[Christopher Mulrooney]

Don't get you.

[Caleb Murdock]

When people bemoan the fact that "gay" has come to mean "homosexual" instead of "happy and carefree", they turn their annoyance to homosexuals, assuming that homosexuals are to blame for the change in meaning, but they aren't. It was <u>heterosexuals</u> who first started calling homosexuals "gay". The new meaning was coined by heterosexuals, not homosexuals.

[This message has been edited by Caleb Murdock (edited February 19, 2001).]

[Christopher Mulrooney]

I see what you mean.

[Norman Ball]

Btw, this Bishop sonnet is showcased at the site below along with some Reaaudio recordings of it bu Pinsky, Strand et al
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/p...ngs/bishop.htm

Norm