Why are the gays loving Lisa Lampanelli?

Queen of Comedy Sleaze, Lisa Lampanelli, is featured in the July issue of Instinct Magazine with a tawdry article written by Lisa herself, explaining why gay men love her. Lampanelli is known for her outrageously racist, homophobic, sexist and everything-else-offensive-on-the-planet comedy — all while she is dressed in pearls and a June Cleaver dress. As Lampanelli herself might say, "what a f**kin' lady."

In the embarrassingly entertaining story, Lampanelli goes on a trashy jabber fest — spilling out "faggot" and other anti-gay epithets including “ass pirate” and “cornholin’’ — that’s a new one to me! Lampanelli somehow manages to lower the bar even lower than Kathy Griffin and Sarah Silverman combined, and in the process seems to be garnering a gay male following.

Kathy Griffin has said several times that she loves gay male audiences because we are extremely nonjudgmental and nearly impossible to shock. However, after reading the smutty article by Lampanelli I had to question, "Why do I find this woman hilarious? Why do I have her YouTube clips saved under my favorites? Should gay men question why we are attracted to straight women who talk so much about our community, but are not of the community?”

And then I thought, "If it's truly funny, should it even matter?"

I don't think that the vulgar Lampanelli is homophobic or racist. She is simply magnifying some of the most ridiculous stereotypes that exist in our incredibly judgmental American culture. She turns the mirror on the public and says, "Now do you see how stupid these stereotypes are?" Not to say Lampanelli is the Al Sharpton of comedy (maybe in weight and the loud mouth — okay, that was inappropriate!), but she seems to be cognitive of the social critique she is making; therefore, I -- and many other gay men -- love her.

Lampanelli sums up the reason why she feels the gays love her: “Gay people hate themselves as much as I hate myself — since we’re both abominations against God and man — so I insult them and they give me money. It’s the circle of life. Plus, I’m a living fulfillment of gay’s men’s fantasies: I get paid to say whatever I want, I bang black men and my clothes look fantastic.”

Be sure to check out the July issue of Instinct Magazine, which hits newsstands this weekend. And check out the clip below — but be prepared to be offended as this is definitely NSFW!