If you think casual or venomous utterances of "fag" in 1980& #39;s cinema is bad you should try getting, as a gay man, through horror novels of the #PaperbacksFromHell variety without throwing your book across the room. John Peyton Cooke& #39;s The Lake just gave me a real big sigh.
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Though no book about fire breathing salamanders killing people around a filthy pond, all a result of a 50 year old witch& #39;s curse, is going to get under my skin and ruin my night. I fucking refuse.
*2 pages later the protagonists condemned the homophobes who were using the slurs (for being assholes) so at least the homophobia was framed in the negative. Or rather, being homophobic towards a presumably straight guy for his choice in flamboyant 80s fashion was condemned.