The other night while watching Hedda Lettuce's Live show on Instagram, my DM was going off several times. It wasn't till after Hedda's show ended that I saw they were from drag pal from Rehoboth Beach, Magnolia Applebottom, who had posted a screen shot of a Facebook post, of a patron in the Blue Moon where she performed Sunday night for a limited audience.
Yes, rather appalling and shocking I may add. Rehoboth Beach is one of my usual summer haunts, and is a pretty well known gay destination, not to mention has a huge gay population living there...as home owners and business owners. Very rare to see this goes on there. In the FB post, Bill Buckaloo, who is a assistant fire chief with the Lewes Fire Department, posted it while attending a performance of Magnolia's... and made the derogatory, anti-slur comment against the LGBTQ community, to describe the well known Magnolia during her show. Magnolia wasn't having it and has since circulated it on social media. From the news article-
The assistant fire chief with the Lewes Fire Department is suspended from his volunteer position pending an investigation into a homophobic comment he made on social media. In a statement, the Lewes Fire Department said it's investigating the matter and does not condone the comments The whole article can be found here.
But after seeing his post, Magnolia, not to be out done, responded on Instagram:
"What a sad turn of events...the @lewes_fire chief thought it was ok to go to a gay owned and operated establishment...and go to a show hosted and produced by a award winning gay entertainer and use that F word on social media... Your job is to protect the people in our community not bring us down. Do better!!! Be better!!! And we recognize your inappropriate behavior."
HERE HERE SIS!!!!!!!!
And she was right to stop this immediately in a town not known for this behavior. It must be called out, and we are in 2020! We aren't going anywhere!!! This is also a great use of social media too , I must say. After she posted it...it went through town like wildfire.
Ohhhh she DID that.
ReplyDeleteGood for her! And that poor imitation of a man. Did he think he was saving face by being such a homophobic dick? Really? Glad social media did some good. It's usually a cesspool of fuckery.
XOXO
Yep. It spread and the same night someone from the fire Department saw it. He was in quite for a surprise I suspect when he got to work.
DeleteGood for her! That's how you handle it. Call the person out; share their ignorance.I've got another F-word for Bill Buckaloo ... Fired?
ReplyDeleteLooks to be he will be fired.
DeleteYes, don't give haters a free ride.
ReplyDeleteCALL OUT THE H8...ALWAYS! SILENCE = ACCEPTANCE!
ReplyDeleteYes!!!! And We should get together REAL SOON!!!!
DeleteWOW. So glad the City took action right away. Whatta dick! And so odd. I mean, why tweet that? Like he didn't think someone would call him on it? Man, old white privileged men... SMH. In a way, I'm glad they are stupid so we can catch them on stuff like this... but on the other hand... they are stupid, so... meh. You can't help stupid. You can only call them out on their shit. Thank you for posting this. Sorry this happened, but glad that action was taken.
ReplyDeleteThat's just it! With the last four years with our great ass in chief, he let it be alright to say anything and let it be shown bigotry could reign supreme with no consequences. Well, hopefully we can swing the pendulum back the other way now. And Magnolia is great...and not to be trifled with.
DeleteYeah, his ass is gonna be fired.
ReplyDeleteShe is a gorgeous creature!!!! Bravo to her! I just hope with the ousting of your evil ass in charge and the new come in...these people will see it's not cool to say thing like this and swifter turn around on this things will happen. I so blame him for showcasing it was alright to say horrid things.
ReplyDeleteOmg!!!! Yes. We read about this down here as we're still at our rental in Slaughter Beach!!!! I could have fell off my seat when I read it. It was in all the local rags. So glad swift action is being taken. William and I caught one of her show last year With Pamela Stanley. Magnolia is no doubt a hoot!
ReplyDeleteOh my, I had forgotten you were down there!!! I bet it's cold?
DeletePeople think that behavior os still acceptable because of the asshole in the WH and the rest of the fucktards who belong to that party of sycophants. It has to called out for the bigotry it is. Did this guy think a volunteer couldn't get fired? Well, I have news for him: "I've done plenty of firing of volunteers, ya schmuck. Hit the road."
ReplyDeleteMy goodness! Glad folks called him
ReplyDeleteout. Take care, xoxo :-)
Yes! Let the light shine into all the dark corners.
ReplyDeleteSigh. What is wrong with some people?
ReplyDeleteGood for magnolia!
I stand beside her.
I swear will we ever change??? Hope all is well Christina!!!!
Deletelet's not be fooled. these thoughts and ideas have always been around. People
Deletejust feel more free to be more open about homophobia and racism because
they have a leader whose slogan translates to make America a place to get back to being able to hate groups other than ourselves again. I guess like their leader they didn't get the memo that their leader and his agenda has been evicted.
Mark- shall we go and get front row seats for that?????? Hopefully when he leaves, we can get the country back on the right track again.
DeleteIt's amazing that this still continues.Mind blowing. And Magnolia is so stunning too.
ReplyDeleteStupid never sleeps. Glad to see that action is being taken. This bullshit is not being
ReplyDeletetolerated any longer.
Huge praise for Magnolia for handling that so perfectly! You'd think we'd be numb to this shit by now, but it still stings. So glad Lewes County has owned it.
ReplyDeleteLast I heard , Buckaloo has been demoted and suspended while they continue investigation. After his last stint of stripping to his underwear and pissing in the canal, not sure why he wasn't let let then. People are never going to change if we keeping giving them breaks.
ReplyDeleteA good story of standing up for what is right. Well shared
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