These gays… they’re being horrible in real life!
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On Monday, Jan. 15, Jennifer Coolidge won her second-ever Primetime Emmy Award for reprising her role as Tanya McQuoid on The White Lotus season 2. During the season 2 finale episode, Tanya was famously alarmed by the gay men that she was considering to be her BFFs. They seemed to be planning her murder, which led to the iconic catchphrase “These gays, they’re trying to murder me!”
During her acceptance speech at the 75th Emmy Awards, Coolidge stayed on-brand with her sense of humor. “I want to thank all the evil gays,” she said in the speech, referencing the gay characters from The White Lotus that were seemingly trying to scam her and kill her. So, we couldn’t help but think… did some real-life evil gays feel seen, heard, and represented when they heard Coolidge thanking them for this Emmy?
Scroll through to find out which gays probably felt seen when Jennifer Coolidge thanked them on the stage of the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards.
George Santos
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A gay Republican, let’s start there. George Santos is and has always been a stunt queen accused of falsifying biographical information, using campaign funds for personal use, and several other claims involving lying and fraud. After being expelled from Congress, Santos is still out here trying to be a digital influencer, stay relevant, and make money off of his scandals.
Sherry Pie a.k.a. Joey Gugliemelli
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Best known by the stage name Sherry Pie, Joey Gugliemelli was cast in season 12 of RuPaul’s Drag Race and made it all the way to the top four. However, he was disqualified from the competition after multiple men accused Gugliemelli of catfishing as a casting director called “Allison Mossey.” Gugliemelli put these men through the wringer, reportedly asking them to record themselves in very sexual scenarios and even masturbating.
Bryan Singer
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Where do we even start with Bryan Singer? The director has been accused of sexual assault at various different points in time, like in 1997 (while filming Apt Pupil), in 2013 (at the premiere of Superman Returns), in 2017 (a rape case from a few years prior), and in 2019 (through an investigative piece in The Atlantic). If you open a dictionary, there’s a picture of Singer right next to the term.
Aaron Schock
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After spending years voting against LGBTQ+ rights as a Republican elected official and denying that he was gay in interviews that questioned his sexual orientation, the ever-hypocritical Aaron Schock started getting spotted in different scenarios attending gay events with other gay men. As his homosexuality was exposed to the public, some gays had the NERVE to thirst after him (because, you know, he’s a white guy with a symmetrical face and abs), but not on our watch! This gay man was very evil to the LGBTQ+ community for many years as a politician. Evil.
Joe Exotic
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Jose Exotic, best known as Tiger King, legally named Joseph Allen Maldonado, is a high-profile evil gay. People love focusing on the Carole Baskin of it all… which, weirdo vibes there for sure. But do NOT forget about Joe Exotic, who is also a horrible man accused of animal mistreatment and hiring two people to murder Baskin.
Christian Walker
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Christian Walker is not worth your time, but he is evil. A self-professed “infamous” influencer, Walker is a gay man who consistently spends his time on the internet pushing conservative agendas, anti-LGBTQ+ narratives, and being a “token gay guy” to a group of people that works against him (and all of us).
Santino Rice
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Santino Rice was already considered an “evil gay” when he first competed on Project Runway, but some viewers at least thought he was sassy and funny. As a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race between seasons 1 and 6, however, Santino Rice went from telling plus-sized queens that they looked like large sofas to uttering microaggressions toward Black queens to giving out very, very mean critiques to the contestants. After leaving the series, Rice was then labeled an anti-vaxxer for firmly standing against the COVID-19 vaccine and citing the weirdest conspiracy theories about health issues.
Jeffree Star
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There isn’t a lot that YouTube star Jeffree Star won’t do for attention. In recent years, this has included a mind-blowing pivot to conservative audiences that includes living in a Wyoming ranch, regularly posing with insane-looking guns, and saying in a podcast interview that they/them pronouns are “stupid” — going as far as proclaiming the completely false statement that gender-neutral pronouns were created by the LGBTQ+ community during the pandemic because “people were so bored.” This coming from someone who has built an entire brand around subverting gender norms. Just… evil!
