William F. Buckley calls Gore Vidal a “goddam queer”. Video here:
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/lofty-william-f-buckley-called-gore-vidal-queer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
GORE VIDAL: You must realize what some of the political issues are here. There are many, even in the United States [who] happen to believe that the United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Viet Cong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of Western Europe and many other parts of the world. If it is a novelty in Chicago, that is too bad, but I assume that the point of the American democracy…
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY: And some people were pro-Nazi, too, some people were pro-Nazi.
GV: …is you can express any point of view you want. Shut up a minute.
WFB: No I won’t. Some people were pro-Nazi, and the answer is they were well-treated by people who ostracized them, and I’m for ostracizing people who egg on other people to shoot American Marines and American soldiers. I know you don’t care, because you don’t have any sense of identification…
GV: As far as I am concerned, the only sort of pro- or crypto-Nazi I can think of is yourself. Failing that,…
MODERATOR: Let’s not call names.
GV: …I would only say that we can’t have the right of assembly…
WFB: Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi…
MOD: Let’s stop calling names and let’s get…
WFB: …or I’ll sock you in the G**d*** face and you’ll stay plastered.
MOD: Gentlemen, let’s…
WFB: Let the author of Myra Breckenridge go back to his pornography and stop making any allusions of Nazism…
MOD: I beg you to…
WFB: …to someone who served in the infantry in the last war and…