Still, gays who patronized the small bars known as shebeens often faced insults from straight men.
Bell was one of a number of politicians who faced insults in the House of Keys, the directly elected lower branch of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, when arguing for decriminalisation of homosexuality.
As one of few black children in Flemingdon Park, Angela often faced insults, particularly over the fact that she was a mixed-race child with a white mother and sisters.
A lovely singer, who's resigned to the circumstances, upholding her respect when she faces insult.
Even when he returned to Mexico, he often had to face insults when he appeared in public.
In 2005, the BBC's likeable royal reporter faced the insult of being "dissed" by the Prince of Wales during Charles's annual ski tip to Klosters.
He faced each insult not only stoically — deprived of singing, he resolved to improve his drumming — but with an affability that was his signature.
Faced with insult on immigration from one political party and broken promises from the other, Latinos may be tempted to sit on the sidelines in the 2014 midterms.
Mary R. from Albany wrote: "The A&A program administration is an utter disgrace and slap-in-the-face insult to veterans and their spouses.
This year's budget cuts, in particular — and the response to our appeal from the city — felt like a slap in the face, insult to injury, for every year's concessions to what we wish for our students.
Red faced, spewing insults and standing nose to nose with the Flanders Opera's general director, the businessman predicted the production would stir up anti-Semitism, which festers just below the surface here, he said, to which the flustered impresario blurted out that if the situation for Jews were really so precarious here, they should leave.
