Famous openly gay people DLers don't like, and why

No one but a douchebag uses the word thirsty. In fact in all my years in NYC, SF, LA, Miami and Chicago, I HAVE NEVER HEARD it used excet when referring to water.

r1, because she is such a cunt

Ellen: a seething ugly cunt who likes to hang out with and defend homophobes and war criminals.

Elton John is one of the most famous people on the planet. Megastars don’t climb; they mingle.

[quote]NPH

Normal pressure hydrocephalus?

Elton tries to "mingle" with the royal family, which is pretty pathetic.

He was a friend of Diana and is close to her sons. Nothing pathetic about that.

Dan Savage, for appointing himself (trashy sex columnist and failed playwright) the Official Spokesperson For All Things LGBTQIA For Life, even though many of his POV are alienating and divisive, eg, to lesbians or gay men who support monogamy. I don't recall ever voting for him.

Even some good ideas like the It Gets Better campaign get fucked up and are transformed into It Get$ Better For Dan $avage.

And even worse, for unleashing Terry Miller, his plastic aging famewhore spouse upon the world.

Famewhore, straight-up whore, six of one...

Wait, are there openly gay famous people the DL actually likes?

R10 asks a fair question. Top of mind:

Rachel Maddow, for the most part.

Lily Tomlin.

George Takei.

Martina Navratilova (and if you don't like or know her, you should).

Stephen Sondheim.

Tim Gunn.

Ian McKellan.

Barney Frank.

Tammy Baldwin.

Sorry, I love Elton.

Billy Jean King and Jan-Michael Gambill.

Sam Smith

Though does he still count as gay even if he identifies as non-binary now?

Sam Smith for making watered down, flavorless music that is like a mix of a watered-down Whitney Houston with watered-down Luther Vandrosss, if that makes any sense. Plus, he is non-binary and said he has always "thought like a woman", so 50 points off for him.

Red head on modern family too ugly and annoying!

Jussie Smollett

A liar and the biggest attention whore the world has ever seen.

There’s already been a thread on this OP. Would it have killed you to have done a search first before you posted this? I mean really? What’s wrong with having a little consideration for others and doing a search first? Would it really have been that hard? Would it?

Alook Vaid-Menon. Some of the worst poetry I have ever read. Whatever he's writing, it's NOT poetry. And he writes about how people should want to fuck him and how he is constantly objectified. No dude. You objectify yourself. And maybe if you didn't wear dresses and purposely try to wear outlandish clothes, you'd be having sex?

Frankie Grande

A famewhore who tries to ride on his sister's coattails for attention and is just plain annoying.

The Bobbsey Twins of today--Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. A pair of twats who seem to be mean girls underneath their veneer. In the case of Cooper, it's especially disappointing. He used to come off as very professional but his friendship with Cohen has taken him down at least 5 levels.

A better thread would openly gay people DL DOES like, cause we don't like most openly gay people.

James Charles

An ignorant, annoying drama queen who always has to be the center of attention and wears so much makeup that he looks like Bozo the Clown.

Also Sam Smith because the bitch thought he could claim to be the first openly gay man to win an Oscar... until his ass was schooled on social media.

Also, Sam uses too many notes.

I’m extending the warmth of human kindness and understanding to Jussie because he has a very fine dick.

I love Elton for his music and his work for AIDS charities.

Why are we supposed to dislike NPH? He’s multi-talented, has been out for years, seems normal, did well on an ensemble comedy that I admittedly never watched, but I never heard a bad word about him. Except on DL.

Andy Cohen, Ellen, Milo, are all terrible people. Sam Smith is an attention whore.

Thank you [24] for mentioning Howard Ashman in your signature. Loved him.

I like NPH.

BTW, what about DLB and Tom Daley? I feel like we don't talk about them anymore on DL.

J. Edgar Hoover

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Do we actually LIKE any openly gay people? I think not.

Besides Milo, no one has named the truly offensive openly gay people like Peter Thiel or any Log Cabinette.

r6 I just remember in the very first scene of THE ROYALS, Elizabeth Hurley is being briefed on her day while GIMME SHELTER plays.

