Know what, author of article? You don’t own the word gay. Or queer. Or fag, which is a cigarette, or faggot, which is a stick intended for burning. When you go to an English pub and see faggots and peas or faggots with onion gravy it is not a gangbang with vegetables or sauces it’s pub food. In James Fenimore Cooper stories, a group of men sitting around flaming faggots were cooking.
Making words magic or charmed is evil and will bite you.
So ... I was clearing brush on my property last weekend ... I didn't burn the faggots, I shoved them all into the wood chipper.