Kevin Spacey
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It’s hard to compare different levels of evil, but Kevin Spacey certainly takes the cake. This horrible man was accused by fellow actor Anthony Rapp of sexual misconduct that included getting 14-year-old Rapp drunk and making sexual advances toward him. When these claims escalated, Spacey issued a public coming-out statement as if the LGBTQ+ community would embrace or forgive him just because he came out. But that’s a big NOPE from us, dawg.
11 times J.K. Rowling did something wildly transphobic, ranked
J.K. Rowling attends day four of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse on June 20, 2025 in Ascot, England.
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For almost a decade now, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been spreading transphobia and has become the poster child for the UK’s troubling movement of TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). She has gone on transphobic tirades on social media, written a nearly 4,000-word anti-trans manifesto, donated some of her fortune to anti-trans causes, regularly misgenders trans women, and gleefully celebrates every time the transgender community has their rights stripped away.
The author, once revered for creating an inclusive fantasy world where good triumphs over evil, let her LGBTQ+ fans down by consistently doubling down on her transphobic rhetoric. She has painted trans women as predators who are lying about their gender to take away women’s rights and enter women’s spaces under false pretenses. This dangerous vitriol has even caused many of the stars of the Harry Potter franchise to come forward and call her out for her anti-trans takes.
For queer and trans fans of Harry Potter, this abrupt turn was jarring and has undermined their love of a fictional world where marginalized groups are loved and fought for. But Rowling hasn’t just disappointed her fans by spreading her hateful views; she’s also done so in some of the most bizarre ways, leaving many people not just outraged, but scratching their heads.
11. Tone deaf Dolly Parton tribute
Rowling joined the world in mourning Dolly Parton by posting a tribute on X that backfired when the country music legend’s fans came out in droves to point out that Parton loved the LGBTQ+ community and wouldn’t have supported Rowling’s TERF views.
After Parton fans flooded Rowling’s comment section with messages like, “She certainly would have thought of you as a nasty, hateful woman. Nice little tweet though,” Rowling attempted to hit back after a user called her “a fucking monster” by posting, “Well, joke’s on you, because neither of us want Jolene to take our man.”
10. Accidentally wrote “f*ck up some TERFs” on a child’s drawing
Seemingly by mistake, Rowling replied to post on X about a nine-year-old kid’s drawing of Ickabog, a monster from her children’s book, by including text she likely meant to copy and paste elsewhere.
“I love this truly fabulous Ickabog, with its bat ears, mismatched eyes, and terrifying bloodstained teeth! In court, Wolf claimed the Facebook post in which he’d said he wanted to ‘f*** up some TERFs’ was just ‘bravado’. #TheIckabog.”
Internet sleuths figured out that in the post, Rowling was misgendering Tara Wolf, a trans woman accused of assaulting Maria MacLachlan, who was at an anti-trans protest in 2017.
9. Accused Olympic boxer Imane Khelif of being trans
When Algerian boxer Imane Khelif took home gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Rowling joined fellow wealthy bigot Elon Musk in spreading the rumor that the cisgender boxer was secretly a man, leaning hard into the ever-present transphobia and anti-intersex hate in women's sports.
Even after both Rowling and Musk were named in a criminal complaint filed with French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment,” Rowling refused to let it go and continued to post anti-trans posts accusing Khelif of lying about her gender.
8. Transvestigated another athlete
Less than five months after harassing Olympic boxer Imane Khelif for supposedly being trans, Rowling joined in on another transvestigation of a woman in sports when she accused cisgender Zambian soccer player Barbra Banda of secretly being a man — she is not.
Rowling took exception to the BBC naming Banda the 2024 Women’s Footballer of the Year. “Presumably the BBC decided this was more time efficient than going door to door to spit directly in women's faces," Rowling wrote on X.
