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As many people have pointed out, excising sexual orientation terms from our vocabulary would primarily have the effect of replacing those terms with definitions, ie. My friend who is gay....vs. My friend who likes men.
The reasoning that states that the stereotypical connotations that are associated with the term would not arise when those terms aren't used is faulty logic, because whatever prejudices a person may have, will still arise when the definition is used. By this I mean, if a person thinks gay men are feminine, when you describe a man as liking other men, that person will still think of a feminine man. The key is to remove those mentalities from the individual person.
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