Heya, Pyg... Maybe you are speaking for yourself, but certainly not all young people.

The harm lies in the very nature of your line of thinking. Gays are discriminated against, tortured and murdered just for being gay world wide. To think that there is no offense is to not be thinking.

To use the word casually is to condone the suicides and murder of gays world wide.

So this begs the question... Is it lame that one person could love a person of the same gender or lame that parts of society have an issue with it?

This post was actually kind of funny, but also somewhat at core of what is wrong with the lack of thought and consideration that that should go into issues that deplu affect gay people.

The harm lies in the very nature of this line of thinking. Gays are discriminated against, tortured and murdered just for being gay world wide. To think that there is no offense is to not be thinking.

This kind of reasoning is dismissive of the harm it causes to a minority group that we share the world with. There is a gross disconnect on the part of anyone who uses the word to mean anything other than to describe being happy or to describe being homosexual. Even the long standing use of what should mean happy to identify a homosexual person is derogatory, yet it is firmly established and at least there is no inherent insult (yet, it deeply implies "different from what is normal"). If you hold firm to the type of thinking that the color blue is for boys and that pink is for girls and use "gay" to mean "lame" in your everyday speech, I urge you to consider that the world and the use of "gay" in this context is far more complex than the consideration you are giving it. What might be an acceptable use for you personally is actually hurting others. While we live is a world where a teenager is killing himself for being homosexual an average of once a week and a man is murdered for being homosexual an average of once a month (both rates are probably higher as this is only what gets reported), measurable harm is being done. To fail to recognize this and use the word to mean lame is to condone these deaths and murders.