I think it all depends on the tone of the person's voice and who is saying it
If one of my friends called me a fag, or their favourite fag or something I wouldn't take offense, but if like someone who doesn't like me said it I would definately take offense because its obvious that they're using it in a derogative sense.
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Originally Posted by joeyconnick  I can't imagine what it would be like to be closeted and have to hear people use gay that way multiple times a day. |
I can. I have this terribly homophobic friend and pretty much everything he doesn't like he says it's gay. I reckon I hear gay said that way like 50 times a day :icon_frow .
Especially when in music we're analysing Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and 'Somewhere' from West Side Story because queer jokes are thrown around constantly since Freddy Mercury was gay and Leonard Bernstein is bi.
Can't wait till im out, maybe they might stop. But it's hard to imagine it because it's become a habit for people to just say gay instead of stupid.