Mizzou police issue advice for reporting 'hateful and/or hurtful' speech

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53. Did you not read what I wrote?

I was threatened in person. These assclowns came to my newspaper office and asked where I lived.

These big strong football players told my editor that they were looking for me and would find me. It was not a big campus.

They threw slurs at me in the day light...in those days they didn't have to wait for after dark.

But yes, as far as slurs thrown after dark...yes darlin', as a gay woman coming out in the 70s...oh yes...I heard plenty of slurs thrown after dark. Heard them in the light of day as well. Had people ask me why didn't I have a man. Those of us coming out of the gay bars on a Saturday night...mm hmmm, usually good for a few asshats screaming invective at us.

Here's my favorite memory, when I was still a mere young'un. Outside a gay bar in Charlotte, NC...bunch of us outside smoking whatever....several drag queens outside with us. Bunch of rednecks pull up, throw beer cans and scream (well you can imagine what they screamed). I was still pretty young because the drinking age was younger then. Drag queen closest to me reaches in her purse, pulls out a handgun and says, "Oh yeah, mother f----r, I got a fa--ot for you." No he didn't shoot, but you should have seen that redneck pull out. It was scary at the time, but dayum if we did not love telling that story to our friends later.

Darlin', you're cracking me up if you think I don't know about this crap.