In a new podcast posted on Monday, Logan Paul defends his “going gay” comments after previously issuing a sort-of apology.
As we reported earlier this month, the controversial vlogger said he was going to “go gay for just one month” in March after he and co-host Mike “Hey Big Mike” Majlak said the two are going “sober and vegan” for January.
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Despite admitting on Twitter that he had used “very poor choice of words,” the YouTube star is now defending his comments in a new episode of his Impaulsive podcast featuring Josh Seefried, a former captain in the Air Force who is openly gay.
It all started when Seefried — a former co-chairman on the Board of Directors of OutServe-SLDN — thought Paul was trying to make a joke, but an unsuccessful one. That’s when Logan quipped:
“So if I want to hook up with dudes for a month in March, I can’t do that?”
Seefried asked:
“Are you making that as a joke, or are you being legitimate?… If you want to experiment with men, that’s a different thing than saying, ’Hey, I’m gonna go gay for a month,’ making a joke.'”
While Paul doesn’t believe “going gay” is a choice, he asked Seefried to “describe that action” if he did, in fact, choose to experiment with men. Seefried responded:
“It’s experimentation. You’re essentially maybe bicurious, and you want to explore your sexuality, and we need to support that.”
Seefried added that it can be “scary” for a public person to be open in such a way. Paul replied:
“It’s not even scary to me… Because sexuality is so fluid nowadays, I don’t think twice about talking about being gay. I don’t give a s**t. Being gay is cool to me, I think that it’s a very cool thing… It is incredibly courageous and noble if you are a gay person to come out and put your foot down and defy society and say, ’No, this is who I am.’… This hurts me because I am such a pro-gay dude.'”
Paul added:
“Does a poor choice of words, the way I misspoke, because of my ignorance on the subject… Does that warrant 140,000 people telling me to go kill myself?”
Later in the podcast, Seefried said that because Paul “realized [he had made] a mistake,” it’s up to him “to continue that action.”
Paul responded:
“Well, now I know. It’s very easy, because at the end of the day, bro, it’s just ignorance. It’s not, again, there’s no malicious intent.”
WATCH the full video (below):
[Image via Impaulsive Podcast/YouTube.]
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