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Personally, I've been trying to reclaim the word to its original definition of 'happy'. Not much success so far.
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It makes be feel stupidly happy whenever I hear some old coot say "Have a gay old time." It's a good word.
The funny thing is, a lot of my friends are cast from a similar mould to me - you know, mature yet wilfully immature and all that shizzle - and they don't use 'gay' as a byword for naff. They still use it a lot, just jokingly calling their friends' sexuality into question. But since a few of our friends are actually homosexuals, they still do that to them, just reverse it. So concerning my GBFF Sam, they'd say something like "You're all a bunch of pansies - except Sam, he's well macho."
Not really going anywhere with this, just an observation.