GLAAD asks Perez Hilton to apologize for anti-gay slurs against Will.i.am

The Envelope - The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has asked Perez Hilton to apologize for slurs he hurled at Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. GLAAD was responding to a video posted by the celebrity blogger, whose legal name is Mario Lavandeira, in which Hilton gave his version of events after Will.i.am posted a video describing their recent confrontations at and after the MuchMusic Video Awards. Said Hilton in his video: “I made the split-second decision — that I was gonna say what I thought was the worst possible thing that thug [Will.i.am] would ever want to hear” — which was a handful of assorted F-bombs.

Rashad Robinson, GLAAD’s senior director of media programs, said: “These are vulgar anti-gay slurs that feed a climate of hatred and intolerance toward our community. For someone in our own community to use it to attack another person by saying that it is, quote, ‘The worst possible thing that thug would ever want to hear,’ is incredibly dangerous. It legitimizes use of a slur that is often linked to violence against our community. And it sends a message that it is OK to attempt to dehumanize people by exploiting anti-gay attitudes.”

“We have reached out to Hilton and asked him to apologize for promoting this anti-gay slur, and we would ask media outlets to avoid repetition of the slur in their coverage of this story.”

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Meanwhile, TMZ has just obtained video footage of the heated confrontation between Perez Hilton and Will.I.Am — in which Perez can clearly be heard calling the Black Eyed Pea a “f**king f*ggot.”
The footage begins in the middle of the verbal altercation outside an after-party for a music award show in Toronto — moments after Hilton claims Will went after him like a “heat-seeking missile” and unleashed a verbal tirade at him.With a crowd surrounding Perez, Will and Will’s manager, Polo — the guys argue back and forth for about a minute, until Perez tells Will, “you’re not a f**king artist … you’re a f**king f*ggot.”
The scene suddenly turns chaotic — and in the mess someone punches Perez in the face.On a video blog on his website, Hilton claims Will’s manager hit him “two or three times.”
Will also posted a video blog saying he never hit anyone.

See it here…

footage of altercation…