It's been a rough week for S.F. Newspaper Company president Todd Vogt. Not even a day after Vogt defended his company's decision to bring Michelle Shocked back to San Francisco for a free show during SF Pride weekend, the newspaperman has revoked his invitation and cancelled the concert.

After making a public apology via Twitter, Vogt gave the scoop on the cancelled concert to noted LGBT publication the Bay Area Reporter — a paper which Vogt and his partner Patrick Brown will soon own 49% stake in.

In an interview with the B.A.R. today, Vogt explained that he is "sick" over what went down over the past few days:

He said the intention had been "to shine a light" on "bigotry and hatred, and to have Miss Shocked apologize for her comments and perform for free. It was intended to be a healing and good will gesture, and it has turned into something totally, totally different. It was never, ever my or our intention to upset people or to anger them. To the contrary, we were hoping this would help everybody move on and not only provide closure but maybe a fresh start."

Vogt added, "It has been misread and misrepresented and misreported, but it's obvious that while our intentions were good, they definitely were misguided, so I feel terrible personally, and never, ever intended this outcome.

In a statement emailed to SFist and other local media outlets by the Weekly/Examiner/SFBG's online news editor this afternoon, Vogt said:

"I am officially canceling the plan to have Michelle Shocked come to San Francisco and perform a free concert and apologize for her recent anti-gay comments. I had hoped that her concert and apology would have held the performer accountable and shine a light on hatred and bigotry, but, unfortunately, it has not. Having Ms. Shocked stand in front of a San Francisco audience and perform her music was intended to help heal, but has only further angered and offended the community.

I sincerely apologize to all."

On Monday evening, continuing on to Tuesday morning, Vogt said on Twitter, "we all make mistakes," and everyone "deserves a second chance," before concluding with this baffling tweet:

In an earlier interview with the B.A.R., Vogt said he was insulted by the notion that he was promoting Michelle Shocked by providing her with a stage, an Op-Ed in the Examiner, an exclusive interview in SF Weekly and a spot in the annual Pride Guide. As readers, we should probably be insulted that the owner of four local publications (possibly more in the near future) doesn't consider this kind of across-the-board press coverage to be promotion. Maybe that's what Vogt meant when he admitted his intentions were "misguided."

Shocked has not yet made a statement about the concert cancellation, but she returned to Twitter today to claiming she never tried to buy an ad in the Weekly's Pride Guide and that either Vogt or CBS fabricated that information:

Vogt refuted this again in the B.A.R. interview today, saying she offered to buy an ad in the Weekly, but he "politely declined" unless his papers could have full editorial control over the content, which would also cost her $1,000. The ad was reportedly never sent in, but the concert moved forward. Vogt still maintains that the proposed date of the concert — the closing day of Pride Weekend — was purely coincidental and happened to work with a venue already lined up in Shocked's schedule. Pride officials, meanwhile, were outraged at the association and worked to make it clear the concert was not part of the official events.

Although the concert won't be happening, we have our doubts that Shocked would have used the opportunity to apologize anyhow. On her own tour page, she lists the June 30th free concert as "Free Bradley Manning!" and taking place at both Yoshi's (on Fillmore) and Howard and Beale Streets in SoMa downtown.

No word yet on what will happen with the Op-Ed the Examiner supposedly promised to her, but it seems like her interview with the Weekly may have fallen apart as well. As we noted yesterday, Shocked apparently refused SF Weekly music editor Ian Port's request to record their interview. Today she called it "a metaphor for dry humping" and expressed some modicum of disappointment that Port wouldn't do the interview via Twitter. Port, for his part, tells SFist we'll have to wait until next week's paper to see how that story unfolds.

Previously: All Michele Shocked, Todd Vogt coverage on SFist
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