That's gay, but it's not homosexual; etc.

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 9/7/2001 9:41:34 AM, abatefr at EARTHLINK.NET writes:

<< I can report that the kids (my 15-year-old son and his crowd) use "gay" as
a

general term of disparagement, directed at anyone who does something they

should not have done, and is viewed as weird, embarrassing, perhaps

effeminate.  I cannot say whether this is widespread, but it is clearly in

use in slang in the Northeast. >>


See RHHDAS; this meaning of GAY is widespread and has been around for years.
As I have reported in this space earlier, it was the subject of a vignette in
an episode of THE SIMPSONS several years ago: one of Bart's male friends,
seeing Bart making romantic moves on a girl, says, "Ewwww--holding hands with
a girl--that's so gay."