[78-L] 'Gay'.

[David Lennick]

"When I pretend I'm gay
I'm really not that way
I'm only painting the clouds with sunshine".

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

dl

Spats wrote:
> 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.
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