The word “faggot” really means a bundle of sticks used for kindling in a fire. Now, in the Middle Ages, when they used to burn people they thought were witches? They used to burn the homosexuals too. And they used to burn witches on a stake but they thought the homosexuals were too low and disgusting to be a given a stake to be burned on. So they used to just throw them into the kindling with the other faggots. So that’s how you get “flaming faggots”.

You might want to know that every gay man in America has probably had that word shouted at them when they were being beaten up. Sometimes many times, sometimes by a lot of people all at once. So when you say it, it kinda brings it all back up.

But you know, by all means, use it. Get your laughs. But you know, now you know what it means.

-Louie

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