Live User Suspended Over Town Name

Microsoft has suspended a 26-year-old gamer from Xbox Live, reportedly because he placed an offensive home town name in his profile.

The account owner in question, Josh Moore, lives in Fort Gay, West Virginia - the state also contains a Mount Gay and a city named Gay. While Microsoft is right to fight homophobia on Xbox Live, it's obvious they need to check these things before suspending people.

When Moore contacted Xbox Live support he was told that if he put Fort Gay back into his profile he would be banned from Xbox Live and Microsoft would keep the his prepaid money.

Moore told Associated Press, "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."

Gamesradar cites a number of other place names in the United States that could be considered offensive in this instance including Gay, Georgia and Straight River, Minnesota.