Xbox Live gamer spend for sayg he liv Fort Gay

Microsoft Corp. spend a gamer om Fort Gay, , bee the name of his town vlated Xbox Live's of nduct, which nsirs the term "gay" offensive.Acrdg to the Associated Prs, Microsoft and Xbox Live refed to acknowledge that the town's name is real, even when ntacted by t... * fort gay microsoft *

Mr Moore claims that, although he wasn’t gay, he felt as though Microsoft were discrimatg. The Wikipedia article on Fort Gay claims that Fort Gay was origally chartered as ‘Cassville’, but renamed to Fort Gay 1932 – most probably to differentiate om another Cassville Wt Virgia. 8, 2010, 8:02 PM UTCby banng all exprsns of sexualy she intified herself as a lbian Microsoft nixed that policy new policy "You may e the followg terms to exprs your relatnship orientatn your profile or Gamertag: Lbian, Gay, Bi, Transgenr, Straight.

MICROSOFT APOLOGIZ TO FORT GAY RINT

Microsoft has apologized to a 26-year-old gamer after spendg him om Xbox Live bee his onle profile listed "Fort Gay" as his lotn. * fort gay microsoft *

This clus, of urse, any e of the word “gay, ” apparently even if ’s simply the name of the town which a er liv. That’s what one Xbox Live er, Josh Moore of Fort Gay, WV, found out when he clud the name of his hometown as part of his Xbox Live profile. Microsoft officials spend him om g Xbox Live and threatened to ban his acunt entirely, wh no refund for the two years of service he had paid for advance, if he didn’t take the word “gay” out of his profile.

MICROSOFT WHO SPEND GAMER OM FORT GAY WV, APOLOGIZ

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“Someone took the phrase ‘fort gay WV’ and believed that the dividual who had that was tryg to offend, or tryg to e a pejorative manner, ” Stephen Touloe, director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live, told the Associated Prs.

For his part, Moore was apparently surprised, though those who are aware of Microsoft’s current policy regardg homosexual ers may not be. “At first I thought, ‘Wow, somebody’s thkg I live the gayt town Wt Virgia or somethg.

… It mak me feel like they hate gay people, ” Moore told AP.

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Microsoft, Xbox Live Apologize to Gamer Spend for Declarg He's om Fort Gay - Even Though Town is Real * fort gay microsoft *

“I’m not even gay, and mak me feel like they were discrimatg. Gay ers who are proud of who they are shouldn’t be treated the same as ignorant yokels who throw around abive terms like ’s their job.

MICROSOFT SPENDS XBOX GAMER FOR LIVG FORT GAY

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If only they uld drop the ban hammer on all the 12-year-olds yellg gay slurs at one another every Morn Warfare 2 match, they wouldn’t need to enforce such discrimatory polici. Microsoft has been ught out for misguidly banng an Xbox Live er who clared he me om "fort gay WV" - a real place. "At first I thought, 'Wow, somebody's thkg I live the gayt town Wt Virgia or somethg.

It mak me feel like they hate gay people. "I'm not even gay, " he add, "and mak me feel like they were discrimatg. Moore tried to expla to an MS ctomer service rep that "fort gay WV" was a small muny of around 800 people Wayne County, along Wt Virgia's wtern borr wh Kentucky.

Even the Fort Gay mayor, David Thompson, got volved. But he was told the place name didn't matter, bee e of the word "gay" was appropriate any ntext.

MICROSOFT BANS XBOX LIVE ER FOR LIVG FORT GAY

Microsoft's said a cisn to ban an Amerin man om Xbox Live bee he liv a town lled Fort Gay was a "mis… * fort gay microsoft *

"Someone took the phrase 'fort gay WV' and believed that the dividual who had that was tryg to offend, or tryg to e a pejorative manner, " Touloe explaed.

Spend a gamer om Fort Gay,, bee the name of his town vlated Xbox Live's of nduct, which nsirs the term "gay" offensive. Acrdg to the Associated Prs, Microsoft and Xbox Live refed to acknowledge that the town's name is real, even when ntacted by the mayor of Fort Gay. "Instead, they spend his gamg privileg for a few days until Moore uld nvce them the lotn his profile, 'fort gay WV, ' wasn't a joke or a slur: It's an actual muny of about 800 Wayne County, along Wt Virgia's wtern borr wh Kentucky.

