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The University of California, Irvine, is encouraging students to attend “safe zone training” after posters advertising Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos‘ “Dangerous Faggot Tour” sparked concerns.

From Washington Times • May 12, 2016

George P. Putnam has republished Sir Francis Head's lively volume entitled A Faggot of French Sticks, describing what he saw in Paris in 1851.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

I bought it from Maister Justice Foxley's clerk, Maister Nicholas Faggot, wi' the guinea that you gied me.

From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir

I drew close beside him and his clerk, Mr. Faggot, thinking the moment favourable for my own liberation, and intimated to Mr. Foxley my determination to stand by him.

From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir