I'm pretty much disinclined to see that movie now. I don't know how far back the trend for "gay" as a pejorative goes in the US, but it does seem to be more prevalent than ever - it's really unsettling when a word that has been one of the few actually positive adjectives in our vocabulary is appropriated like this.
In Hebrew there is no "gay", it's still derived from homosexual, so the word for gay is in fact "homo" and yeah, still very much used as an insult - only in official media releases is the cleaner word used to describe the QUILTBAG community used "The Proud Community", which is actually nice as the word is "ge'eh", which is almost a homophone, but not quite, to "gay".
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Date: 2010-10-09 05:23 pm (UTC)In Hebrew there is no "gay", it's still derived from homosexual, so the word for gay is in fact "homo" and yeah, still very much used as an insult - only in official media releases is the cleaner word used to describe the QUILTBAG community used "The Proud Community", which is actually nice as the word is "ge'eh", which is almost a homophone, but not quite, to "gay".
Have fun at your reunion!