YouTuber Logan Paul is no stranger to controversy. Paul found himself in hot water last year after a video, which has since been taken down, went viral featuring Paul laughing at a suicide victim in Japan’s “suicide forest” Aokigahara.
On Jan. 9, Paul made waves once again after announcing that he would “go gay” for the month of March.
On their podcast “Impaulsive,” Paul and his co-host Mike Majlak revealed that their New Year’s resolution of 2019 would be to try something new each month.
“It’s male-only March. We’re going to attempt to go gay for just one month,” Paul says.
The “resolution” caused a stir, especially in the LGBTQ community. Many spoke out about Paul’s harmful statement on Twitter.
YouTuber Daniel Preda, who is openly gay, called Paul’s commentary disgusting. “He continues to be an awful representation of the YouTube community & shows he truly has learned NOTHING over the last year,” he wrote.
Perhaps for the month of March instead of baiting the gay community you can use your massive platform as a voice for those LGBT+ who have no voice and resort to suicide and self-harm. Just a suggestion @LoganPaul
— Daniel Preda (@MisterPreda) January 11, 2019
GLAAD, dedicated to promoting understanding, increasing acceptance and advancing equality for the LGBTQ community, advised Paul “that’s not how it works.”
That’s not how it works, @LoganPaul. https://t.co/G0DbsQjdxf
— GLAAD (@glaad) January 11, 2019
Paul responded to the controversy by inviting GLAAD on his podcast via Twitter.
very poor choice of words… my fault. let’s get together and talk about it on my podcast next week? https://t.co/Ki8RKgMJOO
— Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) January 12, 2019
As of Jan. 16, GLAAD has not responded to Paul’s offer.
