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- From: mudge@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (MUDGE BRIAN WAYNE)
- Subject: Origin of the term "faggot"
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:55:10 GMT
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- Ok, when challenged, back up, find your sources, and repost...
- From THE GAY BOOK OF LISTS, Leigh W. Rutledge, c.1987, Alyson Publications
- Inc., 40 Plympton St., Boston, Mass. 02118, p.42
- A brief summary of each of the five points mentioned in the book, (quoted
- without permission, of course), is:
-
- 1.) English Boarding Schools, "fagging" was the system under which lower
- classmen were required to perform certain duties...
-
- 2.) Burning Faggots, As far back as the fourteenth century, the word "faggot"
- referred to the bundle of sticks and twigs used as kindling for
- burning people, such as "sodomites" and "buggers", at the stake.
- Many people now believe that use of the word "faggot"as a pejorative for
- gay men orginated with this medieval practice of executing
- homosexuals by burning.
-
- 3.) Smoking Faggots, The cigarettes source.
-
- 4.) Gay Sorcerers, gay men came to be called "faggots" because of the
- words long mystical association with the sacred fire and the
- sorcerer's wand.
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- 5.) Disagreeable Faggots, As far back as the 1500's, "faggot" has been a term
- of abuse or contempt applied to a disagreeable of objectionable woman.
-
- Bri...
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