More Step Forward: Lesbian Couple Feared for Safety at Morgan's Show

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/06/13/More_Step_Forward__Lesbian_Couple_Recounts_Fear_for_Safety_At_Tracy_Morgan_s_Show/

It’s hard to imagine sitting in the audience while comedian Tracy Morgan unloaded a string of antigay comments from stage. But Cynthia Wagner and Katie Cleek don’t have to imagine. They were there. And the couple can’t stop reliving those tense moments. Part of them feels relieved to have made it out of the auditorium safely.

Without video of the tirade, it’s all the more difficult to understand what it must have been like to be a lesbian couple, cuddled closely in the pew-style seating of the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, caught with Wagner’s arm around Cleek when Morgan suddenly said over the microphone that there’s no such thing as women loving women. Witnesses say Morgan claimed all lesbians have “daddy issues” and just hate men.

“I felt my face blush and just felt so uncomfortable,” remembers Cleek, whose partner “grabbed my hand and just had a death grip on my hand the rest of the show.”

“I wanted so badly to get up and leave but then the fear had me locked in those seats,” Wagner said. “There was no joke. Everyone was waiting with baited breath for the punch line.”

They waited as Morgan said gays should “quit being pussies” when it comes to bullying. They waited through him saying he would stab his son to death if he were gay. They waited for the punch line that should drain the tension out of the moment. But it never came, they say. Instead, much of the audience reacted with hoots and cheers to what sounded to the couple like a speech – a hate speech.

[queerart]

1. He Calls (And Advocates) For The Death Of Queers....

He belittles others in the GLBTQI community....... (and this is not the first time mind you)


All with a smile, of course.......


... and those in the National spotlight... what do they say in return?.... NOT JACK SHIT!.....


I ponder how "funny", and how "acceptable".... it would be for those in the National spotlight if he said he would "knife someone of color, a woman, or a mentally challenged individual"?


We all know the roof would be brought down on him (AS IT SHOULD BE IN ALL THE SCENARIOS).....


He is no different than the rest of the Terrorists calling for the death of Gays....


But he said it with a smile, so there should be no repercussions, right?


Some will hate you publicly... while others will smile, and hate you secretly..... but never confuse the fact, that both groups despise you with equal intensity....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miULdI-qocg

[roguevalley]

2. he's a friend of Jon Stewart. Watch him tonight. Poor women. I hug them

long distance. He's on huffington saying he's love his gay son. Right. Sure.

[yardwork]

3. Morgan said terrible things about women, gay and straight.

His speech attacked women, children, and gay people.