Brett Easton Ellis's Rant in GLAAD

Tyler Coates  did a nice job breaking down Bret Easton Ellis's GLAAD rant:

"First things first: Bret Easton Ellis has a lot of important things to say here. In response to [recently out] Jason Collins, Ellis argues that the media brouhaha surrounding the athlete’s public coming out infantilized not just Collins but gay men worldwide. On the one hand, there’s the notion that Collins is a hero for being public about his sexual orientation; there have been plenty others (more conservative critics, of course) who seem to dispute Collins’ hero status. Ellis criticizes the conventional coming-out media narrative for being just as patronizing as it is empowering."

He goes on to mention Ellis's reluctance to "represent," which I actually agree with: no one should feel obligated to represent or fashion oneself into a role model. But with celebrity comes responsibility, like it or not, and public coming out narratives are still very new. It wasn't that long ago when Ellen's "I'm Gay" Time was deemed controversial by those in the media.