The history of the word “gay” | The Gayly

Contents:

• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–FRENCH DICTNARY
• 35 FRENCH GAY SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW
• GAY
• HOW ‘GAY’ GOT S RABOW: WHAT ONCE MEANT MERRY IS NOW A BADGE OF INTY FOR HOMOSEXUALS HDTAN TIM | BYPOULOMI BANERJEE SEP 21, 2018 04:18 PM IST SHARE VIA COPY LK THE DICTNARY TRAC THE ORIG OF GAY TO THE FRENCH WORD GAI. BUT HOW DID SOMETHG THAT MEANT CHEERFUL BEE SYNONYMO WH HOMOSEXUALS, WHO HAVE HAD TO FIGHT LONG AND HARD FOR THEIR INTY? IF (ISDEVICEENABLED('SMALL') || ISDEVICEENABLED('MEDIUM') && !ADFREE) { (FUNCTN () { GOOGLETAG.DISPLAY('DIV-GPT-AD-1524814893923-0'); }); } ON THURSDAY, AS THE SUPREME COURT CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUALY, READG DOWN THE NTROVERSIAL BRISH-ERA SECTN 377 OF THE PENAL , MUMBAI-BASED ARNAB NANDY TOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO EXPRS HIS JOY, AS MANY ACROSS THE UNTRY AND THE WORLD WERE DOG. “I AM SO GAY TODAY…” HE WROTE A G-OUT POST THAT HAS SCE GONE VIRAL. BUT WHILE NANDY’S CHOICE OF WORD WAS BANG ON THAT DAY, HOW DID A WORD THAT HAD ORIGALLY MEANT LIGHT-HEARTED, REEE OR CHEERFUL, BEE ASSOCIATED WH A MUNY WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN OFTEN BEEN ANYTHG BUT? CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN THE 1938 FILM BRGG UP BABY, WHERE GRANT ED THE WORD ‘GAY’ ON SCREEN. OPN IS DIVID THOUGH, ON WHETHER HE ED TO MEAN HOMOSEXUAL OR HAPPY AND CHEERFUL.(ALAMY STOCK PHOTO) THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTNARY TRAC THE HISTORY OF THE WORD ‘GAY’ TO THE FRENCH WORD GAI. MERRIAM WEBSTER TAK FURTHER BACK TO A GERMANIC ORIG “AK TO THE OLD HIGH GERMAN GAHI” THAT MEANT “QUICK OR SUDN”. ACRDG TO BOTH DICTNARI, ENGLISH THE E OF ‘GAY’ TO MEAN HAPPY, EXCED, MERRY, REEE OR BRIGHT STARTED THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERD THAT STRETCH BETWEEN THE 12TH AND THE 16TH CENTURY. ALL FOR AN INTY WHILE SOME BOOKS AND WEBS ON THE HISTORY OF THE GLOBAL HOMOSEXUAL MOVEMENT CLAIM THE WORD GAY WAS ED AS A SECRET BY HOMOSEXUALS TO INTIFY THEMSELV EVEN AS FAR BACK AS THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, PROFSOR ASHLEY TELLIS SAYS “ WAS THE 1960S THAT THE WORD ME TO BE POPULARLY ASSOCIATED WH THE MUNY”. R RAJ RAO, WRER AND PROFSOR OF ENGLISH AT PUNE UNIVERSY, ADDS: “THE STONEWALL RTS (A SERI OF VLENT NONTATNS BETWEEN MEMBERS OF THE LGBT MUNY AND THE POLICE NEW YORK 1969) ARE THE BEGNG OF MOST GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENTS THE WORLD. IT WAS AROUND THIS TIME THAT THE MUNY STARTED G THE WORD GAY TO INTIFY SELF. IN THE BEGNG, GAY WAS ALSO AN ACRONYM FOR ‘GOOD AS YOU’.” IN INDIA, WHILE TELLIS SAYS THE E OF THE WORD GAY TO MEAN HOMOSEXUALS STARTED THE 1970S AND ’80S WH INDIAN MEN WHO TRAVELLED TO THE WT AND ME BACK, RAO AND WRER HOSHANG MERCHANT SAY THE WORD STARTED GETTG ED HERE THE 1990S AFTER THE SETTG UP OF BOMBAY DOST, THE UNTRY’S FIRST LGBT MAGAZE, BY ACTIVIST ASHOK ROW KAVI. GLOBALLY, THE MUNY PREFERRED GAY TO HOMOSEXUAL, SAYS TELLIS, BEE THE LATTER HAD A NEGATIVE FEEL TO – WAS A MORE CLIL TERM, SUGGTIVE OF A MEDIL NDN. AS AN ARTICLE ON THE WEBSE OF THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICE MENTNS, WAS ONLY 1980 THAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS LETED OM THE DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTIL MANUAL OF THE AMERIN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATN, TH CHANGG THE VIEW THAT WAS A BEHAVURAL DISORR. ““WHEREAS HOMOSEXUALY IS JT A WORD NOTG A SEXUAL PREFERENCE OR TENNCY AND ED ROGATORILY, GAY IS AN INTY. EVER SCE STONEWALL, SEXUAL POLICS HAD E TO PLAY AND INTIFYG AS GAY WAS A WAY FOR THE MUNY TO BE A PART OF THAT POLICS,” SAYS RAO. “IT WAS A SUBVERSN OF THE TABLISHED VOBULARY BY THE MUNY. THE SAME WAY THAT ‘QUEER’ WOULD BE ED, LATER ON,” HE ADDS. “WHILE THE NVENTNAL MEANG OF QUEER IS WEIRD, AND IS A DISCRIMATORY TERM SELF, THE MUNY HAS BEEN G AS AN INTY,” HE POTS OUT. THE LGBTQ HAVE THEIR OWN VOBULARY, ONE THAT OFTEN VARI OM CY TO CY, AND HAS TAKEN ON REGULAR WORDS THAT MEAN SOMETHG QUE DIFFERENT WHEN APPLIED TO THEMSELV OR ED WH THE MUNY, SAYS ASHOK ROW KAVI. “IN BOMBAY FOR EXAMPLE, THE LGBTQ MUNY THE WORD ‘GHODI’ TO MEAN A PLACLOTH POLICEMAN,” HE EXPLAS. A NEW USE
• THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
• FAT AND GAY
• HOW TO SAY GAY FRENCH
• HOW DO YOU SAY GAY FRENCH?

