A sentence of 25 years to life is an incredibly long period of time, judge. Shouldn’t that be reserved for people who are guilty of killing certain classes of individuals? Who is the victim in this case? Is the victim a person in the higher end of the community? Amanda was engaged in a life of prostitution, life of drug use, HIV exposure. She was having sex with other individuals knowing she had the chance of spreading diseases."

So, in Scarpa’s mind, it was a good thing she was murdered?

I guess that means we should all be able to go out and kill people in certain classes who somehow deserve to die.
PS The judge sentenced his client to 29 years in jail.

Ass.Hat.

Kanye West, the gift that keeps on giving, on the dangers of being a rap artist:

“Like, I’m just giving of my body on the stage; I’m putting my life at risk, literally! I think about when I’m on the ‘Can’t Tell Me Nothing,’ and ‘Coldest Winter’ moment, like that mountain [a prop on stage] goes really, really high. And if I slipped … You never know. And I think about it, I think about my family and I’m like, ‘Wow.’ … This is like, being a police officer or something, in war or something.”

Yes, being an ego-maniacal, self-involved, self-entitled, delusional, maybe gay, rap star with a Jesus complex, performing on stage is the same thing as being a police officer protecting citizens, or military personnel protecting our country.

Wow.

Rick Warren, megachurch “pastor”, on marriage equality:

"I think historically, around the world, the vast majority of people would say marriage means one man and one woman in a commitment. Don't take a term and make it something different. Orwell talked about doublespeak, where words mean the exact opposite of what they used to mean. I cannot see [Christians supporting full equality for LGBT citizens] happening in my life. I fear the disapproval of God more than I fear your disapproval or the disapproval of society."

Historically, we also believed one time in the rights of men to physically own other human beings. Historically, and biblically, we believed that marriage made the wife a possession of the man; that the wife was property; that marriage was a power play or a land grab.

Things change, Ricky, and Christians will change and leave you standing on the side of the road spouting your bigotry.

Damian Lewis, of Showtime’s Homeland, apparently throwing shade at Sir Ian McKellen—though he doesn’t mention McKellen by name:

“[I didn't want to end up] as one of those slightly over-the-top, fruity actors who would have an illustrious career on stage, but wouldn’t start getting any kind of film work until I was 50 and then start playing wizards.”

Okay, really Damian? Fruity? Isn’t there a better gay slur to use? Was fag or queer not an option?

You’re a dick and we’ll see what happens to your career after Homeland which, by the way, is the only reason we know you while McKellen is known for much more than being a ‘wizard’.

Gods and Monsters, to name just one brilliant role.

Sir Ian McKellen, openly gay gentleman and actor, responding to Lewis’ remarks:

“So he feels sorry for me, does he? Well, I’m very happy, he needn’t worry about me. To rebut it, I wouldn’t like to have been one of those actors who hit stardom quite early on and expected it to continue and was stuck doing scripts that I didn’t particularly like just to keep the income up. I’ve always wanted to get better as an actor. And I have got better. You’ve only got to see my early work to see that. As for a fruity voice? Well, it may be a voice that is trained like an opera singer’s voice: to fill a large space. It is unnatural.”

Snap.

Get back to me, Damian, when you have half the career of McKellen.

Damian Lewis, apparently sober ... I kid ... apologizing to Ian McKellen:

"I am hugely embarrassed that comments of mine have been linked in a negative way to Sir Ian McKellen. I have always been, and continue to be, an enormous fan and admirer of Sir Ian's. He's one of the greats and one of the reasons I became an actor. My comment in the Guardian was a soundbite I've been giving since 1999 – it was a generic analogy that was never intended to demean or describe anyone else's career. I have contacted Sir Ian McKellen and have given him my sincerest apologies."

Generic? The “playing a wizard”: reference was fairly specific.

But at least it was kind of an apology.