Why be unkind?

[nullnaught]

If you're not defending the word gay, how do you expect people to write about anything if any word can be construed as offensive? The entire reason of using the word is to avoid exclusionary categories, to speak of a theoretical construction of difference without making direct reference to any identity.

There is already a perfectly acceptable word for the noncomfomist community that is inclusionary of all, including those who are different but not in a sex/gender way, to which I don't believe anybody objects. the word is "counterculture." Is this not so?