[SzczerbiakManiac]

• Until reading the posts in this thread today, I had never heard "homosexual" used to specifically connote males.
• To me, "gay" is like "mankind" in that it really does refer to both genders, but some people insist it's just talking about dudes. Whatever, I have more important battles to fight.
• Lesbian has always been strictly female.
• "Queer" is the umbrella term. It can refer to anything on the Kinsey scale above 0.1 as well as transgender, questioning, and even heterosexuals who feel they have a 'queer sensibility".