I remember hanging out at my best friend's house when I was a teenager, and both of us stopping dead in our tracks (and starting to cry, iirc) because a PSA with Wanda Sykes came on the TV, and Wanda Sykes told people to stop saying "gay" as an insult because it was hurting people.

And I went back to school the following Monday to hear "that's so gay" dropped every other sentence by my peers, but it didn't hurt quite as bad as it had the week before, because at least Wanda Sykes was out there telling people not to, y'know?

"Stop using gay as a slur" PSAs. Those were definitely a thing. That people have apparently forgotten.

Anyway stop tagging my posts as "q slur in url" or I'm going to kick your ass.