I chose that moniker shortly after pervert marriage was declared to be legal in Massachusetts by the Marxists on our Supreme Court.A local talk host,Howie Carr,coined the name "Gay State" after that decision...it being a reference to our official nickname the "Bay State".
It never occurred to me that some would take it the wrong way...but then how many who've never heard Howie Carr would get it?
There’s nothing wrong with your moniker and as soon as I knew you were in MA, I knew I was a reference to the gay marriage thing. Was it the first state to recognize it? I forget. I know it was some state in the northeast.
Look, people take my moniker and accuse me of being “a spinster” (just this morning!) and in the bad old days, would occasionally make anti-Semitic comments. I’m neither Jewish nor a spinster and, in fact, the name no longer really suits me. But I’m stuck with it and at least it’s better than those monikers like “c284” or “dbf34”. Those drive me crazy.