Oy, really sorry about that. I guess we should take further discussion offline but I'm eager to understand what "like that" means. The word "gay" itself isn't offensive, I assume. I can't help but feel you must've taken it the wrong way. But even if so it was dumb of me to say something so easily misinterpretable.

Btw, the original version of the paragraph in question is included at the very end.