“gay fashion designers”
Sodomite fashion designers.
Complicity in allowing sodomites to hide behind the euphemism “gay” is, IMO, a mortal sin.
Well, please rethink that. Language is not static. Words can acquire new meanings and lose their old meanings. "Homosexual" has become a very well established meaning of "gay." The new definition was added over 40 years ago. I remember columnist Herb Caen complaining about it in the late 1960s. At this late date, "gay" hides nothing.
I can't remember the last time I heard anyone use the word in its old sense of "lighthearted and merry." Kids now use the word to mean something entirely new, and the new meaning is not at all positive. (See "slang" at the bottom of the list at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gay). There is nothing to hide behind in that new definition. In another 40 years the slang definition may be #1 on the list, and "lighthearted and merry" may be considered obsolete.