[Shaun]

I know the severity of it isn't comparable to the N word but I guess I have the same feeling about it as I do when saying "fag" or the one with "got" at the end when I'm talking with friends. It's something that takes me aback if someone non-queer uses it but it really depends on the context and your relationship with the person saying it.

I don't have a problem with singing the word if it's literally quoting someone else's song and lyrics, because that's just... karaoke. Would be like being punished for reading The Catcher in the Rye or Huckleberry Finn or something. I just think I'd probably censor myself if I was around someone I didn't know that well.