Some gay people are flamboyant - yes. Some straight people are also flamboyant. This does not mean that the word flamboyant means gay. The word gay was once and still is a term to describe someone being happy. Homosexual means gay. Some homosexuals are flamboyant. Some homophobics use the word gay in a derogatory manner. For example: 'stop with the signatures at the end of a post, they're gay'.