Faggots, punks, and prostut: the evolvg language of gay men

gay fagots

Faggot is an offensive slang term for a gay man. Though origally (and more harmlsly) meant "a bundle of sticks," the word faggot should be ed very refully or avoid pletely.

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FLEMG’S FAGGOTS, GAYS AND QUEERS

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Joe Jackson’s 1982 h Real Men was the first time I had heard gays referred to as faggots.

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The meang of FAGGOT is a gay person—ed as a term of abe and disparagement. * gay fagots *

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Faggot, often-nsired a slur, has been reclaimed many tim over by gay men, cludg a new play by Declan Greene, The Homosexuals, or “Faggots”, currently showg at the Malthoe Melbourne.

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Flemg’s faggots, gays and queers — Licence to Queer.

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