Gays OK. Spics, my pals, kikes, and gooks not OK.
Bad joke, sorry my non-white brothers and sisters (Ananth, Krampus, anyone else who doesn't look like a pasty inbred farm animal raper). I wonder if gays get put off from the metal scene by the way we use the words "faggot" and "gay"? A lot of people don't understand that we use those words to mean weak, lame, or just bad in general. At any rate, I personally (and most other metal heads) despise political correctness, so I have no tolerance for people who can't handle derogatory terms.
Dude, I use those words all the time, and usually not when referring to somebody who's gay. Most of the gays I know have never taken offense to them. It's like calling a white guy white. It probably may have some effect because you always hear about skinhead gay bashers and shit like that. I know a few guys into metal who couldn't be any nicer.