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" Alec Baldwin has apologized for a series of tweets that could be interpreted to be homophobic. He apologized to the New York City-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights group GLAAD.  \u00A9 WENN / MarmolejosWENN.com Alec Baldwin Baldwin wrote a letter insisting that his tweets had nothing to do with &amp;quot;issues of anyone&amp;#039;s sexual orientation&amp;quot;. The original posts came after newspaper reporter George Stark claimed that Baldwin&amp;#039;s wife Hilaria was tweeting at the funeral of Sopranos star James Gandolfini. The 30 rock actor, who has since deleted his Twitter account, called Stark a &amp;quot;toxic little queen&amp;quot; and threatened to &amp;quot;f**k up&amp;quot; the journalist. He also wrote: &amp;quot;If put my foot up your f**king ass, George Stark, but I&amp;#039;m sure you&amp;#039;d dig it too much. (sic)&amp;quot;  \u00A9 WENN / Apega/WENN.com Alec Baldwin with his wife Hilaria The apology, posted on GLAAD&amp;#039;s website, stated: &amp;quot;The idea of me calling this guy a &amp;#039;queen&amp;#039; and that being something that people thought is homophobic. A queen to me has a different meaning. It&amp;#039;s somebody who&amp;#039;s just above.  &amp;quot;It doesn&amp;#039;t have any necessarily sexual connotations. To me a queen, I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny. &amp;quot;It doesn&amp;#039;t have to be a definite sexual connotation, or a homophobic connotation. To me those are people who think the rules don&amp;#039;t apply to them.&amp;quot; GLAAD spokesman Rich Ferraro said that Baldwin&amp;#039;s language was improper and his tweets did not reflect his &amp;quot;history of actively supporting LGBT equality&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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