[Arthur McGowan]

Until 1987, The Times refused to allow the word 'gay' as a synonym for 'homosexual.'

Now it, and most other papers, use no word for "homosexual" other than "gay," making it impossible to distinguish between chaste homosexual persons and raving gay activists.

[river rat]

Does that mean that fairy, faggot, queer and sodomite are ruled out?

Isn't it amazing that some folks get to rename themselves frequently --- and then make it a hate crime to call them otherwise?
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