Gay Republican Taylor Garrett has
alleged he was assaulted on Friday for being associated with
conservative celebrity Ann Coulter, the Daily
Caller reported.
Garrett, a co-star of all-gay cabler
Logo's reality series The A-List: Dallas and
a Republican fundraiser, claims he was punched in his left eye by a
vandal whom he caught scratching “Fuck Coulter” on the side of
his car.
“I was at a party
and one of my friends arrived and I had a present for him, so I went
back to my car to get the present. When I walked out to my car, I
saw someone squatting next to my car,” Garrett explained.
Last
month, after it was announced that Coulter, who opposes gay troops
serving openly and gay couples marrying and often promotes anti-gay
stereotypes, would appear on A-List,
Garrett reported that a vandal threw a rock through a window of his
home, along with a note which read: “Who the fuck do you think you
are? You are not A-List. More like Z-List. You are nothing but a
nelly twink trying to get attention by calling yourself a Republican.
You are nothing but an embarrassment to the gay community. Watch
your back you pathetic mother fucking twink.”
Garrett objected to
the suggestion that he had staged the original attack as a media
stunt.
“I
would've thought people would have been a little more tolerant
considering that our community advocates for tolerance, but it has
been nothing but mean spirited attacks, especially after the Ann
Coulter scene,” he told the Daily Caller.
“[J]ust because
you don't support gay marriage doesn't make you a bigot, doesn't mean
you hate gay people, it just means you disagree on gay issues,” he
added.