Ben with all due respect Perez is not being himself - he is acting like an obnoxious, attention seeking pervert and some idiots will think that is what gays are all about.

You know I love the gays and my best friend is gay and nothing like Perez and I look up to you on here but to some he represents and while I agree that's sad he's not doing himself any favours by acting just like idiots think gay guys act.

We disagree :shrug:

It's not his being camp... it's his hyperventilating and fake over the top crying at the drop of a hat that is a bad stereotype. It's not his dancing camp in the garden, but his knowingly escalating his actions 10 fold to the point of hysteria.

he is portraying a bad stereotype and he is doing it purposely, and not just being real. The boys on drag race are for the most part real. Perez is not

My point is, those people who are idiots will think that regardless of him. But I'm comfortable enough with my sexuality to know that he does not represent all gays and yes, you will get guys like him who are gay, so, who cares. Who get all sorts of different straight people, nice nuts, awful and *****. Same for gays.

This should not be about his sexuality, people are just using that as another reason to hate him. If you hate him, you hate him, fine.

I totally agree.

I think Michelle made her comments from a place of being afraid of more generalisations being made about gay people. This is wrong because nobody should have to act a certain way to "dispel" misconceptions made about the group of people to which they belong and identify with/their community. It is morally perverse to guilt-trip him into behaving well by using his sexuality as the trigger. Nobody has to cater to the racists/homophobes of the public.

Yes but this isn't about you its about a hell of a lot of people who still stereotype gays as these screeching, pervey queens and Michelle has worked hard with the LGBT community to dash those views out.

She was genuinely upset because she feels Perez is portraying us gay people in a bad light and I respect her for standing up for us.

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Which was why she was disgusted with Perez.

But you do get these types of people in the gay community, why should they feel ashamed for being like that? There is NOTHING WRONG with it. It's not who I am or all gay guys but my god why should he or anyone like that feel bad for being like that? That is just as oppressive as anything.

Gay people need to learn alot more acceptance within their own "community" before they preach about the rest of society.

That's NOT who Perez is! That's the whole point! Perez is acting!

I honestly just don't think you see where Michelle is coming from.

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So? There are straight housemates who have played up and acted fake. Are they being misrepresentative of the straight "community"? No.

People need to stop looking at people as labels and "representatives" and look at them as individuals. It's not that hard.

No Daniel, the thing is I do. I used to represent the LGBT and the whole point of it is being supportive not judgemental. Perez may be acting, but again that is what some guys do.

This is true but its not black and white or as simple as that.

Luckily you are a person who doesn't discriminate but trust me as a victim of homophobia (once getting spat at, once getting kicked in the groin and "let go" from work after continuously being laughed at and called a fag) hate is still out there and it needs to be squashed.

Perez is adding fuel to the fire for people who hate gays for being pervy and attention seeking. If that was the real Perez then fair enough everyone has a right to be who they are BUT Perez is ACTING!

Who are you backing for the win this year Dan

But, you see, the problem lies with them and not Perez or anybody like him.

If someone is judgemental and unaccepting of others then trying to make the people they hate "a little more appealing" is counter productive.

That's like sending the message that in order to please bigots or be liked you must act a certain way.

Hate will always be there. Being different is nothing to be ashamed of.

Michelle but I think Calum may pullit out of the bag.

I think by your sig you agree? lol

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Yes but f u c k I n g a window and pretending to cum 3 times IS something to be ashamed of.

But what has that got to do with his sexuality?

You're talking specifically about Michelles speech! She said she was disgusted with his behaviour of pretending to orgasm whilst dry humping the windows.

Sorry didn't you make this thread?

Have you ever disliked a female contestant? Especially one that fitted Michelle's prototype?

Ken was acting up some disgraceful behaviour in the house, did Michelle feel the need to tell the public that all 71 year old men aren't like that? No because she knows that Ken has a fanbase and she has spent time in the UK for awhile according to herself.

Michelle was desperate to get on a Liberal high horse, but because nobody was giving it her she had to use Perez in some desperate attempt to get it in, it really was pathetic.

But because she has a vagina some members on here will just call her amazing and not pay attention at all to her ridiculous and offensive comments towards gay people, and to the audience at home for insulting our intelligence that we can't tell that his just an individual, not representing all of the gay community.

She was wrong to make an incredible fuss about it, but I'm not going to criticize her because it comes from a good place. It might be a bit outdated to think that there's a "certain way" for a group of people to behave rather that just people as a whole, but I can see where she's coming from.

It would be like saying to a black person, “to please one of the other two races you must change your skin colour.”

And then they get painted white or brown whenever they was around those people, or darkening a white persons skin to make them more appealing to the racists of other communities.

Or telling men not to check womens asses out otherwise The Police will be called on you.

Or women should stop complaining as you're making women come across like naggers.

Why are people so repressed when it comes to sex or sexual acts? As long as there is either a willing participant, legal age, and not another animal or a dead corpse I don't see the problem?

OK first of all if you'd actually watch the show before judging it you'd realise that it's a community that's as diverse and fractured as any, and isn't all about one sort of lifestyle or way of life at all - in fact the show thrives off of the diversity and the differences of 'drag' (there's comedy drag, pageantry drag, alternative/horror drag, 'classic' drag...)

And yes, the shrill, attention-seeking, obnoxious ***** on the show are rightly pulled to pieces and told to **** off quite promptly :laugh: The people who do well on the show are incredibly talented, likeable people and RuPaul & Michelle are really admirable, caring mentors.

So yeah, whilst I think her fears that Perez is now going to be "how people perceive gays" are a bit naive and unnecessary since anyone with a brain is going to realise that twats are twats, not gays are twats, I think she's just exhausted over having to live with such an attention-seeking, toxic cunt.

(Don't get me wrong - I'm enjoying him massively as a housemate - but he is still a terrible human being and has been responsible for saying so many awful, heinous things, literally stalking celebrities, writing hideous stuff like 'Britney should've died, not Heath Ledger'... and we would ALL hate to live with him).