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<p>Hunh? What in the world does this have to do with this thread?</p>
<p>Maybe you should learn to write a little more clearly before you boast about your intellectual sophistication? Using “ilk” doesn’t do it for me.</p>
<p>Also: in private you can use whatever terms you like, but I suspect you’re well aware that except in entirely facetious contexts, most gay people – certainly most of the ones I know – find the use of “gays” as a noun to be rather insulting. My son, for example, is not “a gay.” He’s a gay man.</p>