Tag: antigay slur

Mathieu Bastareaud was initially suspended for calling an opposing player a "f*cking f*ggot." A rugby team in France has dropped a player for using an anti-gay slur. Mathieu Bastareaud, a center with the French Rugby Club (RC) Toulon, was initally given a three week suspension by the European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) after he called Italian forward Sebastian Negri a “fucking faggot” during Toulon’s match against Benetton Treviso last weekend weekend. Prior to EPCR’s disciplinary hearing, Toulon came to Bastareaud’s defense. In...

Meet James Gelb. He’s a slumlord, er, landlord from Santa Barbara, California who may be facing charges by police after a video of him shouting antigay slurs at a man in public went viral. The ugly confrontation happened on November 7 in downtown Santa Barbara. In the video, Gelb can be heard shouting the word “fag” more than a dozen times. According to The Noozhawk: Early in the video, the two men appear to be talking about Gelb’s property holdings, a Del...