OK, thanks for the clarification. When people call someone a faggot they should know they’re saying the guy is a queer, a sodomite.
Or just intimating that they are. It’s high school bullying/kidding talk. I went to high school with a couple of guys that were best friends, probably because they both got picked on for being a little bit effeminate. About 20 years after graduation, I saw one of them washing a car, decked out in Daisy Dukes, a white wife-beater, and a Freddie Mercury mustache. I about died laughing. I told my neighbor, and we were laughing, and his girlfriend came unglued on us. Apparently she knew the guy, and swore up and down that he wasn’t gay. I thought she was gonna hit me. Anyway, I relented, saying “OK, he’s not gay. But he’s not doing himself any favors wearing that get-up.”
Addendum: One guy in high school that did turn out to be gay, and, sadly, died young of AIDS, spent most of his free time at school hanging out with the cheerleaders, and other hot chicks. I had no clue he was gay until his brother told me, years after he died. He was a nice guy....his brothers were real a-holes, though.