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Homophobia? While I agree that it's unnecessary and juvenile (it has no place here, even though I do love the word), I can't see any way in which this is homophobic, and I say this as someone who's very much not heterosexual.

I take the insult of "ass-clown" to be both a reference to jeffrey dahmer (a gay clown), as it is a juvenile rant wherein a teenaged boy makes it a point to insinuate that homosexuality is a bad thing while insulting somebody else. "ass-clown" isn't a reference to a clown's ass, it's a reference to a lifestyle.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ass%20clown

Given the urban dictionary definitions, your "lifestyle" usage is far less common and probably not the intended meaning of the phrase in this article.

The gay clown was actually John Wayne Gacy, not Jeffrey Dahmer.

nah, it just means you are acting like an ass and acting like a clown, like a dumb-ass, only making more of a fool of yourself.

What's the PC term .... GLBT-clown?

What?

Everyone has an asshole, but only ~%10 of us are queer.