I've long had misgivings about Perez. I mean, he's a gossip blogger, fer chrissakes, so we can't expect him to have too much integrity. Anyway, this just confirms exactly what you said: He's a terrible human being.

I've long had misgivings about Perez. I mean, he's a gossip blogger, fer chrissakes, so we can't expect him to have too much integrity. Anyway, this just confirms exactly what you said: He's a terrible human being.

I couldn't agree more, Alex. The idea that the "f" word is worse than the "n" word is ridiculous and it's a shame that The Advocate highlighted his antics. The Advocate, which has an atrocious record when it comes to covering issues important to gay people of color, would do well to start featuring cover stories about people that matter versus stories about people who make the community look like a bunch of dolts.

Serves you right, Perez, for screwing around with Fergie and will.i.am. And had you ended up with two black eyes, I wouldn't have an gram more sympathy.

Gay, straight, or whatever, this jerk deserves to land in the dustbin of obscurity. And if only we ignore him from here on out, that's exactly where he will end up.

I won't go into Hilton. I've done it enough. What I WILL say though is that when I saw him on the cover of the Advocate I lost any and all potential respect for the mag. Simple as that. Anything that claims to be on our side, but would give him the time of day, is lying through its teeth or else is incredibly stupid. Either way, it needs to be fixed. This is a man who needs to shut the hell up before he destroys our community from the inside...and yet here they are giving him MORE attention.

Never thought I'd quote Charlie the Unicorn but 'shun' is the only useful option towards him and anything on our side that offers him the time of day.

The Advocate and Out and all of those lost my respect years ago when a travel piece said that the best place to have public sex at Disney World was in the hall of Presidents. That to me was when any hope I had of the gay press went completely be the wayside.

I think that too much of the gay press is caught up in queering up the corners of the news that we lose sight of the fact of why people of color and LGBT people are so stigmatized: People hate and fear what they don't understand.

I really hope we can get past our differences and move toward equality for all, and issues of social justice. I walked door-to-door for Obama last year in what could be called black neighborhoods. I was way out of my comfort zone, in all honesty, but after talking to a few people, it felt great to rise above my basest impulses of fear and doubt.

We really can be a better country, but we have to move beyond Perez, the f word, the n word, and other pejoratives and just get to know each other. We can't even think about getting along unless we are ready to talk to our neighbors.

I assumed Perez Hilton was a drag queen until the beauty queen incident, had heard of him but never knew anything about him.

Who cares. Another celebrity freak.