Context is overrated, right? 
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That's not the point. The point is we've allowed these words to be used in this manner. .
When you look at tweets like "i hate gays gangbangers and ****ing jerkers..unless its gay gangbangers thats ****ing jerkers....WOAH!!! ...no homo..im not gay...******!" or "There must have been one ****** in the gym yesterday trying to impress these two stupid small girls by benching 60 lool I wanted to be sick" (I just found those in literally two seconds on the feed. There's probably been hundreds of more examples of these by the time you're reading this.)
or what 99% of these tweets are: "Lol what a ******" or "Lol you're so gay" context really doesn't matter. It just proof that these homophobic words have infiltrated our language and are used regularly between people in conversations all the time.