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...frequently by homosexuals to describe the treatment they receive from those who are heterosexual. Another member of H.G.S.A., Matt, remembers: "When I was in high school there were rumors going around that I was queer. (He says the word with loathing.) The other kids would persecute me by whispering 'Fag!' as I walked by, or by imitating the behaviour of what they conceived a homosexual to be. They were cruel, yes, but a large part of it stemmed from ignorance. That's why re-education is so important." And Peter, who, in his own words, "just came...

Author: By Anne C. Landgraf, | Title: Coming Out At Harvard | 5/15/1973 | See Source »

SIMON By a man who came up behind me, knocked me down and yelled, "That'll teach you to call me a fag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Neil Simon: The Unshine Boy | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...song, the album (Atlantic Records) contains excerpts from a dozen shows, a litany of the Bunkerisms that have won All in the Family the respect of rednecks and the laughter of liberals. To Archie (Carroll O'Connor), the proudly bigoted head of the Bunker household, England is a "fag country," his wife Edith a "dingbat," the Renaissance master Michelangelo "that Dago artist," and Women's Lib a "dreaded disease." As for the theory of evolution, Archie tells his son-in-law Mike (Rob Reiner): "We didn't crawl out from under no rocks; we didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Scorn Along with Archie | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...announces, "I've been trying very hard to give up my symptoms. I'm a failure at everything." At the same session, after Pandora is duly comforted, Giggy Pinimba from Brooklyn says defensively, "I get depressed around the holidays like everybody else, but I'm no fag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ethnic Cartoons | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

...lived in the East Bronx, Robin lived in a mansion, and while I was trying somehow to please my mother-and getting it all wrong-Robin was rescuing Batman and getting the gold medals. You can imagine how pleased I was when, years later, I heard he was a fag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE COMICS ON THE COUCH | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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