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Tracy Morgan meets New York LGBT group
In an admirable effort to settle the dust after his on-stage rant against gay folks, ‘30 Rock’ star Tracy Morgan met some LGBT youth yesterday at the Ali Forney Center, an LGBT homeless center in the heart of New York.
Tracy, 42, met Jayden Love and Raciel Castillo among others, plus Elke Kennedy whose 20-year-old son was killed in an anti-gay hate crime.
“Our parents’ inability to accept us changed our lives for the worse,” Love and Castillo explained in a statement issued by GLAAD, who arranged the encounter. “We hope that our stories have the power to change not only Tracy’s perspective, but those of any parent who may be struggling with accepting their child.”
The trouble began on June 3rd when Tracy made some unguarded comments about his reaction if his son acted gay. These caused an uproar, with even his ‘30 Rock’ cast-mates Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey denouncing his views. Tracy apologized and this meeting was part of his attempt to make some much-needed repairs.
And he’s not done yet – Tracy is now on route to Tennessee, the scene of his error, to make amends with members of the local gay culture. And Jarrett Barrios, president of GLAAD clearly admires Tracy’s commitment.
“In a state that continues to put anti-gay laws on the books it’s now more important than ever to e let Tennesseans know homophobia has no place on or off the stage,” he told E.
The man sticks to his word, but this would have been less painful if he’d been more choosy with ‘jokes.’ Jarrett likes him, but do you believe Tracy’s for real?
Source: E-Online.
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I don’t believe he’s for real about accepting the LGBT community. He wont make that statement in the first place if he didn’t really mean it. He just retracted his statement and apologized ’cause the studio execs told him to do it. He knows that the LGBT community has a lot of members and they can make or destroy his career. Get your act straight, Tracy. We can smell a fake person a mile away.
I think that a perfectly good kidney was wasted on Tracy Morgan.
This isn’t sincere. It’s what celebs do when they screw up.
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Good to know that he’s really committed on apologizing to the LGBT community. but the damage has already been done, and a lot of sensitive gay people got hurt with his “supposedly just a joke” comments. I kind of believe cooky77, he’s just afraid to lose his job. We also have gay people in the entertainment industry and I am sure that they got hurt too, and now he’s really pressured on gaining back his reputation. I hope his way of saying “sorry” is really sincere.
What’s all this uproar and hatred about the LGBT people? Why can’t other people accept them for who they are? They’re also human beings. This is also one of the reasons why America is in crisis right now, too much discrimination and hate, instead of working together, Americans spend most of their time hating each other. Why is this so?
Acceptance should first come from our family. How can we expect other people to accept us if even our family can’t? Being gay or lesbian is not a contagious disease that people should stay away from. For me, if I don’t like what I’m seeing or what I’m about to see, I just close my eyes…this is not directed to the LGBT people of course.