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Lucian Piane apologizes for Twitter meltdown, blames ‘marijuana psychosis’
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Lucian Piane has apologized for his anti-SemiticĀ and racist Twitter rants calling them a symptom of “marijuana psychosis.”
Piane, 36, posted a series of offensive tweets in October and November including, “If Jews stopped the Holocaust victim shit we would all get along” and “If black people stopped being so ashamed of themselves we could call them n*****s and they would laugh. Backwards shit.”
The music producer and songwriter also attacked his longtime collaborator RuPaul calling him the āwisest n****rā he knows.”
In an Instagram post,Ā PianeĀ apologized for the tweets claiming that UCLA doctors diagnosed him with “marijuana psychosis” during that period. Piane says that he ingested 800mg of cannabis edibles to treat “full body pain” and “terrible fatigue.”
According to Piane, his illness caused him to withdraw as a judge on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and prevented him from working for almost a year.
“I am sorry to have hurt anyone along the way,” Piane writes.
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This John Waters interview has been edited for readability ā but perhaps not human decency
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest ā incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies ā the 1977 dark comedy āDesperate Livingā and his enduring 1988 musical āHairsprayā ā on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
āItās like getting an award,ā said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Bannerās website.
The Washington Blade held the seventh annual Pride on the Pier at The Wharf DC on Saturday, June 13.
(Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford)
The 2026 Lost River Pride Festival was held on the scenic grounds of the Lost River Farmers Market in Lost City, W.Va. on Saturday, June 13. Headliner Tom Goss performed at the festival and gave a second performance at the nearby Guesthouse Lost River.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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