"No one likes a gay minstrel show"

“And let me just say this I had this conversation with a friend about Johnny Weir and other people who have, who are out and proud,” Lemon said on CNN’s Newsroom program to host Carol Costello. “No one likes a gay minstrel show. So let’s just put that out there.”

Lemon said he was referring to “someone who is flamboyant and over the top and all of those it seems those are the people who get the attention but they don’t represent all of gay America.” He also emphasized that he was not saying anything bad about flamboyant gay people and that there was nothing wrong with that, in his opinion “Johnny Weir doesn’t have to represent all of gay people. Johnny Weir is fabulous. He is flamboyant. He is who he is,” Lemon continued. “I’ve met him several times. I really like him. And I think that we should be happy that Johnny Weir is Johnny Weir and we should leave people like John Becker if they want to be gay activists to be gay activists, people who actually do a really good job at it and just let Johnny Weir be Johnny Weir.”