I remember growing up in the 80's, us kids in school would call each other pansies all the time, but never thought of it being a bad word for being gay.... it meant you were a chicken sh*t. If we wanted to call each other gay, we'd call someone gay, or queer, or something else that at one time used to mean something else.
Queer used to mean strange or peculiar.... a f@ggot used to be a cigarette last I checked. Pansy has already been explained.
Now a days, if I want to reference someone as being gay, I just call them "Dainty" and flick my wrist or flail both hands up in the air as if I am flaming.
Speaking of which, I'm sure we won't be able to use the word "Flaming" soon enough too.
All these PC nut jobs can suck a chunk of corn from my cracker-white, potato eating, ginger, freckled @rse. They might even be lucky and get a potato instead of corn.
That's right....