Tag: faggot

Conor McGregor recently came under fire calling an another MMA fighter a faggot. People were not happy with the use of the slur. McGregor has now apologized in a taped segment on the Irish TV Show, "The Late Late Show". He explained the situation saying he was trying to console a fellow fighter after a loss and said his words got away from him. He continued, "I witnessed him lose a fight in a potential career-defining or a career-ending fight in a...

A funny video by comedians Michael Henry, Tom Lenk, and Jimmy Fowlie discusses whether gay men should use the word “faggot.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXvmi5Nhc4c Personally, I don’t use the word with my friends and chosen family. There are so many better words to describe one another, based on love and mutual respect. “Faggot” is a term intended to hurt others, and we should be building each other up instead of tearing each other down. Some people think we should “reclaim” the term. I don’t...

Meet Voight Demeester, ace hockey player and a senior at Penn State. In the below video from Davey Wavey, Demeester recounts what it’s like being called a “faggot” by an opponent; a situation he faced last Saturday. After Demeester alerted the referee about the scuffle, the incident was reported to the Penn State Altoona captain and coach. (The opponent was from a satellite campus, Penn State Altoona.) Talking to OutSports, Demeester says, “In the moment I was disappointed for the fact that they represent Penn...

James Shawlin was doing some post-Thanksgiving shopping with his 4-year-old son, Oliver, when he says he was verbally assaulted by the antigay store manager of the Floor and Decor in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. The alleged incident happened last Friday. According to a local TV news station, Shawlin returned to the store with some damaged stone slabs he had purchased earlier. “The manager that came over was not too happy,” Shawlin said. “You could tell he was not in a good mood.” The two men exchanged words. “I...

https://twitter.com/AndrewKragie/status/796061163222138884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw A man with a “Faggots Vote Democrat” sign and a Glock handgun was detained by police outside a polling place in Spring, Texas — near Houston — on Tuesday. Guns are prohibited at polling places in Texas, but The Houston Chronicle‘s Andrew Kragie reported on Twitter that police didn’t initially intervene because the man was more than 100 feet away as required by law. However, police apparently handcuffed the man and confiscated his handgun after he moved closer to the polling location, according to...

A man is being charged with a felony hate crime after a 64-year-old gay man chased him down after being hit and called a “faggot”. Earlier this month, Richard Schiwietz was just walking down a Santa Barbara street with a friend when an unknown man approached them with his middle finger in the air and yelled, “Faggot! Your mother’s a whore!” When Schiwietz told the man to stop, he refused and shouted, “You say one more word, and I’m going to...