So...what the hell is it with Alec Baldwin and gays?

[JHB]

21. I can tell you almost for certain that he did.

Baldwin's a few years older than me, and grew up in the next town over. He went to the same high school my older cousins did. At least two of them were there when he was.

The words he used were part of the standard verbal ammunition for insults for youth in that time and place, especially when it was getting really nasty. Latent homophobia was pretty pervasive -- especially among young men -- and few if any were inclined to stick their necks out to rebuke the overt ones.

My take on it is pretty similar to yours. But he definitely needs to control his anger, or learn to cut himself off when crap like that boils up.