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GLAAD to Train WWE Talent after CM Punk's Anti-Gay Incident?
GLAAD is in discussions with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) to train its on-air talent, including its performers, following another anti-gay outburst by a WWE personality over the 4th of July weekend.
At a live WWE event in Australia, wrestler CM Punk was caught on camera directing an anti-gay slur towards a heckler. While the show was not broadcast, that doesn’t excuse his remarks. On his Twitter account, the wrestler actually thanked the TMZ website for airing the video and apologized for what he’d said.
WWE told TMZ: “WWE does not condone this type of language or bias and we reinforce that with our talent who are independent contractors.”
As for how this fits in with our ongoing work with WWE, GLAAD provided training to members of WWE’s editorial staff and writing team in May, but because this event was not intended to be televised, and it took place during an unscripted interaction with the audience, none of the people we had already trained were involved. As a result, we are now in discussions with WWE to provide trainings to its on-camera talent, including the wrestlers themselves.
WWE officials also told GLAAD this morning that CM Punk’s contract will expire in a few weeks, he will not be immediately renewed, and he will no longer be with WWE as of July 18. A spokesperson told us “this departure is not part of a storyline. He is contractually leaving the organization.”
A spokesperson for the WWE told us “We are taking this very seriously.”
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Comments
That's it.
I don't hate gay people. Never have. My parents had friends who were gay. Good men, and I was exposed to this at an early age. When I met gays as I was growing up, I always treated them with courtesy and respect.
But if I had known it was the will of all gay people to silence me, and to be hypersensitive about every little thing, then I would have hated them and I would have NEVER given them any respect.
GLADD is the epitome of everything that is wrong with this country today. Politically correct hypersensitivity needs to be eradicated by any means necessary.
Not ALL gay people
It's not the will of all gay people to silence everybody else. I'm gay, and I think that you have just as much a right to call someone/something gay when it pisses you off as I have to call someone an asshole when they piss me off.
One thing, as a gay guy, I can't stand are hypersensitive queens who have nothing better to do than get their panties in a bunch over the fact that someone used the word gay in a context that they didn't like. These days, if you say something a gay person doesn't like, you're vilified as a homophobe, and my biggest problem is that it stops real homophobes from being vilified at all.
It's not just me either, I know so many gay guys that think like this, but unfortunately because we don't fit the gay stereotype, nobody gives a damn and thinks that we're just ignorant.
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