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Post "Southpark", 'Queer' is better than 'Gay'!
With the - maybe? - Queer ('Gay'?) authors of "Southpark" determined to make the meaning of 'gay' to be 'boring', or 'corny' (even my kids use 'gay' as a pejorative term now!), maybe it's better to be Queer. I call myself Queer, partly because I think 'gay' now sounds trivial, and probably gets used to describe guys into what some might consider to be lightweight persuits: fashion, drek, kitsch, show-tunes, popular clubs, bars, cafes, good tan - whatever. 'Queer', somehow, seems to mean sort of a regular guy. Then again, 'filthy' now means 'cool' (which used to be 'hot', and sometimes still is..). But if people say to me: "Are you gay?" I answer: "I'm gonna reply to that, but first I have to understand what YOU mean by 'gay'? Do you mean some guy who wears women's clothes when no one knows? Or a guy who tries to pick up teenagers in public toilets? What is YOUR definition of 'gay'?"
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