""At first I thought, Wow, somebody's thkg I live the gayt town Wt Virgia or somethg. It mak me feel like they hate gay people, " Moore, an unemployed factory worker who plays the gam Medal of Honor and Call of Duty unr the gamer tag Joshanboo, told the AP.

MICROSOFT APOLOGIZ FOR SPENDG 'FORT GAY' GAMER

"I'm not even gay, and mak me feel like they were discrimatg. Change the cy name to Fort Gay and the state to Wt Virgia–an actual place suated between the Tug Fork and Big Sandy Rivers wh a populatn of around 800–and you wd up wh Microsoft, egg on s face, apologizg for banng Josh Moore, a proud rint of the perfectly real Wt Virgia cy. Instead of verifyg whether the town’s name was real by, you know, takg five sends to Google , Microsoft spend Moore om LIVE for several days–until he managed to nvce them Fort Gay was really a town Wayne County, Wt Virgia, near the state’s borr wh Kentucky.

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… It mak me feel like they hate gay people, ” Moore told AP News.

Moore attempted to rolve the suatn by ntactg ctomer service, but was warned off g the name–even after askg the rep to Google Fort Gay’s zip .

MICROSOFT SPENDS GAMER OM FORT GAY

The town’s mayor David Thompson got volved, but was reportedly told by Microsoft that the veracy of the cy’s name didn’t matter, and that the word “gay” was appropriate regardls. Weirr still, Microsoft recently updated s Xbox LIVE of nduct policy to allow gamers to e sexual orientatn intifiers like lbian, gay, bi, transgenr, and straight their Gamertag or profile.

MICROSOFT REGRETS BANNG XBOX LIVE USER FROM FORT {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}GAMGBY BRIAN WARMOTHSEPTEMBER 8, 2010/3:00 PMBY BRIAN WARMOTHSEPTEMBER 8, 2010 / 3:00 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"MICROSOFT REGRETS BANNG XBOX LIVE USER FROM FORT GAY","DATEPUBLISHED":"2010-09-08T19:00:27.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2010-09-08T19:00:27.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"BRIAN WARMOTH","ARTICLESECTN":"GAMG"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MICROSOFT STEPPED TO ALTER THEIR CO OF CONDUCT EARLIER THIS YEAR AND FALLY ALLOW XBOX LIVE ERS TO INTIFY AS GAY THEIR PROFIL, BUT THAT CHANGE STILL LEFT A BAN PABLE OF TCHG 26-YEAR-OLD FORT GAY, WV RINT JOSH MOORE. HE GOT THE BOOT LAST WEEK, BUT THE PEOPLE AT XBL HAVE SCE SEEN THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS AND REVERSED THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MICROSOFT'S AGENT MA A MISTAKE, XBOX LIVE CHIEF ENFORCEMENT OFFICER STEPHEN TOULOE ACKNOWLEDGED, ACRDG TO A REPORT PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRS. THE BAN ME AS A RULT OF ANOTHER ER'S PLAT, WHICH FORCED MOORE TO SPEND MULTIPLE DAYS NVCG XBL THAT HE ACTUALLY DID LIVE FORT GAY, BUT TOULOE SAID TRAG WOULD BE UPDATED GOG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT'S NICE THAT THE SYSTEM WORKED MOORE'S FAVOR THE END, BUT STILL, 'S A SHAME THAT HE'D HAVE TO SEE HIS ACUNT SPEND FOR SIMPLY STATG HIS PLACE OF RINCE. HE N PROBABLY BLAME THE LEGNS OF FOUL-MOUTHED YOUNGSTERS ON XBL WHO E HIS CY'S NAME MUCH MORE VULGAR, LS TASTEFUL WAYS EVERY DAY ON THE SERVICE. IT'S ALWAYS GREAT TO HEAR THAT MS HAS FIGURED OUT A NEW WAY TO BAT THOSE ERS, BUT THE RAT OF OFFENSIVE CY NAM TO JUVENILE HATE SPEECH I'VE HEARD TOSSED ABOUT PLAYG "MORN WARFARE 2" IS ALMOST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ARE YOU GLAD TO HEAR THAT MICROSOFT CID TO APOLOGIZE? WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THEM FOC THEIR XBL BANS THE FUTURE? SHARE YOUR RPONS THE MENT SECTN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Microsoft has had to apologize after banng a rint of Fort Gay due to the “offensive” nature of his lotn.

