Editing Josh Homme (section)

===Legal issues and controversies===
[[File:Josh Homme mg 5688 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|Homme in July 2007]]
In 2004, Homme was arrested for assaulting [[Dwarves (band)|Dwarves]] frontman [[Blag Dahlia]] and Karl Doyle at the Dragonfly club in [[Los Angeles]]. Pleading no contest, he was ordered to remain at least 100 yards away from Dahlia and the club, sentenced to three years' probation with community service, and forced to enter a rehab program for 60 days.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lee|first=Chris|date=June 24, 2007|title=Queens' rough rider|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-24-ca-queens24-story.html}}</ref>

In June 2008, at the Norwegian Wood Festival in [[Oslo]], Homme drew criticism for his reaction to an audience member who had thrown a shoe at him.<ref>{{cite web|title=Josh Homme Wigs Out on Bottle Tosser at QOTSA Gig|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/51310-josh-homme-wigs-out-on-bottle-tosser-at-qotsa-gig|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217215202/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/51310-josh-homme-wigs-out-on-bottle-tosser-at-qotsa-gig|archive-date=December 17, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme bottles fan|url=https://www.nme.com/news/queens-of-the-stone-age/37399|magazine=NME}}</ref> He called the audience member a "chicken-shit fucking faggot" and "a 12-year-old dickless fucking turd".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Josh Homme (QOTSA) pissed off @ Norwegian Wood| date=June 14, 2008 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfZm32tpWY8| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211110/IfZm32tpWY8| archive-date=November 10, 2021 | url-status=live|access-date=December 22, 2019|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The incident drew accusations of [[homophobia]] from several blogs, which were later picked up by the mainstream media.<ref>{{cite news|last=Brown|first=August|title=Reporter's Notebook: Why doesn't Josh Homme's homophobic rant mean the end of Queens of the Stone Age?|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/soundboard/2008/06/reporters-noteb.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516214035/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/soundboard/2008/06/reporters-noteb.html|archive-date=May 16, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Josh Homme Bottles a Fan in the Face|url=http://www.spike.com/blog/josh-homme-bottles/65649|website=Spike.com}}</ref> Homme eventually responded in a public letter in which he denied all accusations of homophobia.<ref>{{cite web|last=Wirén|first=Patrik|date=February 26, 2004|title=Rogers blogg. Josh Homme lackar ur|url=http://rogertsblogg.blogspot.com/2008/06/josh-homme-lackar-ur.html|access-date=October 18, 2011|website=Rogertsblogg.blogspot.com}}</ref> Reaction to his apology was mixed, with music journalist [[Tim Jonze]] stating, "Attempting to prove his pro-gay stance, Homme points out in his letter that he also called the guy a pussy and threatened to have anal sex with him. OK, so it's a fuzzy kind of logic we're talking about here."<ref>{{cite news|last=Jonze|first=Tim|date=June 20, 2008|title=Josh Homme denies being homophobic|newspaper=Guardian|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/jun/20/news.culture2}}</ref> In an interview 10 years later, Homme revealed that he had often been beaten up during his youth while trying to defend his gay older brother from homophobic bullying.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rocca|first=Jane|date=August 18, 2018|title=Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme: What I know about women|url=https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/music/queens-of-the-stone-age-s-josh-homme-what-i-know-about-women-20180816-p4zxtu.html|access-date=January 16, 2021|website=Brisbane Times|language=en}}</ref>

Following a September 2013 performance at [[Jay-Z]]'s Made in America Festival, Homme made comments about Jay-Z during a radio interview with CBC Radio 2's ''Strombo Show''. He explained that his band was frisked by the event's security team prior to the performance and referred to Jay-Z's personal interaction with the band as a marketing stunt: "[Jay-Z] has his security frisking the bands on the way in. I just told them, 'If you open up my bag I'm not playing, so I guess it's up to you whether we are playing or not.' [...] He also gave us some champagne and wanted us to take a photo with it. And I thought, 'That's not a gift, that is a marketing tool.' So I destroyed it."<ref>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Sarah|date=September 17, 2013|title=Josh Homme has 99 problems and Jay Z is one|url=http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/36955/Josh-Homme-has-99-problems-and-Jay-Z-is-one|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920002800/http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/36955/Josh-Homme-has-99-problems-and-Jay-Z-is-one|archive-date=September 20, 2013|access-date=September 20, 2013|website=Faster Louder}}</ref>

In December 2017, Homme was captured on video kicking the camera of [[Shutterstock]] photographer Chelsea Lauren into her face during [[KROQ]]'s Almost Acoustic Christmas concert in Los Angeles.<ref name="NYDN-2017-12">{{cite news|title=Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme kicks photographer in head|language=en|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/queens-stone-age-josh-homme-kicks-photographer-head-article-1.3689638|access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref> After staying through the show and photographing subsequent bands, Lauren went to [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center|Cedars-Sinai]] for treatment.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Baltin|first=Steve|title=Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme Kicks Female Photographer in the Head – Variety|url=https://variety.com/2017/music/news/josh-homme-kicks-female-photographer-in-the-head-at-kroq-acoustic-christmas-exclusive-1202635338/|magazine=Variety|access-date=September 20, 2018}}</ref> In a statement, Homme claimed that he had been kicking over lighting equipment and was unaware that he had kicked Lauren until he was informed of it the next day. Lauren disputed this, stating that he had made eye contact with her before kicking her.<ref name="abc kick">{{cite news|date=December 11, 2017|title=Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age sorry for kicking female photographer in the face|work=abc.net.au|publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|url=http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-11/josh-homme-queens-of-stone-age-kicks-photographer-in-the-face/9245666|access-date=December 11, 2017}}</ref> Homme later issued a video response in which he admitted to kicking Lauren and apologized to her.<ref>{{cite web|date=December 11, 2017|title=Josh Homme: 'Truly Sorry' for Kicking Photographer Onstage|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/josh-homme-truly-sorry-for-kicking-photographer-onstage-w513724|access-date=February 1, 2018|website=Rollingstone.com}}</ref>