Saying something bad is gay is implying that there is something wrong with me and others in the lgbt community, which we all know is not the truth

i say it and never think of it in an offensive why its just a normal thing something im used to never mean it to be offensive

yes, definitely offensive.

doesnt really matter to me honestly

I think it's offensive - using someone's identity as an insult is deeply rude and inappropriate. I hated hearing this while walking around campus back at my high school...

Very much so.

Its meant to be kind of offensive isnt it? Otherwise whats the meaning?

Only if it's literal is it okay - like if my male friend is singing fireworks and I say "that's so gay", I mean that to imply camp etc; but I'd never say it as in "this homework is so gay" etc, and I always call people out.

Yeah, not always personally offended but I lose respect.

i personally dont think its offensive because words change meanings all the time and unless someone's saying "that's so homosexual" people should know that when someone says that its not meant to offend people its just like saying retarded is not meant to insult the mentally challenged

Of course it's offensive. How is this still a question? If you use something that someone has been oppressed for being and make it a negative thing, how is that not offensive?

Saying that's so gay isn't offensive in and of itself. Saying that's so "gay" as something that is stupid or wrong... that's offensive. It isn't acceptable to treat someone differently because of who they find attractive.

Having...6 pages of comments on this topic already I'm sure someone else has already mention it but I've had the argument a few times in the past day that the phrase "that's gay" or any variation of it subconsciously spreads homophobia by relating "gay" with "bad" or other synonyms or similar words of bad.

It dont bother me, but i know it does my partner she gets enraged she says people are ignorant thats like someone saying thats so white or so black

In my friend circle there are many that are straight and they do say "thats gay" from time to time but it is always followed by "and not the good kind". They don't mean to be offensive and that is their way of letting us know that it is not meant to be.

I don't think it's offensive. I say it all the time around my gay friends and they don't find it offensive either. I don't think people use it literally as if something is bad it's homosexual.

Of course it is.

I find it offensive when people use the term "gay" to express distaste in something. Even if they don't mean to say that being gay is bad, they're still attaching a stigma to the word. Even if subconsciously, the word receives a negative connotation. I've told off several of my friends for doing this. I won't have it.

Secondly, it's just a ridiculous insult. "That's so gay." Really? That's homosexual? I have been known to call things "straight" in the same way that a lot of people call things "gay" in order to illustrate that this really is just a really stupid put-down.

I get so angry when heterosexual people pull the "I don't really mean that gay is bad" card when they say "that's so gay" or "no homo". Your privilege is showing, hun.

i find it offensive 99% of the time

I think it depends on the topic because I think "gay" and that's gay are different. "Gay" is two guy's (I am not against gay marriage, I completely support it because everybody has a right to be happy) and that's gay is referring to something that is stupid. A word can have many different meanings.

But it might be offensive to some.

its offensive

I think it is offensive but still catch myself saying it sometimes. just from being around people that say it. Its not right and I need to check myself.

I don't find it offensive, but I can see why some would. But anymore, anything related to the word "Gay" is going to exaggerated just like anything a white person says negative about someone makes them racist just because the person HAPPENS to be black. I think it's all stupid and see no reason why people have to be so negative and automatically take things so negatively when it's not intended that way. A lot of people get offended when you use "retarded" in that sense as well.

I personally usually say "That's retarded/stupid" and not "That's Gay". But I don't get offended when others say it unless they are saying to someone "You're fucking gay". Cause then that is meaning it offensively.

How I see it is no matter how much some hate it, people are still in that habit of just saying it not meaning it offensively and it's a hard habit to break. Just like people thinking ignorant means rude, which it in no way does but majority use it that way.

Again though, I do see why one would find it offensive. Hey, my one homosexual friend gets offended when you're driving and tell him to go straight. lol. He gets cranky and tells us "It's forward, not straight!".