Like just CONSTANT violence. There's a reason Beano characters always had black eyes or "cauliflower ears". Teachers calling you "poofter"/"bender" for performing badly in PE. Constant choking cigarette smoke or the lingering smell of it. "Dirty old men" lurking down lanes. IRA bombs. Queerbashing.
January 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Like just CONSTANT violence. There's a reason Beano characters always had black eyes or "cauliflower ears". Teachers calling you "poofter"/"bender" for performing badly in PE. Constant choking cigarette smoke or the lingering smell of it. "Dirty old men" lurking down lanes. IRA bombs. Queerbashing.
Love to get called a poofter by some guy who decided to be needlessly aggro to me as I cycled by, as I'm sure HE enjoyed my shouted confirmation I am, indeed, a poofter and that if he had tried my proudest sexual exploit, which I briefly explained to him, he would be more fuckin chill
May 19, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Love to get called a poofter by some guy who decided to be needlessly aggro to me as I cycled by, as I'm sure HE enjoyed my shouted confirmation I am, indeed, a poofter and that if he had tried my proudest sexual exploit, which I briefly explained to him, he would be more fuckin chill
Yeah. I got in a lot of fights at school. I was That Queer, That Poofter, That Gaylord. Backs against the wall, lads, there’s a poof in town. One time the whole class chanted QUEER QUEER QUEER at me. Hit, burned, stabbed with various implements, head slammed into desks and walls. Cigs put out on me.
It’s hard to convey what it’s like to grow up targeted by intense, omnipresent homophobia.
I grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s. I remember once when I was 9-10 years old and my mom was helping me clean up a nosebleed.
I got upset about her touching my blood because I was afraid she’d get AIDS from me.
May 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Yeah. I got in a lot of fights at school. I was That Queer, That Poofter, That Gaylord. Backs against the wall, lads, there’s a poof in town. One time the whole class chanted QUEER QUEER QUEER at me. Hit, burned, stabbed with various implements, head slammed into desks and walls. Cigs put out on me.
Group of pissed up lads on their way to the darts at Ally Pally just passed me in the street and after they had gone by one of them sang in a kind of football chant, "You wear a pink coat/You fucking poofter." For clarity, I'm wearing a pink coat and I'm a poofter but say it with love & admiration!
December 22, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Group of pissed up lads on their way to the darts at Ally Pally just passed me in the street and after they had gone by one of them sang in a kind of football chant, "You wear a pink coat/You fucking poofter." For clarity, I'm wearing a pink coat and I'm a poofter but say it with love & admiration!
December 2014 and Nigel Farage defends dropped UKIP candidate Kerry Smith. He defends the racist slur "chinky", the homophobic slur "poofter" and suggests it is what people who live in council houses say (which is class based bigotry). Even Nick Ferrari is less than impressed.
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
December 2014 and Nigel Farage defends dropped UKIP candidate Kerry Smith. He defends the racist slur "chinky", the homophobic slur "poofter" and suggests it is what people who live in council houses say (which is class based bigotry). Even Nick Ferrari is less than impressed.