Gay Pupils Insulted By Homophobic Phrases

[mushroom25]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/24984781

the word "Gay", from the French "gai", meaning joyful or bright and showy, was increasingly appropriated in the last century to mean a particular lifestyle associated with orientation. Now it's been appropriated by others to mean something else.

Language is constantly evolving; is this something that the LGBTI community needs to "get over", or is the word "gay" now irrevocably locked to its 20th century meaning?

[jim360]

You kidding? I lie awake at night wondering about the significance of that picture. Is the seagull really Hope, ever out of our reach yet never far away... ?

[joggerjayne]

I like that.

My seagull has become the elusive lovers around the top of the vase in Ode On A Grecian Urn ... always just out of reach.

Although anyone who thinks that seagulls are elusive and out of reach has never walked along the prom eating a doughnut or a bag of chips.

[joggerjayne]

My seagull is called Godot.