Joe Rogan is known to voice his opinions on a wide variety of topics on his world-renowned podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. The UFC commentator recently shared a story of how he grew up in a gay neighborhood, with his aunt smoking marijuana with naked men.
Speaking to guest Sam Tallent on episode #2175 of his popular podcast, Rogan noted that he lived in San Francisco from the age of seven through 11 before adding: “Yeah, so I lived in a fully gay neighborhood… Yeah, but we were in Haight-Ashbury, like that area. We were right off of Lombard Street so we’re in there, in like the mix of the whole thing. Like I could walk to Fisherman’s Wharf from my house. And so my neighbors were gay and my aunt used to, she would smoke pot with these gay guys and they would get naked and play the bongos.”
Rogan continued: “They would be like, ‘oh, she’s over there playing the bongos with the gay guys’. It’s like, ‘okay’, like it was so normal to me that it wasn’t until I moved to Florida that I even realized that people were homophobic and that was when I was 11.” Rogan shared that he had no idea people had an issue with gay people, adding that his aunt’s friends were normal guys who happened to be gay. He noted that it was normal as there were guys holding hands everywhere in San Francisco in the 1970s.
Rogan revealed that he wants everyone to be able to be themselves as that is real freedom. He praised the bravery of the gay community, noting that it is very likely to run into someone who is homophobic.
