Weir on Being Excluded From Stars on Ice

I skate, I'm gay, I'm out and I know Johnny. Let me just say I can completely understand why he is not being included. Johnny is Howard Stern of the Skating World. He makes sure that every person thinks that gay men are all flamboyant oversexed perverts. On national television during the 2009 Nationals he started talking about how his room mate sleeps around and probably has a STD and how he has the hots for this straight guy who he can change. If a straight woman started talking like that she would be called a slut. If a straight man said something like that he would be a male male chauvinist. So why would we allow this from a homosexual? Being gay is not all about sex. Maybe someone should tell Johnny this.

Bitches please, who cares what Scott "One Nut" Hamilton thinks about anything? But I can see where this is ALL heading. "The Passion of the Christ, ON ICE!" LOL It would sell though. GAWD! Just how inbred is this f*cking country anyway? Oh, and did I read that right? Scott Hamilton is passing judgement about the MASCULINITY of other men? LMFAO! Maybe "Dingleberries On Ice" should get a f*cking clue about what century they're livinig in.

Quentin makes a really good point: what is wrong with the skaters who are joining this tour that they are willing to work for a discriminatory organization just as long as they benefit from it? Whatever happened to having integrity and doing the right thing, even if it isn't easy or convenient? Certainly the gay men like Eldredge and Abbott who are willing to put on a public show that they are straight just to be "acceptable" to this tour are hypocrites, but I don't think it ends with them. Sasha Cohen, Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, Joannie Rochette and others are just as culpable. I have to wonder if they would keep quiet and stick with a tour that discriminated against blacks or Jews. Why is it any more acceptable to tacitly support discrimination against gays with their participation?

WELL!!! NO More smuckers jam for me. To judge a gentle person/man, such as Johnny Weir not on his talent, but perceived life style as not "Family Friendly" is the very height of Bigotry, and bigotry is not, I repeat not "Family Friendly" Johnny Weir skates a program of grace, beauty, skill, and Talent, Talent, Talent. Hopes and dreams of many may have been dimmed or snuffed by these faulty judgments. Blood, sweat,tears, hard work, dreams and effort, maybe. First, you must pass the "Family Friendly Test". Rubbish and Bigotry, not a good example for good sports conduct. Many sports figures of today are overpaid bad examples, verging on hoodlum,still they trot out in the arenas,fields,rinks,and courts, over, and over again their x rated exploits in the news, radio, and t.v. Yet a graceful champion skater is judged Not "Family Friendly" How Dare You. NO more smuckers jam. MITAKUYE OYASIN (We Are All Related)

I find it sad that Johnny Weir has to face open bigotry and derision, even from skating fans, when he is displaying real integrity. There are other gay men on the SOI tour, but they have had to "prove" to Scott Hamilton and the tour sponsors, Smuckers & IMG Entertainment, that they can publicly present themselves as straight before being hired. Todd Eldredge's fake marriage is the prime example: he had a big wedding to a woman a few years ago & sold the photos & video to every entertainment TV show & magazine in the US. He was then rewarded with a full-time spot on SOI. That marriage was privately annulled within a few months, but that never made the news. Jeremy Abbott keeps his longtime romance with pair skater Drew Meekins very much on the downlow. It would mean a lot if any of the SOI skaters had the guts to stand up for truth & what is right, but they aren't going to publicly support Weir when they know it would cost them their jobs with SOI and the wrath of Scott Hamilton.

Name: raven Date posted: 3/13/2010 9:38:43 PM Hometown: Provincetown Comment: Johnny Weir takes my breath away when he performs. Most of the skaters on "Stars on Ice" do not even come CLOSE to the high caliber performances that Johnny Weir delivers over and over again. He has a gift and also the touch of perfectionism that makes his gift shine. I am NOT going to watch any more "Stars on Ice". They need to apologise publically (on their knees would be nice)to Johnny Weir. And Johnny: your response should be that you forgive them but will move on and have your OWN "fabulous" Ice Show. They will wish forever that they had not been bigots. I am not one of the people who has blinders on and think that just because it is the year 2010-"All is well" and that the bigots in America have been silenced by putting laws on the books. Bigots Flourish. We can SUE THEIR ASSES now and alot of us do just that. That would be another suggestion to Johnny as he puts together his Ice Show: get a lawyer and slowly but steadily SUE THEIR BIGOT ASSES!!! Get them where it hurts

Boring. Why do glitter queens think they are being "creative" when there's nothing new to see here?

Little girls around the world love him. Someone has to take them to his competitions--their moms, maybe, so how is that not family-friendly?

Johnny, while it will be hard work I think launching a tour on your own and making it "your vision" is absolutely the right thing to do! If anyone can do it you Sir certainly can and it will be phenomenal blowing away any other skating show out there! May I just add that Rando Productions in North Hollywood did some stuff for Madonna's two most recent tours, give them a shout for help with staging and audio/visual needs!

Just thought of something... this pic of him.. Is he channeling Klaus Nomi? Johnny Weir tarts for all!