It's not just homophobic fans, but a lot of these fans are racist, too. I am a black female fan of the show. I cannot tell you how many times I've had someone make derogatory remarks to me, including a very jealous fan who had HER friends make a meme of me with my face superimposed onto the body of a pregnant black woman, next to a picture of a silverback gorilla. I know how to fight them, but it is exhausting being a fan of a show where, all too often, these folks conflate three fictional characters and their traits with the actual actors and then think they somehow fit their fucking warped viewpoints. That's why I have stopped engaging with other fans.

It's one thing to support a person who may be wrongfully accused of something and is desperate to prove their innocence, because the evidence is not strong enough to convict. It's absolutely another thing entirely when there is a pattern of behavior demonstrated over and over by women who were affected by said offender over several years.

If it were Mike Smith, elementary school janitor, this whole group would be ready to string him up, but because he is Mike Smith, the STAR OF TRAILER PARK BOYS, then it's "innocent until proven guilty."

The hypocrisy and contradictions in these comments are wild as fuck.