Which word do you prefer to use? No, I didn't ask you whether you like people of that persuasion or not, or what your religion feels, which word do you prefer to use when you talk about homosexuals?
I'm watching a movie "Doing time on Maple Drive" the dad told his son who he recently found out is a homosexual that he prefers the word "homosexual", instead of "gay" because "gay is a perfectly good word that has been destroyed"!
Interesting way of putting it! I remember when I first came to the US when a discussion started about 'gay' and I happily said, "I'm gay"...in my naivety at the time because I wasn't familiar with that terminology being used in reference to people who were homosexual here. In Jamaica when I was growing up, 'gay' was a term for someone who was happy and giddy and dare I say bright....?!lol!
I laughed when I was told this! Boy being ignorant can lead to some interesting revelations!