Alec Baldwin Apologizes For Using Anti-Gay Slur
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | November 15, 2013
Actor Alec Baldwin has apologized for using an anti-gay slur.
TMZ.com claims Baldwin called a photographer outside his apartment a “cocksucking fag” before getting into his car.
Baldwin denied the claim, saying he said “cocksucking fathead.”
GLAAD spokesman Rich Ferraro responded in a statement to TMZ.com: “Mr. Baldwin can't lend his support for equality on paper, while degrading gay people in practice.”
Baldwin apologized in a series of tweets.
“Anti-gay slurs are wrong. They not only offend, but threaten hard fought tolerance of LGBT rights.”
“I'm grateful to all of the ppl I meet + hear from who recognize that I would never say something to offend my friends in the gay community.”
Five hours later, he added: “1-Rich Ferraro from @glaad informs me that c'sucker is an anti-gay epithet. In which case I apologize and will retire it from my vocabulary.”
If this sounds familiar, that's because Baldwin made headlines earlier this year when he called a tabloid reporter a “toxic little queen” in a tweet.