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Paris Hilton’s people must be working overtime this week after secretly recorded audio was leaked (sold?) exclusively to RadarOnline.com where she is heard saying some less than flattering things about the gays that party and bullshit through the help of apps like Grindr.
Jeeze. Talk about a public relations nightmare. Oh, you don’t know what I’m talking about? Here, let me fill you in real fast…
Miss Hilton, the celebritard (not my word, but so fitting for the likes of her) who first became famous because she made a dirty sex tape with an ex-boyfriend that somehow got leaked to the public (oh, and because her family used to own some chain of hotels, I understand), was secretly recorded by a cab driver earlier this month. This sometimes-reality television star, sometimes-pop singer, sometimes-whiny bitch, fulltime famous-for-having-no-real-talent, said the following, when talking to an allegedly openly gay male model friend of hers:
The dude said, "…I log into Grindr, someone that's on Grindr can be in that building and it tells you all the locations of where they are and you can be like, 'Yo, you wanna fuck?' and he might be on like, the sixth floor.”
"Eww. Eww. To get fucked? Gay guys are the horniest people in the world," Paris is heard saying. "They're disgusting. Dude, most of them probably have AIDS."
Okay. Alone, those sentiments are kind of damning and have a ring of homophobia. But, when discussing the comments with a few friends last night at happy hour, the general consensus was that the comments weren’t unlike things we’d likely say ourselves…in mock horror, in jest…about our more slutty friends that hook up with random strangers via a mobile hook-up app.
Sure, we are the horniest, but we know that all gay guys don’t have AIDS. Paris knows that, too. Sometimes we all say things that aren’t true to prove a point.
And, yes, whether we like it or not—whether we are the kinds of guys that have sex with strangers on a regular basis or not—it is kind of disgusting to have sex with strangers. And it’s certainly unwise to have unprotected sex with strangers, which apparently was the larger conversation that Paris was having with her friend. He was allegedly telling her about a friend of his who is HIV positive and who has unprotected sex with strangers without revealing that fact.
And I think we can all agree that that’s a big fat no-no. It’s even illegal in many states.
To her credit and to no ones’ surprise, Paris publically apologized for the leaked comments by writing a letter sent to GLAAD yesterday:
“As anyone close to me knows, I always have been and always will be a huge supporter of the gay community. I am so sorry and so upset that I caused pain to my gay friends, fans and their families with the comments heard this morning. I was having this private conversation with a friend of mine who is gay and our conversation was in no way towards the entire gay community. It is the last thing that I would ever want to do and I cannot put into words how much I wish I could take back every word.
“HIV/AIDS can hurt anyone, gay and straight, men and women. It's something I take very seriously and should not have been thrown around in conversation.
“Gay people are the strongest and most inspiring people I know. It is so wrong when people bully or put down others for being gay. No one should have to go through that. Again, I am so sorry from the bottom of my heart and I feel absolutely horrible. I hope that everyone can accept my apology and know that it is not who I am or how I feel in any way.”
(Perhaps I should take back my previous statement about her people working overtime. This doesn’t have a PR tone to it; I think she may have actually penned this one herself, which is a very good thing.)
To be fair, Paris can also be heard saying on the tape, "I would be so scared if I were a gay guy. You'll like, die of AIDS."
A bit more damning, and obviously an exaggeration, but I’m not going to hate her for it. In her own little way, she’s concerned for us horny bastards. And she’s right; we should play safe, each and every time, even if we know that it’s fairly unlikely that we’ll eventually die of AIDS in this day and age.
Ehh, I know I’m going to get some horrible feedback from this one, but I accept Paris’ apology. I don’t think she hates gays; half of her friends and much of her fan base are gay. And I don’t think it’s fair to chastise someone for private comments that were secretly recorded by a money-hungry cab driver (shame on him and shame on RadarOnline.com).
Hell, if half the stuff I said in private was leaked to the world, I’d have no friends at all. And I bet you’ve said some things, too, that you didn’t really mean, or that was said in jest, that if revealed out of context, would make you look like an asshole, too.
Paris’ 15-minutes will continue. She’ll sell loads of merchandise and still make public appearances. And I bet the gays will forget about this pretty quickly.
And I bet somewhere in the 90210 right now, Paris is hoping Lindsay gets in some kind of drunken brawl or an 86th car accident today so that the attention will quickly turn, as it always does.
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