The Tracy Morgan saga continues, after his offending June 3 stand-up act that drew nationwide attention.
On June 13 Morgan talked with representatives from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and agreed to partner with them and another GLBT organization, according to the GLAAD website.
Morgan will work with GLAAD’s Amplify Your Voice PSA campaign, and also plans to meet with LGBT youth.
Later this week he is set to meet with people who have dealt with homophobia, including LGBT youth from the Ali Forney Center, who have been hurt or left homeless due to homophobic parents, and Elke Kennedy, the founder of Sean’s Last Wish. Elke’s son Sean was harassed and beaten to death in a homophobic attack at the age of 20.
Morgan also offered to return to Tennessee, where he performed the original stand-up act to apologize to audience members who were offended.
He told GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios and other staffers, “I know how bad bullying can hurt. I was bullied when I was a kid. I’m sorry for what I said. I didn’t mean it. I never want to use my comedy to hurt anyone. My family knew what it was like to feel different. My brother was disabled and I lost my father to AIDS in 1987. My dad wasn’t gay but I also learned about homophobia then because of how people treated people who were sick with that.”
His anti-gay Nashville performance garnered negative responses from audience members. In it he reportedly said that if he had a gay son, he’d stab him. According to audience members, he also called made light of GLBT bullying and claimed that being gay is a choice.
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