In a desperate attempt not to be that guy correcting someone I don’t know’s incorrect etymology… Faggot as a term for a gay man does not come from the burning of gay men. It is first recorded in the 1910s, in the US, far after that era.

(Not correct them in their mentions rather) (I’m fine correcting the misconception) The term was originally for a bundle of dry sticks to start a fire- that IS true. And it was in an expression for burning a heretic at one point! That’s all true.

I was thinkin’ it