Derogatory Language in Intergroup Context: Are “Gay” and “Fag” Synonymous?

Andrea Carnaghi; Anne Maass

doi:10.4324/9780203809990-13

Derogatory Language in Intergroup Context: Are “Gay” and “Fag” Synonymous?

Andrea Carnaghi, Anne Maass

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In October 2004, the Italian Minister for Italians Abroad, Mirko Tremaglia, commented the defeat of Rocco Buttiglione at the European Parliament by publicly stating: “Poor Europe. The fags are in the majority.” Unsurprisingly, his statement solicited a wave of protests. Would the reaction have been the same had Tremaglia used a neutral term such as “gay” or “homosexual”? Most likely, the outrage against Tremaglia’s claim had little to do with the content of his statement (however inaccurate and polemic), but rather with the disparaging and offensive nature of the group label (fag) used in his utterance.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Stereotype Dynamics
Subtitle of host publication	Language-Based Approaches to the Formation, Maintenance, and Transformation of Stereotypes
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	117-134
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781136679087
ISBN (Print)	9780203809990
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203809990-13
State	Published - Jan 1 2007

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