7. Smoked a cigar to celebrate being a TERF
After donating £70,000 (roughly $88,200) to the anti-trans group For Women Scotland in 2024 to help them fight against a 2018 Scottish law that legally recognized trans women as women, Rowling celebrated in a ghoulish way when the U.K. Supreme Court decided that trans women aren’t considered women under the nation’s Equality Act.
Rowling responded to the court decision by posting a photo of herself with a drink in one hand and smoking a cigar with the other. While people like right-wing commentator Megyn Kelly commented “God bless you,” the post was also full of people slamming her for her cruelty in the face of people having their rights taken away. Pedro Pascal even called her out for doing “Voldemort villain s---" and referred to Rowling as a "heinous loser."
6. Accidentally turned herself into a meme
Rowling accidentally turned herself into a meme when she changed her profile pic on X to a photo that showed what looked like black mold-covered walls inside her mansion.
While the photo most likely shows wallpaper and not mold, users ran with it and began joking that the black mold had infected her brain as an explanation for her hateful anti-trans views.
5. Whined about being doxxed
On the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance in 2021, comedian Holly Stars, actor Georgia Frost and drag king Richard Energy protested Rowling’s anti-trans views by staging a demonstration and posting a photo holding signs in front of the author’s home near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Rowling took exception to her house numbers being visible in the photo and accused the “actor activists” of “doxxing” her in an eight-tweet rant on X. But is it doxxing if the information is already public? Rowling claimed she received “so many death threats I could paper the house with them,” but both of her residences are historical landmarks, and one even has its own Wikipedia page.
4. Wrote a transphobic character that sounds an awful lot like herself
Under her pen name Robert Galbraith, Rowling wrote The Ink Black Heart, where a character gets harassed and doxxed because of their transphobic and racist views.
Rowling claimed that the character wasn’t based on her own experience, despite Rolling Stone writing that the character is doxxed “with photos of her home plastered on the internet” and subjected “to death and rape threats for having an opinion,” which probably sounds pretty familiar to people who have been following the author’s anti-trans outbursts.
3. Called David Tennant the "gender Taliban"
Rowling called Harry Potter actor David Tennant and people like him the “gender Taliban” in a post on X after he spoke out at the British LGBT Awards, where he called transgender critics “a tiny bunch of little whinging f*ckers who are on the wrong side of history, and they’ll all go away soon” and said they are on the “wrong side of history.”
In response, Rowling leaned into hateful anti-trans rhetoric that conflates being transgender with being an abuser of women. “This man is talking about rape survivors who want female-only care, the nurses currently suing their health trust for making them change in front of a man, girls and women losing sporting opportunities to males and female prisoners incarcerated with convicted sex offenders,” she wrote.
2. Dared police to arrest her
Rowling spoke out against Scotland’s new hate crime act in 2024 by daring police to arrest her for misgendering trans women. The act criminalizes “stirring up hatred” regarding age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and variations in sex characteristics, which can result in a fine or a seven-year prison sentence.
Rowling then went on a lengthy tirade on X — something she is known for at this point — where she accused lawmakers of protecting trans women at the expense of “the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls.” She finished by telling the police to come and arrest her if what she wrote “qualifies as an offense” under the new law. “I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment,” she wrote.
1. Posted an upskirt photo
Rowling, who claims to be a protector of women and rails against trans women being allowed in women’s restrooms, targeted a transgender British podcaster who she disagrees with by posting an upskirt photo of her. Freda Wallace became Rowling’s latest target when she refused to engage with the transphobe online.
Rowling responded by misgendering Wallace and posting a photo of her originally taken by anti-trans activist and fellow transphobe Maya Forstater, from slightly below Wallace to show her upper thigh. Rowling said that Wallace refused to debate her but to prove she has “no hard feelings” she posted the photo of another debate. “I hear he left an indelible impression on the audience. And the chair,” Rowling wrote.