Eurvos Morgenbrise
Heaven-Sent Planeswalker
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"Fruit" has indeed been used as a slur for, if not gay men, then flamboyant ones, with the then-popular assumption that flamboyant men were gay and gay men were flamboyant.
The tropes "[=="Camp Straight"==]":http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CampStraight and "[==Straight Gay==]":http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StraightGay went unnoticed back then.
"Fruit" has indeed been used as a slur for, if not gay men, then flamboyant ones, with the then-popular assumption that flamboyant men were gay and gay men were flamboyant.
The tropes "[=="Camp Straight"==]":http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CampStraight and "[==Straight Gay==]":http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StraightGay went unnoticed back then.