Reclaiming slurs – and how Vanity Fair got it really wrong

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Let me say now – I don't care if you are GBLT or straight – you do not now or ever call me a f@g. Ever. Your being gay will not make me tolerate that. Not now, not ever. It's not acceptable, it's a slur, a vile slur that is soaked in violence and hatred and the constant dehumanising the straight world imposes on me. It is a word used to hate, to attack and to violate us. It is a word that I never ever want to see applied to me and I am hardly alone in this sentiment.

If you want to reclaim that word then reclaim it for yourself. You have no right to reclaim it for me and no right to declare that any and all in the entire community has to accept it as reclaimed or accept it as a label with no insult.

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