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When banned 26-year-old Xbox Live gamer called Xbox support to explain that his town of Fort Gay, West Virginia, was a real place and not a homosexual reference, he was threatened with account cancellation. An unemployed factory worker who enjoys first-person shooters, Josh Moore found himself temporarily suspended from Xbox Live last week due to an offensive word in his profile. Moore lives in Fort Gay, a small town of under 1,000 people in West Virginia's Wayne County. The word "gay" in the place name set off red flags with Xbox Live, and Moore found himself suspended, the town name removed from his bio. Moore was rather ticked off. "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." Still, such a silly little mistake should have been easy to fix, right? Moore contacted Xbox customer service to clear things up. "I figured, I'll explain to them, 'Look in my account. Fort Gay is a real place,'" Moore reasoned. But the employee was unreceptive, warning Moore if he put Fort Gay back in his profile, Xbox Live would cancel his account and keep his $12 monthly membership fee, which he'd paid in advance for two years. "I told him, Google it - 25514!" Moore said, offering up the town's ZIP code. "He said, 'I can't help you.'" Moore was beside himself. Fort Gay mayor David Thompson tried to intervene on his behalf, only to be told that the town's name didn't matter, and the word "gay" was offensive in any context. Of course this isn't the case. A change to Xbox Live policy earlier this year made it okay to express your sexuality in your profile or gamertag, after controversy aroseover users being banned for identifying themselves as gay and lesbian. It wasn't until the issue came to the attention of director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live Stephen Toulouse that the situation was finally resolved. "Someone took the phrase 'fort gay WV' and believed that the individual who had that was trying to offend, or trying to use it in a pejorative manner," Toulouse said. "Unfortunately, one of my people agreed with that. ... When it was brought to my attention, we did revoke the suspension." Toulouse explained that complaints generally come to the enforcement group with no real context. Players report language the deem offensive, and it's up to the team members to determine if it's actionable. "In this very, very specific case, a mistake was made," he said, "and we're going to make it right." Toulouse says team member training has been updated to better address issues such as these, so residents of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, and Cumming, Georgia, can rest easy. And who pays $12 a month for Xbox Live?
Xbox Live Gamer Suspended For Living In Fort Gay
The small village of Pussy (French pronunciation: [pysi]) is located in the commune of La Léchère in the Savoiedépartement of France, not far from Moûtiers. The name derives from the Gallo-Roman name Pusiacum, from pusus meaning little boy.[citation needed] Lying near the river Isère and the mountain of Mont Bellachat, the village boundary covers 18 km2 (6.8 mile2). The local church, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, was rebuilt in 1669. In 1561 the population was recorded as 1455 people, 548 in 1776, and 276 in 1979. Pussy and several other small villages were merged into the La Léchère commune for administrative purposes in 1972.[1]
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The people in the following places had also better be put on notice:
Spunky Puddle, Ohio
Faggarts Crossroads, NC
Hooker Hole, Louisiana
Toad Suck, Arkansas
Big Beaver, Pennsylvania (Is Winona the Mayor?)
and Sweet Lips, Tennessee.
