OK for a Leftist Icon to Use “Homophobic” Language?

Posted on June 27, 2007

We read:

“Gore Vidal is up in arms over a new play that imagines him being sexually attracted to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Edmund White’s “Terre Haute,” which recently finished a successful run in Britain, involves the relationship between a thinly veiled, Vidal-like writer named James and a McVeigh-like killer, Harrison.

Vidal, 81, told the London Observer: “Edmund White will yet be feeling the wrath of my lawyers. It’s unethical and vicious to make it very clear that this old faggot writer is based on me, and that I’m madly in love with Timothy McVeigh, who I never met.”

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Ann Coulter was condemned all over the net for using the same word. Listen for the silence about Vidal using it. And Vidal is using it in an abusive rather than a descriptive way, unlike Coulter. And Isaiah Washington lost his TV job for using the word too.

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2 Responses to “OK for a Leftist Icon to Use “Homophobic” Language?”

Michael S. Clark on June 28th, 2007 8:55 am

The difference is Gore Vidal himself is gay. Being 81 years old probably also has quite a lot to do with it since the only words back then for homosexuals was queer and that word.

Not to mention the fact that he was using it against a fictional character that was written with him in mind by the writer until the writer changed it to more so being how he himself (the writer) might have been attracted to Tim McVeigh.
Bobby on June 29th, 2007 8:11 pm

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/context