TORONTO — Actor Alec Baldwin is in hot water again for allegedly making a homophobic remark outside his New York City apartment building Thursday.
According to TMZ, Baldwin called a photographer “a c***sucking f**” while yelling at paparazzi taking pictures of his wife Hilaria and their daughter Carmen.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) reacted quickly, tweeting: “It’s clearly time Mr. Baldwin listens to the calls from so many LGBT people and allies to end this pattern of anti-gay slurs.
“Mr. Baldwin can’t lend his support for equality on paper, while degrading gay people in practice.”
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The 55-year-old actor responded on Twitter by pleading ignorance.
“Rich Ferraro from @glaad informs me that c’sucker is an anti-gay epithet,” he tweeted. “In which case I apologize and will retire it from my vocabulary.”
In tweets he later deleted, Baldwin insisted he said “fathead,” not “f**,” and threatened to sue TMZ.
Baldwin also declared that anti-gay slurs are “wrong” because “they not only offend, but threaten hard fought tolerance of LGBT rights.”
He added: “I’m grateful to all of the ppl I meet + hear from who recognize that I would never say something to offend my friends in the gay community.”
But, the former 30 Rock star has a history of hurling anti-gay insults.
Baldwin called a man a “f****t” in 1992 for supporting the expansion of horse-drawn carriage rides outside Central Park. In 2011, he called a male Starbucks barista an “uptight queen” and a year later referred to a male journalist as an “English queen.”
In June, Baldwin called another male journalist “a toxic little queen” who would “dig it” if Baldwin stuck his foot in his “a**.”
Actor Maulik Pancholy, who played Baldwin’s loyal assistant on 30 Rock, recently publicly acknowledged he is gay.
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