to the ears of many gays and lesbians, more pejorative.
Why, there are so many other more colorful perjorative terms to use:
Like, faggot, queer, rump-ranger, butt-pirate, fairy, bull-dyke, packer/muncher...we could go on for hours...
And we might.
Rump ranger is good too.
Butt-pirates. Lol. I first heard that term with the movie PCU.
My personal favorites... turdburglars and calmlickers.