When a slur isn't a slur - What do you think?

A gay student group is clashing with officials in the San Diego Community College District over attempts to post leaflets at two campuses announcing the name of the organization: Fellowship of Associated Gay Students and Straight Allies. Actually, it is the acronym — FAGS — that is causing problems. A student organizer told The San Diego Union-Tribune that the name is designed to have "a little pop to it" and to "neutralize" the slur, in the same way many people have changed the way the word "queer" is used. But district officials reported that there were complaints about the term, leading to a request to keep the posters down.

Jason Frye, president of gay and lesbian clubs at San Diego City College and Mesa College, supports using the acronym FAGS for The Fellowship of Associated Gay Students & Straight Allies.

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