Thinking critically about the so-called "gay caveman"

Wondering about that supposed "gay caveman" found last week in Europe? At the Neuron Culture blog, Eric Michael Johnson does a great job of summing up everything that was wrong with that story (and there was lots wrong with that story).

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GrrrlRomeo

In practice, gay quite often means queer (just because we can’t say queer outside the community). Plenty of women and people who are technically bisexual identify as gay. Gay doesn’t necessarily mean homosexual male. In the west, we didn’t start sub-categorizing gender and sexual orientation to death until the 70s due to identity politics.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Likewise, some same-sex practitioners are really, really not gay in any possible sense of the word.
Anonymous

drop the “gay” …just “gavemen.” it’s cleaner.