Word: faggots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gossip persisted and "seemed to be affecting the platoon," Staff Sergeant Eric Dubielak testified. Even Winchell's superiors began piling on. The company's first sergeant said he was going to "get that little faggot" when Winchell showed up for duty one day smelling of alcohol, according to testimony. "Pretty much everybody in the company called him derogatory names," Kleifgen told a pretrial hearing. "They called him a 'faggot' and stuff like that, I would say on a daily basis. A lot of times, he was walking around down in the dumps." Yet the sergeant let the trash talking continue...
...would have to leave the Army. Better to simply shrug off the slurs. But by the time the fight broke out between Glover and Winchell, the atmosphere was poisoned. "I can't believe it," Glover confided to his fellow grunts after Winchell floored him. "I won't let a faggot kick my ass." But Winchell apparently had dismissed Glover's death threat as more braggadocio. And he didn't relish his win. "Why," he asked a fellow soldier, "do people have to push me like that...
...complies. He makes his way to the counter. Across the restaurant, someone yells, "Hey, faggot!" When the boy comes back to the window, he is carrying a $1.25 slice of pizza smothered in ketchup...
...evil" and "Pain shared is pain divided," he preaches, building to where he demands honest answers to a few questions. "How many of you have seen fights start here at school for something silly?" The hands shoot up. "How many of you have heard the words homo, faggot and dyke used in school?" A sea of hands again, just as when he asks if they have seen students isolated and ridiculed. "This is not how we want to live," he says...
...black employees (the firm denied wrongdoing). For his part, Curry alleges he was paid less than his white counterparts and was often assigned menial work. Co-workers allegedly derided him and other African-American employees. After the magazine appeared, Curry says, people left messages calling him a "faggot" and a "monkey...