Faggot

“Yeah man…” I once said to a guy I was talking to. His reaction immediately was, “stop saying man and calling me man”. Why? Why was it inappropriate for me to call a guy a man? Men say it to one another all the time and labeling a boy a man is typically a sign of pride for that male. So why was I asked to stop saying ‘man’? As the years have gone by my friends have come to accept that I tend to ‘talk like a guy’. I never minded this notion that I talked like a guy rather than talking “girly”,…

reporters that she hates degrading words, same as Alicia, Azalea, and Ben. “All Cuss Words are cool other than Fag and the “N” word,” Alicia Stout. Ben is an open gay student here at Park Hill, he told reporters he can be okay with the use of Fag/Faggot, but he believes to say it you need to be in the LGBT+Q community. All students agree that use of the “N” word wasn’t to be used anywhere, some students say it can be used for learning purposes as it shows up in…

Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a simple narrative, straightforward in its execution but complicated in its implications. Mr. Hyde is a complex metaphor, standing in for the dark underbelly of 19th century society. Thomas C. Foster, thankfully, lays out ways in which this metaphor is expressed in his How To Read Literature Like A Professor - including the roles of physical deformity, sexual metaphors, and geography. The most basic, and in fact textual,…

Soybeans, God, and Horseshit Small towns always have a distinct smell. You won’t notice it at first. No one really does. There’s always too much shit in the air. Horses, cows, pigs, chickens. Good old boys and god. Drivers will wave you on at stop signs, regardless of the fact that it’s their turn. Downtown will be historic, but all the buildings will be crumbling, and no one will be able to afford the restoration. The people will be friendly, tired, and stupid. And the smell will never leave.…

only gay guy in this novel and has many obstacles because of it. One instance on their way to the border they stopped at the station. There the FeFe called Tacho a “male prostitute” and a “Faggot” multiple times (Urrea 81). He forced Tacho to go to the bathroom with him, and there he called him a “dirty little faggot” and…

Larry Kramer lived infamously throughout the gay community for writing a controversial book which detailed the sexuality of the homosexual community called Faggots. Years after Faggots got released, Kramer released The Normal Heart play which highlighted his fight against the slow progress the government put forth. The movie, in my opinion, covered the monumental struggles, frustration, and heartache Ned Weeks, Larry…

Language is the basis of all ideological concepts. Without language, the fundamental ideas of human society would be clouded in an intangible form where we all understand the idea but fail to express it. As such, it is very important that our discourse stays as unpolluted as possible, encouraging proper wording and politically correct statements discourages discrimination through the nonchalant language that we have plagued pop culture. As the LGTBQ+ community gains their rights, many people…

HIV is not ‘’homo sexual disease’’ anybody can get it different ways unprotected sex being the most prominent way of becoming a carrier. Ron started off being homophobic and completely denying the fact that he had HIV because he considered it a ‘’ faggot disease’’ , but as he came to the realization as the movie continued he knew that he had unprotected sex and that was the reason he contracted the virus, not by sleeping with another man.…

Masculinity is the most prevalent theme in the article “Boy” by Mark Behr, which depicts a father-son relationship. Undoubtedly a father will teach their child certain rules of life, but what is unique about this relationship is that the constant demands the father urges the son to do revolve around what may be considered “manly” work. These constant demands for the child to emphasize his manliness are a result of the father’s worry about his child’s sexuality. Although Present day families are…

in the Vortex that discussed his struggle not only with homosexuality but with his effeminacy. He said for many people it was his rejection of masculinity that was the hardest to grasp. His “forbidden identity” was having behaviors resembling “faggots” and he accepted his effeminacy because, “Faggottry can be revolutionary.” Bailey writes that many young people had their first experience with the sexual revolution,…