She then pressed the button on a succession of anti-gay Instagram rants which have also been deleted, notes the Pink News.Īzealia Banks Brushes Off Critics After Video of Her Yelling Homophobic Slur Goes Viralīanks took to Instagram earlier this year to rail against the double standards she felt apply to the words people use to talk about women and gay men.Īll I had to do was say one word and I moved a whole community. A video went viral last week in which Banks directed a homophobic slur toward a flight attendant on a plane, igniting a wave of protest… and support. It’s certainly not the first time Banks has caught the ire of the LGBT community.
Banks has since made it clear she won’t be backing down. “If I am to be a part of an LGBT community I want to be in it with people who aren’t so weak or so easily moved ya know,” she wrote in one tweet.