The condition that is now called gay was then called queer. The operative word was faggot and, later, pussy, but those epithets re...ally had nothing to do with the question of sexual preference: You were being told simply that you had no balls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American ideal ... of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and I...ndians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden--as an unpatriotic act--that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
she gives her children neither sense nor money Who slouch arouond the world with a gesture and a brogue... And a faggot of useless memories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be sure he's a "Man," the male must see to it that the female be clearly a "Woman," the opposite of a "Man," that is, the femal...e must act like a faggot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »