Thread:Undoniel/@comment-2138959-20150228212353/@comment-3406131-20150303120926

Bryan Landry wrote: It goes back to a time when the term "homosexual" was used in a clinical context to describe it as a mental illness. It is also often used as a derogatory term by anti-gay figures. You have a good point, that "gay" can be used negatively...but the difference is that "homosexual" is always offensive in any context. It's comparable to the term "colored". I guess non-English countries don't have the same history of that word. Where I come from, homosexual can be derogatory or neutral, neutral-friendly, as it's the generic term, and the scientific term as well. Some people use more "gay" as derogatory than "homosexual" who is almost a formal term.

For your final question, I guess the better to do is:
 * You create a thread on the forum about this, maybe with a sondage (I don't know if it possible to do so)
 * You tell me on this discussion
 * I will inform the admins
 * We hope others editors wil came to discuss