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Word: faggots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several solutions were offered to improve gay rights and relations within the College, including working for a more positive administration and directly confronting anti-gay personal remarks. One student suggested that the administration inform first-year students during the orientation period that the use of the word "faggot" is not acceptable...

Author: By Ned B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BGLTSA Discusses Recent Violence | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...When students hear terms like `faggot' or other bigoted terms, they should respond to that and say, `I don't accept that,'" he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Bells Memorialize Slain U. Wyoming Student | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

...Love is still a believer in attitude. "Just once in your life you need to have thrown a TV out a window," she says. "Or wear leather pants or get called a faggot or get called a freak or get called deranged or have insane rumors floated about you. Every single decent rock star I've ever met has had this." A word of advice: don't stand beneath her window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Love In Bloom | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...East Boston resident reports being assaulted by a 30-year-old male with blond hair who cursed at him and called him "faggot" while striking him in the back...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Police Department Log | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

...long history of corruption. A common joke had it that Philadelphia's kids could play cops and robbers at the same time. This was especially true in the 1970s. The mayor was former police commissioner Frank Rizzo, who had promised to "make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" if he won election. "The way to treat criminals," Rizzo explained, is "spacco il capa" (bust their heads). Rizzo was as good as his word. A study for the U.S. Justice Department found that while individual Philadelphia police officers made no more arrests than New York City cops, during Rizzo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW COPS GO BAD | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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