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In real life I don't know I've ever heard it used confrontationally towards a gay person. Just from dudes when posturing with one another for a fistfight.
The most infamous example.
Emile Griffith (February 3, 1938 – July 23, 2013) was a professional boxer who became a World Champion in the welterweight, junior middleweight, and middleweight classes. In 1964, he was voted Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine and the Boxing Writers Association of America. Griffith currently ranks #20 in BoxRec's ranking of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all time.[1][2][3][4][5]
His best known contest was a 1962 title match with Benny Paret. At the weigh in, Paret infuriated Griffith, a bisexual man, by touching his buttocks and making homosexual slurs ("got"). Griffith won the bout by knockout; Paret, never having regained consciousness after the fight, later died at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan from massive brain hemorrhaging.[6][7][8]
The match was broadcast live by ABC on its live weekly boxing sports program, Fight of the Week in front of millions of viewers. It was both notable and controversial for the punishment Paret took in the ring at the hands of Griffith, leading to political calls for bans on boxing bouts. Griffith would later receive hate mail from Paret supporters who were convinced he had intentionally killed him.[9][10]