I think it's valid to note the usage of such a word- but the usage itself is perfectly proper. (Especially in the way that Bill used it in his couplet. Is it a couplet if it's only one line?) Using it as a truism made up of all Q's is used quite rightly. Queer, meaning strange, is an old term. As is 'gay'. Gay is a happy little word and when it is appropriate, I will continue to use it to mean joyful.

Gay and Queer currently have more specialized meanings, and I have no problem with that. Like you, Azizi, I have gay friends and I like the absence of any connotation in that word that because they are "different", they are somehow inferior.