And In Other Perez Hilton News: The Advocate Advocates For Perezito

So we said it before: Perez Hilton? Is pretty racist. We said this because Perez, in a video rant ostensibly aimed at providing some sort of justification for having called Will.i.am a “faggot,” referred to the singer as a “that thug” in a way that we found rather racialized. We don’t think he would have used that particular word if Will.i.am - who is not “thuggish” in the least - had been anything other than black. In their cover story on the Queef of all Mierda, The Advocate pretty much confirms our suspicions about Perez’s attitude towards black people. Their interview was conducted the whole Faggotgate incident, but they reached Perez for comment about it before going to print.

Here’s what Perez, ever the wise and measured philosopher, had to say:

“I thought about calling him the n word,” he says over the phone a week after the incident, “but I thought the f word was even worse. I was so filled with hate at that moment because I was hated on so much, and I reacted in the worst way possible.”

Note that he admits to reacted “in the worst way possible,” yet makes no effort to explain or apologize his initial inclination to use a race-based slur against a man who asked him, perhaps rudely, to stop writing about him and his bandmate.

Other things we learned about Perez? He’s got a healthy approach to life:

Japhy Grant, a writer who attended Tisch with Perez, remembers him as being more interested in celebrities than anyone he had ever met. Both Perez and Grant dreamed of making it big in Hollywood (Perez as an actor, Grant as a screenwriter), but when Grant moved to Los Angeles after graduating, he found an angry and depressed Perez who rode around town on a bike because he couldn’t afford a car.

“The city was being really brutal toward him at the time, and you could tell he wasn’t happy,” Grant says. “He was on that VH1 show From Flab to Fab, and he was scarfing down laxatives. He was really struggling for direction, and one day I said, ‘You should start a blog.’ He was, like, ‘What’s a blog?’” (Perez and Grant are no longer friends. In a scathing 2006 Salon.com article criticizing Perez for his outing of gay celebrities, Grant called him “a crass, self-serving marketer disguised as an ideologue.”)

He’s really gay, but not that gay:

 “Nothing. I love being gay! I’m gay. I suck cock. I went on this date the other night with this guy who said he didn’t like sucking cock, and I was like, ‘Excuse me? I don’t have time for you.’ I’m gay. I’m very gay. And I like sucking cock. A lot. Put that on your cover!”

And he’s just all around a fairly awesome guy. What’s not to love?

The Real Perez Hilton [The Advocate]