M'am, Elton John would like to pop in for coffee.

Liz: Pop in? You give someone a knighthood, and suddenly they treat the palace like its a Starbucks.

Don't we like Jeff Lewis?

DL really dislikes NPH?

Weird, if true.

Kevin Spacey

An old pervert who refused to come out as gay until he was forced to when he was outed as a sex predator

Andy Cohen is a love-to-hate, which is distinctly different from a genuine "don't like" or "hate."

r23 I don't really have an opinion/care about James Charles, but I will say that I once stupidly sat through some extended news interview featuring him and some of the makeup portraits that they showed were stunning--in a way that reminded me more of body art than everyday makeup. I don't know how hard it is to do artistic makeup portraits like they showed, maybe it's not hard at all (I suspect it actually is), but regardless that made me respect him a lot more as an artist than just a mua youtube "star." Also, he's like what, 19?! Give him a break!

I agree with the rest of you though, sam smith is tedious and exhausting, but since he wants to be a woman/non-binary now, he's no longer gay! Amazing how that works, isn't it, you can just identify right out of a sexuality!

Anderson Cooper proves to be hateable. Not only is he friends with that lazy-eyed koala, but he’s so BORING. Every interview he’s in he sits like a lump and posing. He’s utterly devoid of personality. He seems like an uptight, dull, weird pod person.

Peter Thiel is loathsome.

I'd say Roy Cohn, but I guess he never admitted being gay. Ditto for Liberace.

Liberace is (understandably) a figure of some ridicule, larger-than-life, a bit of a clown.

But hateworthy?

I save my hatred for the Bryan SIngers, Kevin Spaceys, and yes, the Roy Cohns.

Lee Pace. Before he came out there were numerous threads on him, after he came out the threads turned sour and pretty negative. Now they're nonexistent. I have no idea what happened. Same with Luke Evans. DLers seem to only like closet-cases but once they're out they lose all interest.

[R8] Dan Savage makes me sick, he makes me want to puke my guts out.

Ronan Farrow is quite hated, God knows why. A combination of Woody fanboys and NAMBLA members, I suppose.

"Hatred" is much too active and passionate an emotion to waste on these self-important, self-promoting assclowns.

That said--I dislike them intensely and suspect a lot of other DLers do, too.

Too bad, because the original Fab 5 were kind of amusing, at least to a point.

OP you really think that's why people don't like Milo? REALLY?

When people say Elton john is a social climber it defies logic. He's one of the biggest recording artist of all time and perhaps the biggest singer songwriter of the 70s. He can't be a social climber because he made his own legacy. Not liking him is one thing, but people don't know what these phrases and words they be using mean.

Wow,, r46. You really don't understand the way things work in the UK, do you?

Being a self-made man will only take you so far there. It's not like the US where your social position has to do mostly with what you did with your life--in the UK, that's important, but who your family is equally if not more important (and for some people still, that's ALL they care about).

Elton was friends with the royals before Diana. The Queen Mother often visited Elton's home and he hers as they lived close by in Windsor. Elton often played -private concerts for the royal family and was asked to play at Prince Andrew's 21st where he first met Diana before she was married to Prince Charles. Elton used to always keep gin and Dubonnet on hand at his Windsor home as it was The Queen Mothers' favourite drink.

r47 Like Meghan Markle you mean?

r47 This used to be true and is still somewhat to an extent. You see the newly rich trying to buy their way into society.

Elton John for his connection to Rush Limbaugh.

NPH for overexposure and being arrogant.

Andrew Rannells just because.

R51 elton donated all of that money to charity. he talks about it in his book.

I respect Elton as a songwriter, but he'd really be better off not associating with Limbaugh and Eminem in the first place.

Artists of conviction say "no" all the time.

Billie Eichner and Jesse Tyler ferguson two UGLY no talent twats that got famous playing gay stereotype characters!!

I love NPH. Always have. Probably always will. I thought I must in the wrong place when I first discovered DL, as I'd never met a real-life gay man who hated NPH, while all he seemed to inspire here were hatred and derision.

