‘Don’t use my image for your internalized homophobia,’ he wrote on Twitter on Friday (26 July). Simon Dunn respondsĪfter Simon Dunn became aware of the meme, he quote-tweeted it and called it out. Internalised homophobia is a disease x /2jqRfVl7csĪ Twitter user posted a screenshot of the meme after seeing a Facebook ‘friend’ of his share it. Someone (a gay man, no less) just shared this absolute fucking catastrophe on my Facebook feed and I hit delete so fast and hard I almost smashed my phone screen.

While characteristics they ‘do not respect’ being ‘Sexuality is the focal point of their existence’, ‘Rainbow flag everything and everywhere’, ‘Complains about straight people consistently’ and ‘Dresses like a clown to show the world how gay they are’. It lists characteristics of gay men that the meme’s creator ‘respects’, such as ‘Doesn’t force upon you the fact that they’re gay’. The 32-year-old former Australian team bobsledder slammed the meme that unfairly criticizes out and proud gay men. Simon Dunn became aware of a viral homophobic meme after people began tagging him in it on social media.