Taylor Garrett, a gay Republican cast member on Logo’s The A-List Dallas, alleged on Twitter last week that he’d been the victim of an apparent gay-on-gay hate crime.
“My place is nice and breezy now thanks to a liberal!” Garrett wrote in a tweet containing links to the photos above and at right.
One person asked Garrett on Twitter why there’s no record on the Dallas Police Department’s website of him filing a report about the incident.
Garrett responded that there are “plenty of reports,” but he has failed to produce one or provide any further details since then.
Garrett’s initial tweet about the incident was later removed from Twitter. Also deleted was a message to Garrett from Logo executive producer John Hill, congratulating him for “making headlines.”
The story was eventually picked up by The Huffington Post.
Blogger Joe Jervis at Joe.My.God., who broke the story, is convinced the whole thing was a publicity stunt in advance of tonight’s premiere of The A-List Dallas.
If so, we’d have to say it worked.
Dumb publicity stunt confirmed buy and idiot producer congratulating him. Logo should be ashamed.
Well, publicity stunt or not, at least that rock is smarter than this idiotic, deluded “gay republican.” This guy is an embarrassment, not only to gay people, but to Texans in general.
What do you expect from a guy who carved his ex’s initials into his arms when they broke up?
Well, yet another reason not to watch this mess. What a shame they are trying to “represent” the GLBT community in Dallas. I want to puke!
Did he think typing the note would prevent anyone from identifying his handwriting?
i came out in Dallas in the 1980’s, and have lived from NYC to SF, Vegas and in between over the years, and I returned here to live 3 years ago because I was proud to live in this Gay community, but to see this show last night, I am shocked to see such a embarrassment to our community. This is not depicting “us” in a good light.
How come the blinds are still intact? How come it’s almost a perfect circle yet the shape of the rock is different?
He just did an interview with HuffPo to respond to the critics, and his latest account of the shattered window doesn’t match the picture of the photo shown above. Was his original account a lie or only the latest version? This sounds like a disgusting hoax. The show and the entire network should be boycotted.
If it was a publicity stunt, Mr. Republican has just committed a Class B Misdemeanor by filing a false report. Who calls the police to have his name publicly added to a report so that his name and address are posted on the Dallas Police website? What a douche.
I would guess the blinds are still intact, because because the smartest thing he’s done was open them before he threw the rock…just from the comments I’ve read here, and on a few facebook pages…I’m glad that I have had no desire to watch this mess – one comment that stood out .. was why did LOGO bother to do casting calls? when they put a group of 5 “a list” Dallas gays that have all f*cked one another at one time on the show….good point…wouldn’t it be more interesting to put 5 strangers on it, and mix them into each others circles…who cares otherwise…
A good friend of mine “auditioned” for this show. He is a great guy and real activist in our community. He is only in his early thirties. They told him they could not cast him because he is HIV positive.
This is nuts! So these guys are “A-List are they”? When was getting stupid drunk, calling each other names, talking about how hot you are, or how jealous you are that the other one is screwing another person, A-List? I know some A-List people, and I can assure you they do not act like this. As for not being cast because someone is HIV positive. Why wouldn’t LOGO cast him? In our gay community, I thought we were all about loving one another and bringing us all together regardless of age, sex, weight, positive or negative status…I thought being gay was about love, compassion, and understanding. This show makes everyone in Dallas looks like complete douch bags!! And it’s not fair to those of us that do not act like complete ass bags!
I can see how everyone is upset about the way the show started. We are all very comfortable in out community here in Texas, but I did go to the casting call and took my self out of the cast. I think that it is important to think about our own friendship circles prior to casting stones. This is TV folks if it was not full of drama and LIES then it would not sell. I think that sites like this only strengthen the show and will insure that there will be season after season making these people famous. I hope that this guy did not lie about the rock and I hope that all the cast members will be safe here in Dallas.
This is the biggest joke that network television has ever pulled. Calling the shows “A-list” is the first rediculous notion. I won’t bother to comment by name, one at a time, so i will just condense it and call them all “trash”. If this is A-List, then i am really something special because i would’nt give a #$%^ how much money any of them has, they could’nt pay me to hang out with this crew.
After the initial A-List I would think there would be more self-awareness. Do the cast members not look at what they are dispensing on TV? As a 44 year-old gay male who has been “out” for more than half my life, I have never experienced anything like this in the gay community. I know there is some drama but how can these guys be friends when the are so ugly to one another? I watched for the first time last night and am disappointed just like I was with the original cast. I hope they find out what truely makes them happy and learn that being drama fabulous is unattractive.
No one on this show is a-list they are all fake and non of them have money. James Doyle dose not even have a place to live here in Dallas. He muches off people with money and couch serfs from location to location. None of them have any money at all. its really sad I wish that there would have been some kind of back ground checks done but then again this is for tv so it is all about the looks and the drama.
All I have to say is a show about normal happy gays without drama would be boring as hell
Just like the people in “Most Eligible Dallas,” these people are plastic and the type of people that give Dallas a bad name, and it’s why I chose to remain single.
Damn shame that Logo considers being A-List is just having a lil $? .and now theyre bring Anne Cultor on the show are you freaking kidding me..sad that the gay community would get slaped the face by a so called gay network..
That’s the thing, Tracey, it’s NOT a gay network. It’s owned by Viacom and is run by straight people who have a very warped idea of what interests the LGBT community.