by Bach Polakowski | Aug 18, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
The use of the phrase “no homo” in hip-hop music was analyzed recently in “Does This Purple Mink Make Me Look Gay?” by Jonah Weiner, a pop critic for Slate.com. The phrase has been around since the 1990s and is invoked whenever a person wants...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 5, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Greg McMackin, the coach of the University of Hawaii football team, was reprimanded by the Western Athletic Conference for repeatedly using the F-word in front of about a dozen reporters—and then asking them not to report that he used that word—in describing an...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 22, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Discussing the use of epithets on this blog has been and will continue to be a challenge. An exchange in the comments section of a recent post titled “Gays and God and Obama” by fellow NLGJA blogger Michael Triplett is a great example. A reader used the...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 7, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett
They say “timing is everything” and The Advocate’s editor in chief, Jon Barrett, is in the unenviable–or perfectly timed–position of defending the magazine’s cover story on Perez Hilton. With Perez spending more time making...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 8, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
I believe that certain words should be off limits (at least to some people). To my taste, “faggot” is one of those words. When used against a man who has sex with men, I believe it’s equivalent to the N-word. In this context, I’ll refer to it...
