Following an argument with will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas Sunday night at a Toronto nightclub, Hilton alleges that Peas manager Liborio "Polo" Molina punched him repeatedly outside the club.
Hilton, who is openly gay, admitted in a video blog posted Monday that he had called will.i.am by an anti-gay slur. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation released a statement on Monday afternoon condemning his use of the slur, to which Perez responded by saying that GLAAD had "victimized him further by criticizing [him] for how [he] non-violently dealt with a very scary situation that, unfortunately, turned violent."
Now, Hilton has followed up with yet another statement, this one almost 600 words long, which reads, in part, "The other night in Toronto, after feeling physically threatened by a verbally abusive will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, I chose the most hurtful word I know to hurl at him. I was in an out-of-the ordinary situation and used a word that I would not utter under normal circumstances."
He also pointed out, "Clearly, I am not homophobic. Also, I am not nor have I ever claimed to be a spokesperson for the gay community. I am just speaking for myself, a gay man. One who is labeled 'flamboyant' in the media. An American that is not granted equal rights under the law. I will continue to speak out for equality and I will continue to say things that upset both gay people and straight people."
In the statement, he also continued to stress that violence is never the answer.
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And you stress that violence is not the answer? Are you unafraid of what the hurt fans of Will.I.Am are going to do to you? Are you that stupid? You claim to be fighting for equality yet continue to dish out insults to other people and to your own "kind?"