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As an adjective, gay is certainly to be avoided: luckily one can still comfortably distinguish gaiety from gayness!

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I've got a colleague in her 30s - very attractive woman, straight, unmarried - whose surname is Gay; her given initials are BJ. She no longer puts her name up on her door, to avoid the snickering ... and yet when her parents named her, the meaning that exists today never occurred to anyone.

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Which, I suppose, means that it could happen to any of us!