I'm taking back "gay" this year. Who's with me?

Look, "gay" is an old word.

It used to mean happy. People used to use it all the time to express joy. Men, really manly men, the guys your grandparents were, and the guys your parents looked up to would use the word gay all the time with no second thought. Guys like Humphrey Bogart and Paul Newman.

And then all that changed. A certain group of people adopted it as their own term.

Well, now, "gay" isn't enough. No one is no longer gay, they are this kind of gay or that kind of gay, -gay (suffix gay), or gay with a twist.

LGBT is what is used to describe these types rather than gay, and gay has no more use in that context.

In another context, gay has devolved into being used as a term to mean stupid. I wonder why, because it was stripped from what its original meaning was, which is stupid. Hell, I haven't used gay to mean anything other than stupid for years. Remember those gay Lizzy McGuire ads?

So, to fix all of this I have a resolution to use the word gay in the manner that it was intended to be used. I'll even throw in queer too.

And before I get any hate for not having the right to take back "gay", I have all the right. I have been called gay more than any gay man.

So, from here on out, gay means happy again, and I'm going to make sure others know that.

Who's with me?