[PGR88]

In my Italian American New York neighborhood, any guy who did something disagreeable was a “faggot.”

Oddly, we never saw a real faggot.

[Olog-hai]

“Faggy” had nothing to do with sex. A fag was a sissy — a fag was a guy who wouldn’t stay out late of go stealin’ or hitchin’ on trucks or something — “Aw go home, you fag — go home, fag! It’s 10 o’clock — the big fag’s gotta go home!”

“Queer” — we knew what a queer was. A queer was the word we learned right after we learned “homo” — “Ah — he’s a queer! — oh, he’s a homo, he’s a homo, he’s a homo? — yeah, yeah!” A fag was a guy who wouldn’t go downtown with you beatin’ up queers! Part of that Irish street macho.

— George Carlin

That’s what happens when the left gets too much control of the language.