Gay Author's Facebook Page Removed

Well, I've been meaning to delete my FB account for some time now. After reading this, there isn't an excuse in the world that I could use to justify for keeping it. Facebook, you suck.

I have to say that this is ridiculous...I went to school with the author of this book and I was there I think that people that are offended by this are so because they were the ones have tagged the labels in the first place....Frankie I hope this all works out for you and no matter what you know we all are behind you back home...at least all your friends are...Love ya babe

We've never actually reclaimed the word "queer." Straight people still use it to mean "deviant," just like they always did. Let's not kid ourselves. We won't persuade anyone of our human dignity if we call ourselves "queer." Not even ourselves. Gay people have the worst problem with self-hatred! No other oppressed group identifies so strongly with the vocabulary of its oppressors. We still lack pride.

Be careful what you wish for.....if he wants the word allowed on the site....others will gladly put it on the site for different reasons.....

well put, scott.

PS. I was also not a schoolyard bully, nor did i grow up to be an office bully. Real people, even adults, are allowed to use derogatory language and profanity. Especially when discussing their own history and issue.

Jonathon, I can only partly agree. These are the terms that have defined us. We can make new ones, or assert more appropriate ones, but these are still the ones that define much of how we came to identify ourselves through our peers in childhood. To name a book Band Fags and talk about queer issues and growing up is no more self depricating than a black person writing a book about being black in the south in the fifties and calling it 'No Niggers'. You are hiding from reality thinking we should all sanitize ourselves to hide from what hurt you when you were little. It's called a spine, we all need a tougher one. And just to fill you in, self deprication, of an enlightened perspective, is one of the more mature things an intelligent individual can engage in. I wasn't a 'band fag' but i was a 'fag' of a variety of natures and I for one say, "yeah, I'm a fag. And im PROUD of it!"

Using terms like this is infantile, & smacks of self-hate. Mature adults don't talk like this, unless they're former school-yard bullies like the haters that populated the Bush regime for the eight long years they plagued the country! Of course the Idiot had nicknames for everybody, eg., "Turdblossom" for his brain, Karl Rove. We need to rise above this childishness & call it what it is!

The Jews of Weimar Germany made mistake of thinking Gentile Germans accepted Jews because Gentiles were no longer using the "K" word which I would spell out except I do not wish to be banned from this blog. While I would not blame Jews for their own victimization, that mistake turned out to be not a $6 million dollar mistake but a 6 million person mistake. It is also worth noting that epithets such as "f*g" are used far more frequently intragroup than they are by outsiders. I would spell out the word except that I do not wish to be banned from this blog. The rationale in defense of such use is that members of the pertinent group are the ones affected. Ironically, the use of epithets intragroup is even more debasing and harmful than when they are used by outsiders. Why? Because use of such words intragoup is strong evidence of internalized oppression which is worse than that produced by outsiders. In my experience, homosexuals far more often say "that's so Gay" than Straights.

KEPLER Though the 1st Amendment as interpreted by the Supreme Court only applies to State censorship of speech, I do not believe in censoring what has been characterized as "hate speech" and the American Civil Liberties Union. Once we go down the road of allowing one group of people to censor the speech of another, there is no end. If somebody in your presence uses a word that you find offensive, say so. JT Actually, Sorry to say that you are showing your ignorance. Political activist Dick Gregory did title hiss book the "N" word which I would spell out except for the fact that I would not wish to be banned from this blog. Gregory made the point that we will know that we have arrived at a world without racism this such epithet no longer stings the affected group. The same could be said about epithets affecting other groups.