Use of Antigay Slurs Soars on Twitter

[William769]

Though the LGBT community has made great strides in the battle for equal rights over the past 12 months, the use of antigay hate speech on Twitter has only increased.

Gathering numbers from the site NoHomoPhobes.com, Vocative reports that use of the word “faggot” has more than doubled in the past year, rising from approximately 22,000 to 58,000 mentions per day on the social media site.

The use of “dyke” in tweets has remained steady at about 3,500 mentions daily.

http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/internet/2013/06/06/use-antigay-slurs-soars-twitter

Of course I tweeted this information.

[Skittles]

1. they are cowards

when they are publicly called out, they delete their accounts

[Initech]

2. I reported a few posts on MSN today saying "that's gay".