Use of the Word "Homophobic" as Slang

Apparently, some enjoy using the word "homophobic" as negative slang because it's super cute or funny. The topic arose in The Cher Show thread because someone said a photo posted of Cher looked "homophobic", which caused questions and confusions. When opinions were raised and a discussion ensued, there were complaints to keep the thread on topic (though it's not like there were interruptions to numerous on-topic posts, anyway), so I pose the question here.

Use of "homophobic" as negative slang for anything related to LGBT: Yay or nay?

I'm firmly NAY.

I have no particular objection to it, MisteMatt, other than it don't quite get how it would generally "work." I can see it being funny in a drag show, SassySam, but can't see it "reading" in most contexts and doubt it will or should catch on.

I think one or two people appearing to do it in a thread on a theater discussion board probably doesn't constitute any sort of societal change so not sure at this point at least, any sort of referendum is needed.

Another variation, which would probably be considered far more offensive to most, is "he/she can say 'faggot'."

That's just disgusting.

I confess that my friends and I do this. For example we'll say things like "He doesn't know who Patti LuPone is? That's homophobic." or "They didn't bring me honey with my tea.How homophobic". It's very tongue in cheek, and we don't do it in front of people who won't get the joke. I'd never do it on a public forum like Twitter (or go on Twitter, for that matter).

Also, I could watch that video of Coco playing Grand Theft Auto forever.

I don't think it's an example of slang.

I think it's hyperbole for comic effect. I like it a lot!

It might very well be! I don't know what words mean any more. When this use of "homophobic" was described on the other thread as the LGBT community "reclaiming" the word, I realized that perhaps people just use any word however they like because they actually don't know the definitions of...words. Might a's well ju'st add apo'strophe's before the letter "s" in every word while we're at it...ju'st becau'se.