Associated Press updates style guide references to gays, lesbians and transgendered

Excellent job by the Associated Press.

One interesting point: the use of the word "homosexual." As I've noted before, the word "homosexual" has a pejorative connotation and should only be used in a clinical sense, if at all. I wouldn't even use it there as the word is still pejorative in that it is clinical, it makes being gay sound like a disease or a disorder, which it was once considered, thus the connotation. But now that it no longer is, we should lose the word that comes from that clinical origin.

Anyway, great job by AP. I can't wait to watch the religious right's collective head explode.