Openly gay Scott Thompson thinks gay kids should "grow a pair"

Even as he admits that isn't something he could have done.


You've addressed bullying before, specifically how the It Gets Better campaign is basically a lie - it might not get better, you say. What would you tell bullied kids then?

Grow a pair. Here's the thing: The world is not kind to us; it never really will be. The gay male is always going to be at the bottom. I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened. But you have to fight back. So much of these bullying campaigns are part of the trend that we were just talking about - the recasting of gay men as eternal victims and it's like, fight back! Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch. He does that to you, here's what you do: You ****ing punch him in the face.

I could never do it as a kid.

I couldn't either, but with standup comedy you have that microphone - wow, is that powerful.

I'm just not even sure what to make of this. He even says he was scarred by things in his childhood and wishes that someone could have helped him. I agree with him that gay people shouldn't be cast as eternal victims, but I don't really think that's what anti-bullying campaigns do.

Also, he doesn't get many gay people at his shows because he's not a "ghetto queen."




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Updated On: 11/3/11 at 03:37 PM

I remember seeing his Buddy Babylon one-man show in 1998 and while it had some humorous moments, it was really just an annoying queen onstage for 90 minutes saying things I could only imagine straight people would truly find outrageous and hilarious. I bought the book out of curiosity thinking it would probably be funnier without the visual. It was worse. I just hated it. Perhaps he doesn't get many gay people at his shows because they have seen his shows.

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I LOVED the Buddy Babylon book. Especially when Buddy took credit for inventing the bear subculture.

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"it's implicit that they're monogamous, which we know is nonsense"

We do?

There's always the Gaga approach

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"Together we hope to establish a standard of bravery and kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment." - GaGa

I love that. A lot.

I finally had a moment to read the whole thing. Here's what I like. It's a conversation. With somebody who has ideas that actually evolve in the course of the conversation. We're so used to pre-packaged stuff that is honed to a pitch-perfect degree that it ends up being a feel-good bromide for the subject's audience. I just like the interview because it's so rare to see that kind of thing.

I disagree with a lot of what he says, but not enough to hate him for it the way I disagree with everything Rick Santorum says.

I didn't know that Thompson had undergone cancer treatment, which led to him saying this, a line a loved:

Seriously, the other day I saw a Pepsi truck that was painted pink and that had a ribbon on it and I'm thinking, "Pepsi, you ****ing cause cancer!" It's like a fist being the spokesperson for domestic violence.

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By all accounts, Lawrence King grew a pair and stood up for himself and look where that got him.