--- title: Logan Paul Sparks Ire for Wanting to 'Go Gay' for a Month description: Logan Paul, an internet personality, has caused an uproar for saying that he wants to "go gay" for a month. canonical: https://time.com/5501582/logan-paul-go-gay-homophobia/ author: Tara Law article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-13T20:54:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:10.809Z og:title: YouTube Star Logan Paul Sparks Controversy for Saying He Wants to 'Go Gay' for a Month og:description: He was previously criticized for sharing a video of a suicide victim in a Japanese forest og:url: https://time.com/5501582/logan-paul-go-gay-homophobia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e3e923c5275e12f/698943318fd2ee380d35d930/logan-paul.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: C Flanigan—FilmMagic og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: YouTube Star Logan Paul Sparks Controversy for Saying He Wants to 'Go Gay' for a Month twitter:description: He was previously criticized for sharing a video of a suicide victim in a Japanese forest twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e3e923c5275e12f/698943318fd2ee380d35d930/logan-paul.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # YouTube Star Logan Paul Sparks Controversy for Saying He Wants to 'Go Gay' for a Month > Sponsored content. 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A YouTube star with millions of teenage followers is facing waves of criticism after he and his friends filmed themselves making jokes alongside the body of an apparent suicide victim in a Japanese forest_  by [Tara Law](https://time.com/author/tara-law/)  ## Tara Law Jan 13, 2019 8:54 PM UTC  SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 21: Logan Paul attends the annual Entertainment Weekly Comic-Con Celebration at Float at Hard Rock Hotel San Diego on July 21, 2018 in San Diego, California. (Photo by C Flanigan/FilmMagic) SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 21: Logan Paul attends the annual Entertainment Weekly Comic-Con Celebration at Float at Hard Rock Hotel San Diego on July 21, 2018 in San Diego, California. (Photo by C Flanigan/FilmMagic) Logan Paul  by [Tara Law](https://time.com/author/tara-law/)  ## Tara Law Jan 13, 2019 8:54 PM UTC Logan Paul, an internet personality with nearly 19 million followers on YouTube, has caused an uproar for saying that he wants to “go gay” for a month. Paul, who made headlines last January after sharing [a giggly video](http://time.com/5083807/logan-paul-youtube-suicide-video/) of a suicide victim in a Japanese forest, is best known for his goofy and laid back online persona. However, many people said that he went too far on his podcast, “Impaulsive,” last Wednesday. Logan, talking about his resolutions for each month of the new year, said that he plans to have a “sober, vegan” January and a “male-only March.” “It’s male-only March. We’re going to attempt to go gay for just one month,” Paul explained. Many people wrote on social media that Paul implied that being gay is a choice, and clearly does not take the threat of homophobia seriously. “That’s not how it works, @LoganPaul,” LGBTQ rights nonprofit GLAAD wrote on Friday. > [](https://twitter.com/glaad/status/1083850110830825476) Soon afterward, Paul apologized by responding to GLAAD’s tweet and inviting them on to his podcast. “Very poor choice of words… my fault,” he tweeted. “Let’s get together and talk about it on my podcast next week?” > [](https://twitter.com/LoganPaul/status/1083891606854332419) However, multiple people tweeted that Paul’s apology was merely a publicity stunt. User [@JDGunn](https://twitter.com/JDGunn), who identifies as LGBT, wrote, “This is exactly what that tool wants, everyone talking about him. This guy stays saying and doing these absolute horrid things as to stay relevant, be trending & the headline. What’s that old Hollywood saying..’There’s no such thing as bad press.’ Don’t be a sucker GLAAD.” > [](https://twitter.com/ArendRox/status/1084152220319281153) > [](https://twitter.com/JusticeHorn%5F/status/1083920045216952320) > [](https://twitter.com/JDGunn/status/1084010421659541505) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5501582/logan-paul-go-gay-homophobia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5501582/logan-paul-go-gay-homophobia/"},"headline":"YouTube Star Logan Paul Sparks Controversy for Saying He Wants to 'Go Gay' for a Month","datePublished":"2019-01-13T20:54:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:10.809Z","description":"He was previously criticized for sharing a video of a suicide victim in a Japanese forest","url":"https://time.com/5501582/logan-paul-go-gay-homophobia/","keywords":["Newsfeed","LGBT","entertainment","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e3e923c5275e12f/698943318fd2ee380d35d930/logan-paul.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara Law","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tara-law/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e3e923c5275e12f/698943318fd2ee380d35d930/logan-paul.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"C Flanigan—FilmMagic","caption":"Entertainment Weekly Comic-Con Celebration - Arrivals","creditText":"Logan Paul","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5501582/logan-paul-go-gay-homophobia/","name":"YouTube Star Logan Paul Sparks Controversy for Saying He Wants to 'Go Gay' for a Month"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"YouTube Star Logan Paul Under Fire After Filming Apparent Suicide Victim in Japanese Forest","description":"A YouTube star with millions of teenage followers is facing waves of criticism after he and his friends filmed themselves making jokes alongside the body of an apparent suicide victim in a Japanese forest","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vxaPFPN8/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-01-02T15:42:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vxaPFPN8.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5501582/logan-paul-go-gay-homophobia/","duration":"PT1M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5501582/logan-paul-go-gay-homophobia/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```