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Gay Star Sticks Up for Isaiah

Posted Jan 29th 2007 1:15PM by TMZ Staff

Tammy Lynn Michaels and Melissa Etheridge Not every gay star hates Isaiah Washington.

Lesbian actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, partner of rocker Melissa Etheridge, is the first (and only) voice from Tinseltown's gay community to come out and defend the "Grey's Anatomy" pariah. In her blog, Hollywood Farm Girl, former "Popular" star Michaels writes, in free-form quasi-poetical Rosie-verse, that the Washington she knows -- the one whose kids play with her and Etheridge's kids -- "is not that man," i.e., the hot-tempered Isaiah currently in treatment for anger management . Says Michaels,

he is not a bad man ...
i forgive his words,
because truth be told
i do not believe
the word
faggot
lives in his heart

Washington can use every bit support he can get. Last night, his co-star Chandra Wilson referred to him as "the other one in rehab," and reports are that he may be driving bigotry-target T.R. Knight off the show. And below, at a brunch before the Golden Globes, Washington appeared to enjoy (tolerate?) the attention of a new friend.
Isaiah Washington and new pal.

Tags: Isaiah Washington, IsaiahWashington, Tammy Lynn Michaels, TammyLynnMichaels

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1. Tammy, I adore your wife....so, I am going to try and be nice about this.....

It's not a matter of hate living in his heart, for me...it's more about the "acceptability" of it????

How it's condsidered "OKAY" for him to reference TR like that....but, it would have been a SH*T SHOW had the roles been reversed.....woud Shonda Rhimes have let TR stay if he had called IW a N*****????

I'm a lesbian.....and I don't HATE IW......I hate the double standard, his carelessnes....the fact that it was kind've over and done with....and then he BROUGHT IT UP AGAIN at the Golden Globes......it sets the WRONG tone......

We struggle every day too.....we've been held down for many years.....we've suffered and LOST gay people, to IGNORANCE.......

Posted at 2:38PM on Jan 29th 2007 by Great Dane

2. I AM SO-OOOHH SICK OF ALL OF THESE SO-CALLED GAY PEOPLE. FIND A FREAKING ISLAND OF YOUR OWN WITH A SYPHILLIS-CENTER AND AIDS CLINIC YOU GONNA NEED IT !

Posted at 3:37PM on Jan 29th 2007 by anti all of them !

3. yeah.....right Tammy!

just like Mel Gibson isn't anti-semetic & Michael Richards isn't racist!

Posted at 2:41PM on Jan 29th 2007 by elaine

4. LOVE Tammy Michaels and LOVE Melissa Etheridge. I wish she had a question/answer section on her blog like Rosie. Think about it Tammy!

Posted at 4:41PM on Jan 29th 2007 by Really

5. Talk about sweating the small stuff!!

Posted at 3:15PM on Jan 29th 2007 by amy

6. If you go to her blog, it says that he is a friend of her childs....that he's been to her home.....

AND MICHAEL RICHARDS HAS A BLACK FRIEND.....

AND MEL GIBSON MADE A MOVIE ABOUT JESUS "A JEW".....

Maybe IW saves his hate for homosexuals males, and is OKAY with lesbians....a lot of ignorant men are......

Posted at 4:03PM on Jan 29th 2007 by Great Dane

7. Maybe if called her a bull dog sleeze bag dyke...Maybe she would have a different "feeling."

Posted at 3:20PM on Jan 29th 2007 by bang

8. hollywood farm cow's "blog" doesn't take comments...probably because farm girls can't read...

Posted at 3:25PM on Jan 29th 2007 by bang

9. #6 get a clue.....

Lesbian sex is actually the SAFEST sex.....

Maybe you should try ram'n a dick in your ass......ignorant son of a bitch.....

Posted at 4:07PM on Jan 29th 2007 by Great Dane

10. Tammy, Tammy, Tammy,
WTF? He proved his feelings about Gays very well, thank you. Making the second comment at the Golden Globes was his way of saying "You don't like it? Well, here it is again" Time to fire his black ass.
And to #6- "So-Called" gay people? Maybe you need a little "rehab" too, since now all you need is to be an a**hole to get in.

Posted at 6:11PM on Jan 29th 2007 by Bob P

11. Isaiah would've been long gone if he was white!

Posted at 4:54PM on Jan 29th 2007 by bucky

12. Oh get off it, bitches!

The guy called the little guy a "faggot". That's it.

And that should be the end of the story - except that TR Knight is using it to try to raise his public profile and salary.

TR is a manipulator and you're all being suckered by him. Watch 'Ellen' again - he's ACTING like a little boy.

Sticks and stones - wtf ever happened to that?!

Stand up for yourself and have some dignity, faggots!
Don't run (fake) crying to Mommy Ellen when someone calls you a name.

Isaiah said "faggot" and TR Knight/TR's publicist saw an opportunity to exploit - it's that simple. And you're incredibly naive if you think otherwise.

Watch what TR does next if you don't think this is true...just watch.

Posted at 5:27PM on Jan 29th 2007 by Darby Daisywaver

13. What's up with lesbian celebrities blogging in haiku?

Posted at 5:51PM on Jan 29th 2007 by Miss FuzzCheeks

14. WHO RUNS THE REHAB CLINIC?? ANOTHER FAG.

Posted at 6:50PM on Jan 29th 2007 by anti-all of them

15. #16 - wtf are you talking about? Either "faggot" is a bad word or it isn't - you don't get to determine that gays can use it but no one else can.
That's 100% bullsh*t.
Language belongs to everyone.
If you want the word to lose the negative connotations the entire gay community should use it and encourage everyone else to use it, too.
That way it loses its negative power.
It worked with "Tory", "Whig", and recently with "Queer", and it'll work with "Faggot" - unless idiots like you keep promoting the ridiculous idea that the word can only be spoken by faggots.
That guarantees the word will retain its negative power.

Posted at 7:20PM on Jan 29th 2007 by Darby Daisywaver

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