LEARN – WHY WE DON’T USE OR TWEET THE TERM ‘FUCKING FAGGOT’.
SO THE UBER COOL ADAM LAMBERT GOT HIS AWARD LAST NIGHT FROM EQUALITY LA, (GOD KATHY GRIFFITH IS CLASSLESS), AND MADE A VERY HEART FELT WITTY SPEECH ABOUT GROWING UP GAY WITH NO GAY VISIBILITY AT ALL, AND TALKED ABOUT BEING CALLED A ‘FUCKING WEIRD FAG’. WATCH THE SPEECH HERE…………..
SOME ‘FANS’ ON TWITTER WERE THEN TWEETING ADAM HE WAS THEIR ‘FUCKING WEIRD FAG’ AND THEY WERE ‘FUCKING WEIRD FANS’………TALK ABOUT MISS THE POINT. THE TERM IS HARSH AND AN INSULT. ADAM WAS NOT TRYING TO ‘RECLAIM’ IT OR HAVE IT USED EVERYDAY. HE WAS DEMONSTRATING THE BACKWARD HATRED HE HAD TO PUT UP WITH. DO NOT TWEET IT TO HIM. DO NOT CALL YOURSELF A WEIRD FAG. I HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO CALL TO CALL MYSELF A FAG, AS ADAM DOES. THIS IS TO TAKE THE POWER AWAY FROM THE WORD FOR OURSELVES. IT IS NOT IN EVERYDAY USE IN THE GAY COMMUNITY, NOR WILL IT EVER BE.
IF YOU ARE STILL IN DOUBT, JUST SUBSTITUTE ‘NIGGER’ FOR FAGGOT’. IF YOU WOULD NOT USE ‘NIGGER’, DO NOT USE ‘FAG’ OR FAGGOT’. A SIMPLE TEST THAT WORKS WELL. WORDS DO HAVE POWER.
LOVE YOU ALL.

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