Josh Moore is a rint of Fort Gay Wt Virgia, but Microsoft cid didn’t need to verify that, and simply banned him bee “ohmygod that word has gay !

” Even when Moore argued that Fort Gay was a real town, Microsoft refed to hear him out. Microsoft warned Moore that if he put “Fort Gay” back his profile, they’d axe his acunt and keep the two years of Xbox Live Gold membership that he’d pre-paid. … It mak me feel like they hate gay people, ” says Moore.

"FORT GAY" GAMER SPEND OVER "OFFENSIVE" NAME

Gamer spend over name of town: Fort Gay [Yahoo]. Microsoft has apologized to a 26-year-old gamer after spendg him om Xbox Live bee his onle profile listed "Fort Gay" as his lotn. It turns out that nobody Bged Fort Gay, Wt Virgia, the happy hamlet of 819 cizens.

Heads-up, Microsoft: Mount Gay, Wt Virgia is also a real place. Not the first time Microsoft and gay have appeared the same sentence, Eurogamer have picked up on a story om the Associated Prs regardg an Xbox 360 er banned for havg the word gay his profile.

He’s om Gay, Fort Gay fact, a happy ltle hamlet of 800 well-drsed folk Wt Virgia. Even the Mayor of Fort Gay got volved.

MICROSOFT SPENDS GAMER OVER NAME OF TOWN: FORT GAY

“Someone took the phrase ‘fort gay WV’ and believed that the dividual who had that was tryg to offend, or tryg to e a pejorative manner.

MAN OM "FORT GAY" BANNED OM XBL BY "MISTAKE"

An Xbox Live gamer om Fort Gay, Wt Virgia was spend by Microsoft bee the name of his town was nsired "offensive, " acrdg to the service's of more on Advote. Microsoft stepped to alter their Co of Conduct earlier this year and fally allow Xbox Live ers to intify as gay their profil, but that change still left a ban pable of tchg 26-year-old Fort Gay, WV rint Josh Moore. The ban me as a rult of another er's plat, which forced Moore to spend multiple days nvcg XBL that he actually did live Fort Gay, but Touloe said trag would be updated gog 's nice that the system worked Moore's favor the end, but still, 's a shame that he'd have to see his acunt spend for simply statg his place of rince.

And the chief l enforcer for Xbox Live are apologizg to a small Wt Virgia town and a 26-year-old gamer acced of vlatg the onle gamg service's of nduct by publicly clarg he's om Fort Gay - a name the pany nsired town's name is real. Instead, they spend his gamg privileg for a few days until Moore uld nvce them the lotn his profile, "fort gay WV, " wasn't a joke or a slur: It's an actual muny of about 800 Wayne County, along Wt Virgia's wtern borr wh Kentucky.

It mak me feel like they hate gay people, " said Moore, an unemployed factory worker who plays shooters like Medal of Honor, Call of Duty and Ghost Ren unr the gamertag Joshanboo. "I'm not even gay, and mak me feel like they were discrimatg, " said Moore, who missed a key Search and Dtroy petn bee of last week's brief spensn. Fort Gay is a real place, "' Moore reasoned.

MS: XBOX LIVE FORT GAY BAN "A MISTAKE"

But the employee was unreceptive, warng Moore if he put Fort Gay back his profile, Xbox Live would ncel his acunt and keep his $12 monthly membership fee, which he'd paid advance for two years.

The word "gay, " he was told, was appropriate any ntext. "Someone took the phrase 'fort gay WV' and believed that the dividual who had that was tryg to offend, or tryg to e a pejorative manner, " Touloe said.

MICROSOFT APOLOGIZ TO FORT GAY FOR XBOX LIVE BAN

The Co of Conduct, however, says players may e words cludg lbian, gay, bi and transgenr to exprs relatnship orientatn their profile or gamertag. "Fort Gay has been a muny sce 1789, when 11 people tried to tablish a settlement at the junctn of the Tug and Big Sandy rivers, across om what is now Louisa, Ky. It was rporated as Cassville 1875 but was simultaneoly known as Fort Gay until 1932, when town lears changed to the latter for County historian Herb Dawson said there are several theori about the reason for the change, cludg the railroad pany's sistence that uldn't have two Cassvill on the same route.

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MICROSOFT APOLOGIZ TO GAMER WHO WAS SPEND FOR LIVG FORT GAY