Re: [Futurework] Gay at birth?

[Robert E. Bowd]

Ray,   Your reference to the word 'gay' caught my sympathetic attention.  Do you know anything about the social semiotics  of the word 'gay'?  Is it a self-designating term of cultural resistance, or externally constructed?   I did a quick search, but could not forbear trolling through the Religious Right attacks on the gay and lesbian communities.   The official knowledge dictionary definition only situates it as a cultural and social reference to the gay community, as opposed to 'homosexual' referencing sexuality.   Bob   Ray offered:     " In this society the most wounded of the day are called "Gay" and that should say something in itself. "