Add the caption and it's at least 1008 words.
I'm speechless.
Get Behind a Homo -
Smoke the Homo Cigar!!!
The Times (Munster, Indiana), May 8, 1916, page 2. |
In England they smoked "fags" (still do, although that's just a cigarette), so I shouldn't be too surprised.
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan), August 7, 1929, page 30. |
Betty Carstairs
smokes a "fag" as she lands in New York after trip from her native
England, all set for her attempt to win the Harmsworth speedboat races in
Detroit.
But I'm pretty sure it's just a coincidence.
Still . . .
Ironically, in Japan, they use "HOMO" on pencils, I'm sure they don't see the irony either.
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