Rose McGowan apologizes for comments about gay men

Charmed star Rose McGowan has apologized for a statement she made on author Brett Easton Ellis' weekly podcast in which she claimed that gay men are  "more misogynistic" than straight men.

McGowan made the apology on Wednesday night in an op-ed in The Advocate. "I made a dumb generalization, and for that I apologize. For everything else I said, no, I will not," she writes.

McGowan, who appeared on the American Psychowriter's show in October, made her controversial comments during a discussion about an LGBT boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei. The despot of the tiny, oil-rich Islamic country on the island of Borneo announced in the spring that he'll start imposing sharia law there, which could make homosexuality punishable by death. Many celebrities have joined boycotts of his hotels, which include the famed Beverly Hills Hotel.

“You wanna talk about the fact that I have heard nobody in the gay community, no gay males, standing up for women on any level?” McGowan said on the podcast. "There is sharia law active in Saudi Arabia, there’s a woman who’s about to be stoned – I have not heard [AIDS activist] Cleve Jones discuss her, and nor will he. I think it’s what happens to you as a group when you are starting to get most of what you fought for? What do you do now? What I would hope they would do is extend a hand to women. Women, by and large, have very much helped the gay community get to where they are today."

Britain's The Independent reported McGowan's remarks.

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