I see where Frink is coming from but I don't agree.

I don't see "no homo" as meaning to slam or insult homosexuals. Of course I am not homosexual so I can offer no "personal" insight as to how it feels to hear the phrase, but I can tell you anybody that I've known who uses the phrase is not meaning to be insulting.

It is to me just a humorous way to clear up that you are not a homosexual, even though what you just said might lead people to believe that. As a "funny" way to stop people from thinking things about you that aren't true. I never understood it to be an insult to people that are "homo", just to clarify that although they like some characteristic about another member of the same sex, they don't want you to think they are homo.

I don't see it as insulting, but it is unnecessary and tacky, I don't really "approve" of it as a phrase. I think it's kind of rude and I can see how it *could* be taken offensively, I just don't think that's the intent of people that say it.

So basically you could say I agree with both sides of the argument and this has been one long waste of time neutral post.