Usurping the traditional term GAY to take the homosexual meaning out and leaving in the lame.

"ghey" is an insult or used in place of "lame" or "suckish" or any number of similar words. it is used mostly because "gay" used to be an insult, but now being a more tolerable thing, "ghey" is it's own thing, not meaning to insult gay lesbian bi or trans-gender people, but to point out that something or someone is "lame" or "boring" or something of that sort.

a derivation of gay meaning lame. meant to be non-offensive to individuals of a homosexual persuasion.

Someone in south africa . From the south of joburg .. IE: rosetenville alberton oakdene glenvista south hills etc ... That aspire to drive a golf gti but jam a citi golf .. Never wearing jeans .. Always track pants or skit pants ". With a hoodie and a NY 59 fifty fitted cap on :) with either supergas or tomys :) their music is always deafening and its normally minimal house , fidget or house .. They also smoke a lot of hubbly bubbly otherwise known as a hookah and drink a lot . They use very special slang with words such as main butna bint teezey bot skit etc .. And wenever there's a party a ghey will be there skitiing ..

It means the same as "gay." This term began as a way to get around videogame servers and other profanity filters. Gay is blocked, but "ghey" is just fine.

postmodern redevelopment of the word "gay" - it now implies all the formerly offensive stereotypes of uselessness / weakness then associated with effeminate homosexual men in 1970's sitcoms, whilst carrying with it no actual implied sexuality connotations.

a way to take the guilt out of offending homosexuals by calling something unfavorable gay.

since verbally, the new spelling is virtually unnoticeable, this rationale is rendered a waste of time, but as mentioned, it serves its purpose in the mind of the homophobe-in-denial.