There will come a time... Maybe there'll come a time when the people these words identify won't have to deal with prejudice and antagonism, and whatever words used will just be neutral and casual, and won't get loaded with the hostility that means they have to be replaced periodically.

Anyway, if "gay" gets retired in its sex orientation role, because young oiks are using it as a put down word in other contexts, I hope we can start reclaiming it for its older meaning, because the language is badly missing it. And I have a feeling the loss of the word is making it hard to recognise and value the quality it stood for - "fair and wise and good and gay".