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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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IS LLG A HOMOSEXUAL PERSON “GAY” OFFENSIVE?

Gay Pri Month 2022 will feature march, paras and a rporate backlash that hurts gay rights and acceptance across the polil spectm. * a gay offensive *

"Gay", on s face, is not a rogatory term. It's typilly preferred by those to whom appli over the term "homosexual", the technil nature of which mak this state of beg sound like a munible disease or mental illns (which, as recently as the DSM-II, seventh edn, was, tegorized as a pathologil phobia of the oppose sex). Many advocy groups, such as GLAAD (Gay/Lbian Associatn Agast Defamatn) and terms they promote for e the media (such as LGBT) rporate this term, though this isn't to say the terms will always be acceptable for this reason; the group name often persists long after the words behd them have fallen om favor, to avoid the nfn of a rebrandg of the group.

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"Queer", an old slang term for gay men, and "fag"/"faggot", origally AE slang for a wimp or unmanly person, but which me to be associated wh the stereotypil "swishy" gay man, have bee si terms; still appropriate when ed by a ntral party or a "straight" person, but acceptable ntext between gay men. The difference between what means to be a gay person on the Right and a gay person on the Left is beg far more profound than mere polil disagreement.

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Although there is much discsn about the legimacy of gay nservativ, we often don’t articulate why we reject our socially assigned muny, or how difficult that separatn n sometim be. The very ncept of “gay” rights and activism to force a sexual revolutn is the basis of today’s liberalism. Gays did not beg by askg for marriage or to be viewed as everyday cizens; the movement grew om social rejectn and tentnal unter-culture behavrs and worldviews.

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