[78-L] 'Gay'.

[Spats]

Hi!

I have two things against using 'gay' as a word for homosexual.

(1) It's inaccurate. I've met some pretty miserable homosexual people 
of both sexes.

(2) I can't listen to the lyrics of old songs...eg 'I Surrender Dear'...

Remember these words...?

'I may act gay.
It's just a pose.
I'm not that way'.

You just can't sing that song any more...! ;-)

Earl.

At 12:00 pm -0800 25/1/2009, 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com wrote:
>As someone who's gay AND homosexual, I don't know how you can say the word
>was "stolen" - it's been used in its "current" meaning for over a century in
>some circles - in the last half-century it has moved to the mainstream in
>that meaning.  Aren't there hundreds of words out there with more than one
>meaning? (Like "blue" the color and "blue" the feeling?) And "homophobic" is
>not a fear of men in toto- it's a fear of gay men!
>
>Dave W.