Dear RC: Peace be unto the House of Lords. In fact, peeees all over them.
However I also resent the misuse of a fine word to describe a foul faction.
I had friends who formed a club in the forties called "The GaY Fifties"
because they were all a bit over fifty years old.
They found themselves in a few years ridiculed by teenagers.
And I knew several families named Gay who must have resented the change.