Perez Hilton and LA's LBGT Community

Over at KCET, Japhy Grant writes about a recent run-in with gossip blogger Perez Hilton at a West Hollywood GYM Bar dodgeball game. At first glance, the piece may seem like celebrity namedropping, but a full read gives interesting insights on Hilton’s tenuous place in LA’s LBGT community.

Perez and I go way back. We were friends in college, though that friendship took a turn for the worse after I penned a 2006 Salon article entitled “Perez Hilton’s Gay Witch Hunt” in which I accused him of being a “Savonarola in a pink pants suit” after he made the claim that drawing fake semen on Clay Aiken’s face made him a civil rights advocate….

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