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...other tracks, Eminem goes after gays with a fervor that would shame Dr. Laura. On one song, he raps: "My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge/That'll stab you in the head whether you're a fag or lez," and then goes on to make fun of the 1997 killing of designer Gianni Versace ("Whoops--somebody shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Whiter Shade of Pale | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

Several minutes into the performance, a person sitting three rows behind me yelled "fag" as a performer in a flamboyant peacock costume came on stage. My friend pressed my leg with her hand, knowing the anger that was welling up inside me. Other heckling eventually drowned out the offending comment. I sat there hoping that nothing more of that nature would be said. Instead, a barrage of homophobic remarks started spewing forth from those seated behind me, and to my total dismay, these comments met with applause and laughter from the audience...

Author: By David B. Orr, | Title: Poison In the Pudding | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...many familiar faces: classmates, acquaintances and even many close friends all laughing along with these jokes. The girl from my art history class burst into loud laughter. The guy who sat next to me on the shuttle to New York started clapping every time he heard the word "fag." I even saw a friend from high school scream, "Take...

Author: By David B. Orr, | Title: Poison In the Pudding | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...John McCain." When McCain said the group had not endorsed him, Bush replied, "It doesn't matter." To conservatives, though, it mattered a great deal. A few days later, a Baptist church in Kentucky began faxing a flyer to South Carolina radio stations, railing against "John McCain's fag army." (Both McCain and Bush support the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military.) The Bush campaign said it had nothing to do with the flyer. But the Governor repeated his anti-gay message during an on-air interview with a Christian radio station in Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Read My Knuckles | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...questionable, though, because he faces charges of lying to Army investigators, in addition to conspiring with Glover to murder Winchell and being an accessory to the crime. Sometime after 2 a.m., Fisher said Glover saw Winchell sleeping on the cot, with the dog tied to it. "What's that fag doing sleeping there?" Glover asked Fisher. The pair entered the room Fisher and Winchell shared, where Fisher kept a baseball bat. Glover grabbed the bat and, with what an Army prosecutor called a "wide-eyed, psychotic look," began making slashing motions with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do People Have To Push Me Like That? | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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