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I agree with you Harry. There's no problem with a word having two meanings.
As far as I'm concerned gay can mean either light-hearted or refer to a person who is attached to people of the same sex.
But the tendency to use the word as a synonym for lame is different. It is an antonym of the gay=light-hearted meaning, so causes confusion.
Even worse, it is a pejorative term, so looks like an attempt to drive the gay people back into the closet.
I belive that I've already converted Nietzsche's The Gay Science. Perhaps I'll look for some more light-heartedly gay literature.
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