why'd you bold it? i go to palmer and nobody says "dyke", that just sounds stupid. "fag"? well yea that's used, but who's to say it's not referring to a bundle of stick (haha, right). no, but seriously folks, our current society has changed our perceptions. The word "gay" used to only mean happy. a "fag" is a cigarette in Great Britian. words change, meanings change. the fact that "gay" means happy, homosexual, and now 'bad' (in some sense or another) just shows a language and culture change.
there are plenty of words with multiple meanings, and without changes like this our language would never grow? for most people it is not, and has never been, a thought of "oh, i hate homosexual people... we call them gay... well then other stuff i don't like is gay"
i know plenty of gay and bi kids who say "that is so gay" and don't think twice about it. it's this sort of hypocritical bullshit that is pulling American society down the tube: and we wonder why other nations don't like us.