Zoe Williams: This po-faced rectitude - "If you accept that queer no longer means strange, you need to accept that gay no longer exclusively means homosexual"

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/12/equality.gayrights

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I don't know that I agree with that specific argument (or that Williams does) - one is a reclamation of a derogatory term, the other the reverse - but it's an interesting read regarding the attempt to police children's use of language.

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