50 Cent Has the Gay Community Up in Twitter Arms

By Jo Piazza Posted Sep 10th 2010 05:45PM

Earlier this week, rapper 50 Cent decided to take aim at the blogger Perez Hilton in an entirely unorthodox and upsetting way, after Hilton called him a d-bag.

50 tweeted the following: "Perez Hilton calld me d-----bag so I had my homie shoot up a gay wedding. wasnt his but still made me feel better. "

The tweet was accompanied by a photo of two men in suits running from an angry mob.

Perez Hilton responded on Twitter with the equally vitriolic but less biased remark.

"50 Cent joking about violence towards gays is about as expired as the days when he used to be musically relevant!"

Now the gay and lesbian community hopes to go after the rapper, not by having their homies shoot up anyone, but by attacking him on Twitter.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is calling on community members and allies to tweet back at 50 Cent asking folks to tweet:

RT @glaad: Tell @50cent to let his fans know that anti-gay violence isn't something to joke about. http://bit.ly/ab6rXV #LGBT #gay Pls RT!

The rapper has since deleted the Tweet but it still appears in his Twitpic feed.

"Today gay and transgender children are being bullied in schools and many gay and transgender adults are afraid to live openly because of the threat of violence that jokes like this promote. 50 Cent should do the right thing and tell his fans that anti-gay violence is not funny," GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios told PopEater.

It's not the first time 50 Cent has made remarks that have offended the LGBT community.

In a 2004 interview with Playboy magazine, the rapper said, "I don't like gay people around me, because I'm not comfortable with what their thoughts are. I'm not prejudiced. I just don't go with gay people and kick it - we don't have that much in common. I'd rather hang out with a straight dude. But women who like women, that's cool."

50 Cent also revealed his mother had been bisexual in the same interview, and added to his earlier statements.

"It's OK to write that I'm prejudiced. This is as honest as I could possibly be with you. When people become celebrities they change the way they speak. But my conversation with you is exactly the way I would have a conversation on the street. We refer to gay people as f--ts, as h–os. It could be disrespectful, but that's the facts."

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Comments

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Saturday 11 September

By Raina J

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To be honest, neither one of them is better than the other and this whole Twitter thing is retarded.

Sunday 12 September

By Stakks

Fifty is totally right, being gay is a sin like murder, stealing, adultery ect.God did'nt intend for that to happen. he made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Adam, or Eve and Eve. The purpose to produce life by man and women. God help us all.

By eri ca

Any kind of violence is not funny. But they should keep that in the closet. No one needs to know what you do sexually.

By JR

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Perez Hilton can be very cruel and I have to say I'm not a fan of his but really to say that gay people shouldn't exist that's just wrong and horrible. Think about who your hurting before you type anything.

Sunday 19 September

By MYOB

Perez Hilton is proof that even a gay person can be a close-minded bigot.

Monday 14 March

By mike

If only "fiddy" knew what we can "people like him" on the streets and under our breaths. He's about as relevant as Vanilla Ice or MC Hammer.

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