Outspoken Rescue Me actor Denis Leary is back at running his mouth. First it was his attack on autism and now he has offended the gay community. In fact, gay magazine The Advocate is questioning his behavior in next month’s issue.
Leary has a book coming out called Why We Suck and the chapter that is causing the uproar is titled Matt Dillon Is a Giant Fag. Brandon Voss, who conducted the interview for The Advocate, demanded some answers. He asked Denis: “What gives you the right to use the “F-word?” Leary responded:
“I also have a chapter called We’d Hate You Even If You Weren’t Black. I don’t believe in the power of words. My parents came from Ireland, where the (C-word) is literally a word your mother and father would use to describe the weather or the car. ‘That (C-word)ing car won’t start!’ And I come from a Catholic background where the nuns were always telling you, ‘Don’t do this, don’t say this,’ so any time anyone tells me I shouldn’t say something, my reaction is, ‘Why not?'”
Leary called children with autism, “just stupid” or “lazy” or both. His detractors launched the website denislearysucks.com in response. What do you think? Will calling out Leary on his words make a difference? We think probably not.
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