I am sure there is often juvenile tittering when neophytes pass through Intercourse, Penn. Perhaps the same occurs with Fort Gay, W. Va., home to a 26-year-old gamer named Josh Moore.
Moore apparently wanted to show his Fort Gay pride. Indeed, he listed “fort gay WV” as his location in his Xbox Live profile. Unfortunately, the Associated Press reports that, ever alert for the japes of wrath, Microsoft suspended Moore for what it assumed was a rather crude and pejorative slur.
”At first I thought, ‘Wow, somebody’s thinking I live in the gayest town in West Virginia or something.’ I was mad. It makes me feel like they hate gay people,” he told the AP. Moore, who is unemployed and plays shooters using the nametag Joshanboo, tried to explain to Microsoft that Fort Gay is a real place, with real people and a real ZIP code: 25514. However, the Microsoft representative was having none of the Fort Gay talk.
The representative reportedly threatened him with draconian cancellation unless he removed any trace of his Fort Gayness. The mayor of Fort Gay got involved. WSAZ TV reported that Mayor David Thompson was told by Microsoft that it doesn’t matter that the word “gay” is part of the city’s name. It’s a word that gets flagged. So there.
“I’m amazed that in this day and age they would flag the word ‘gay,’” Thompson told WSAZ TV.
Don’t these boneheads have access to a computer? Now, I challenge the readers to submit actual names of towns that may or may not be offensive. Hint: England has a ton of them. One of my favorites….Big Lick, Virginia. (renamed Roanoke for the obvious reasons).
Wait was this an ARMY fort? And they called it THAT?! So much for don’t ask-don’t tell.
Sheshatshit, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
M$ is retarded. The sooner this relic from the past is gone, the better.
Was a time in the early 90′s when Fox would have made a sitcom with that name. Maybe they will now. I’d watch it.
Sexbierum, Friesland, Netherlands (Sex Beer Umhh??)
Always got me LOL when i was a kid!
http://maps.google.nl/maps?q=Sexbierum&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Sexbierum&gl=nl&ei=aZ6ITKGPCoWCOOzA7I8O&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ8gEwAA
Long ago I drove through Toad Suck, Arkansas.
Hell, MI
Colon, MI
Scunthorpe, UK.
#9 the DON said, “It was called Jackson(s) hole.”
Um, I think you mean Jackson Whole, WY.
On ‘Bloody Dick road’ near the ‘Big Hole’ area you can rent Bloody dick cabin in Montana.
#25–Fool==beautiful little town. What is that huge factory complex?
There is also a Mount Gay in West Virgina.
Since the use of “Gay” to mean “Homosexual” is not the original meaning of Gay, let’s all start call gay people “Microsoft” and soon these idiots will have ban themselves.
A pal of mine had a similar problem on a Forum site a few years back, he lives is Scunthorpe, UK. It took me a while to work out what the auto-swearfilters were objecting to.
Cockermouth, Cumbria, UK
There’s a street name around Fresno area called focker or something like that
And the ever popular, Happy Camp, Calif, Drain, Ore., oh, and Placerville, Calif. used to be called Hangerstown.
I live quite near Locks Bottom in Kent, England.
Funnily enough, Pratts Bottom is just down the road.
We never talk about the place just north of us though, in case the Vole is listening.
Paw Paw, WV.
Does that mean the word gay has been completely appropriated by the homosexual community?
How shall we change these famous lyrics?
“When we’re with the Flintstones
we’ll have a yabba dabba doo time.
A dabba doo time.
We’ll have a gay old time.”
Always wondered about the subtext between Barney and Fred…
Thank u Mike in Newark that is exactly what I was scanning for as I figured it was a mistake.
Apparently it’s Microsoft’s policy of “Don’t Ask, don’t tell, or can’t play Xbox.”
Are they as paranoid as the US Military, that they believe people won’t play on Xbox if any gayness is detected. They don’t discriminate against any players from San Francisco. Which is fairly well known as the gayest city in America. What difference does the town’s name make, if it’s really the least gay town?
BTW, Gayville, South Dakota;
Gay, Georgia; Gayton Crossing, Virginia
H*ll, I use to think Redmond was something rude. So who is Microsoft to judge?