Reply #31: Truth be told [View All]

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I have always regretted that the word gay was adopted by the homosexual community.

I think that this is a wonderful word that has no other synonyms. What would you use: carefree?

Perhaps you have seen the moving Longtime Companion. Was a great movie that described the early '80s when a strange disease was killing homosexual men. This was before the terms HIV and AIDS would be used.

And I remember a scene in the beginning of the movie, when several young men were meeting at a beach location for a weekend and they looked so... yes, gay. So happy and carefree and that was when I really missed the original use of the word gay. Because, really, no one is using the word gay in its original meaning.