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JHS · 05-05-2008, 10:15 AM

I certainly never considered myself anti-gay, but use of the word "faggot" as an all-purpose insult was ubiquitous in my world from 5th-9th grades, approximately. Pretty much everyone stopped using it as we realized that it could refer to actual people we knew (or, in some people's cases, to themselves).

There was exactly one out gay man in my all-male high school while I was there. (I was class of '74, he was in '75.) As you might imagine, however, by the time we were juniors in college, several of my high school classmates had come out, some who surprised me and others who didn't.

05-05-2008, 10:15 AM	#19
JHS Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,335	I certainly never considered myself anti-gay, but use of the word "faggot" as an all-purpose insult was ubiquitous in my world from 5th-9th grades, approximately. Pretty much everyone stopped using it as we realized that it could refer to actual people we knew (or, in some people's cases, to themselves). There was exactly one out gay man in my all-male high school while I was there. (I was class of '74, he was in '75.) As you might imagine, however, by the time we were juniors in college, several of my high school classmates had come out, some who surprised me and others who didn't.