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.
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 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.”
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