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No. But I got called "faggot," and I'm not.
No, but I did call someone a faggot and stuff him in a trash can and roll it down a hill. It had nothing to do with his sexual orientation and everything to do with being annoying.
No. But I got called "faggot," and I'm not. Might've been much worse if I'd gone to a public school. (At least, that's what I would've assumed before this Romney story broke.)
Probably. I don't remember doing so but it was commonplace. There were no openly gay people in school then so often it was meant more as an insult to a straight person and only inadvertently an attack on a real homosexual. Some kids obviously leaned that way but never dared to actually be out. They'd get picked on more. Don't recall picking on them but if I did I wouldn't be surprised.
I answered "no" because I can't remember a single kid being openly gay and this many years later, I don't even remember anyone accused of actually BEING gay. "Faggot" was a common insult, however. Not one I ever used though. It was the boys who used it as an insult for the most part.
AFTER high school, when I was in college, I heard about a star high school athlete from our class being gay.
I graduated high school in 1968. Nobody was out in 1968. I don't think Liberace, Truman Capote and Paul Lynde were out in 1968.
The homosexuality closet was so deep in 1968, I don't remember straight kids using it as insult to one another.
But looking back, there were one or two guys whose indescribable weirdness is now in blinding perspective. Oh, yeah.
But I gave some of those rich snotty kids a hard time.
All three named persons are before my time. I can't see how anybody would think Liberace was straight. I grew up watching Bewitched reruns and just thought Paul Lynde was a character and never realized he was gay. Uncle Arthur and that laugh was hysterical.
Funny skit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUAMmWzjpA
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