If you look back at the gains in the homosexual movement over the past 25 years, you will notice that not once has there been a monumental scientific breakthrough regarding homosexuality, its origins, or its fundamental nature. All of the social & political gains the homosexual community has made since the 1980's has been almost entirely a wildly successful P.R. campaign foisted on the public.
The homosexual community could've claimed and embraced any slur against them…"homo", "fag", "queer", etc…but the term "gay" was the most marketable.

Interestingly, the term "homo" would've been more scientifically & definitely accurate of all of them…but "gay" just sounded more appealing.

Although I must admit it was amusing for a trucker to call others perverted when there is an entire sub-culture of hookers that just service your industry. Why must truckers hijack the perfectly good term lot lizard?

By the way I'm not sure Chaucer invented the word gay though he popularized it to some extent.

I'm not reaching. The Daily Caller didn't say Rachel Maddow was just butch or mannish, but they actually called her a man. Man, woman and genderqueer refer to a person's gender identity. Trangender describes someone who identifies as a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth.

Effeminate men, butch women, Drag Kings, Drag Queens, and anyone who doesn't conform to the archetype of their culture for gender expression and behavior are gender variant. And it is indeed aversion to gender variance and transgenderism that is at the root of these insults more than aversion to just homosexuality.

I'm very aware that there are masculine gay men and feminine gay women (or lesbian if you prefer, I mean I don't know if you find calling women gay offensive too) who separate themselves. And I suppose they can just assume I'm not talking about them when I say queer and go assimilate or something.

The point I was trying to make was that Peter LaBarbera refers to Amanda Simpson as a man, a gender other than the one she identifies as. Is that also just a juvenile insult?

Both sides do it and it's f#%#ing stupid.

In doing so you make bigoted sweeping statements about straight people in an attempt to do to them what you claim is being done to you. I don't think it's acceptable to insult gays and have many gay readers of my radically right blog. Unlike the "queers" you speak of which include everyone from RuPaul to male nurses I was the only person to point out that Angie Zapata, the tranny murdered by some degenerate, deserved better than people claiming Allen Andrade was not responsible for his actions by way "gay rage" or whatever. Your loving queer community excused his behavior with a fantasy that Zapata's murderer was brainwashed by hetero normitivity into panicking when he found out Zapata was transgendered. None report the fact that Andrade was in court with Zapata when Zapata was called as Justin.

So who hates "queers" here? The evil straight guy who wanted Allen Andrade put to death for murdering someone or you and your ilk who excused him?

And rightwing watch? Really? Where was Rightwing Watch when DailyKos banned a Black man after allowing several of their top diarists call him a monkey? Where was Right Wing Watch when Pandagon wrote a smear piece on me implying I was gay, and used it as an insult?

You can come here pretending to be oppressed but you're clearly the bigot here.

You seem to be here just to pick a fight. How's that working out as a strategy for winning people over?

Did someone at The Daily Caller call Rachel Maddow transgendered? I don't see any evidence of that. You're reaching – they joked about her masculine appearance, they didn't say anything about her gender identity.

Also, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by dropping links about Peter LaBarbera's bigoted nonsense. I think we'd both agree he's a tool.