The only gay man I've noticed no hatred of on DL is George Michael.

Graham Norton because he's Graham Norton

Rupert Everett because everything about him is disgusting.

EJ Johnson. There is nothing likable about someone who hangs out with Paris Hilton and who is an embarrassment to big black girls everywhere.

I acknowledge that Billy Eichner's screaming on the street can get a little tiresome.

But he's actually pretty intelligent and politically aware and posts smart, funny things on social media.

There are so many more hate-worthy people in the public eye.

Chris Crocker. Perez Hilton. Milo Yiannopoulos. David Daniels. Pete Buttigieg.

All for obvious reasons.

39 posts and no one’s mentioned Nate Berkus. First off he’s an annoying little fucking Jew asshole cunt . He acts like he’s better than everyone for having a husband.. AND his husbands name is fucking Jeremiah another made up gay name.

[Quote] AND his husbands name is fucking Jeremiah another made up gay name.

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I think one of the reasons Neil Patrick Harris is disliked so much is because he acts so smug all the time. One of the things that put me off him was whenever him being gay was mentioned (and this was way after he came out,) he would always bring up all the women he's been with in the past. And he would do it in a way that would imply he was still in competition with straight men. He comes across as desperate and pathetic, sometimes, and I don't get the impression he's actually comfortable with being gay or at least not as much as he would like us to believe.

Ricky "I'm gay but I want to have sex with women but not in a sentimental way" Martin.

And this is why people still think being gay is a choice. He can fuck right off.

Dolce & Gabbana. Gay men who are anti-gay parenting and conservative. Yuck.

I think we need to ease up on NPH. He was a child actor who - despite the odds - made the transition to adult star AND then came out without it affecting his career. He's not overly flashy offstage and hasn't been linked to scandal, and he's likely helped make gay marriage and gay parenting more acceptable to conservatives in mainstream America.

Rachel fucking Maddow. Worst dyke in the world.

Bruce Vilanch - Just because of that haircut otherwise he's pretty fucking hilarious.

Jodie Foster, for being BFFs with the loathsome Mel Gibson.

Jodie's a mess. Besties with Gibson and closet case Robert Downey Jr.

And for a smart girl, she has terrible taste in film projects, too.

I think NPH gets the same kind of hate Anne Hathaway gets. They both come across like the overeager musical theatre geek from high school, despite the fact that they're actually talented. There was also a time when it seemed like they were in everything and overexposure makes people angry sometimes for no real logical reason.

We don't like any well known openly gay people because we are jealous of what they have achieved.

Which is to say, they don't live with their mothers, generally speaking.

[quote] We don't like any well known openly gay people because we are jealous of what they have achieved.

Or because they behave like total cunts which reflects badly on all of us.

NPH is a cool guy, I think his haters are just jealous bitches.

As for Elton, YES, he's a massive social climber. Yes, he's a huge self-made success, but he's not content with being a middle-class guy made good, he's also devoted decades becoming chums with the royals and upper-level celebrities. Which I didnt care much about, everyone needs a hobby, until I heard that he's been promising to leave money to the ultra-spoiled children of the rich and famous, as a way of ass-kissing his way even higher up the social scale. I would have liked him if he'd offered to leave his hat collection to the royal ladies or something, but showering unearned wealth on the recipients of massive unearned wealth? For that he can burn in hell.

r74 types alcoholic.

I love Neil Patrick Harris. Always have. Always will.

The Elton John comment doesn’t make any sense at all, OP. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

I don't mind NPH, but I can't stand his singing voice. It sounds badly supported and lacks power. He's hitting most of the notes just fine, but I don't like the sound of it. It has a weird quality.

Connor Jessup. Not because he's gay or because he's (relatively) successful. It's because I think he's somewhere on the autism spectrum and those people are trouble.

Connor Jessup is not someone DL seems to dislike. I think it's just you, r79.

r79, You're trouble you dumb ass reductive bitch. How could you be so dismissive. How could one be so discriminatory? Die in a mafuckin grease fire.

No, r37.

I genuinely hate Andy Cohen and frivolous gays like him.