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

The word gay dat back to the 12th century and om the Old French “gai, ” meang “full of joy or mirth. For centuri, gay was ed monly speech and lerature to mean happy, reee, bright and showy, and did not take on any sexual meang until the 1600s. At that time the meang of gay as reee evolved to imply that a person was unrtraed by morals and prone to nce and promiscuy.

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–FRENCH DICTNARY

A prostute might have been scribed as a “gay woman” and a womanizer as a “gay man. “Gay hoe” was monly ed to refer to a brothel and, later, “gaiety” was ed as a mon name for certa plac of entertament. In the 1890s, the term “gey t” (a Sttish variant of gay) was ed to scribe a vagrant who offered sexual servic to women or a young traveler who was new to the road and the pany of an olr man.

This latter e suggts that the younger man was a sexually submissive role and may be among the first tim that gay was ed implyg a homosexual relatnship.

35 FRENCH GAY SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW

In 1951, gay appeared the Oxford English Dictnary for the first time as slang for homosexual, but was most likely ed this way “unrground” at least 30 years earlier. ” This le (ad-libbed by Grant) n be terpreted to mean that he was behavg a happy-go-lucky or lighthearted way but is accepted by many as the first e of gay to mean homosexual a mastream movie. When gay is ed today to mean stupid or unsirable ( has only been ed this way sce the 1990s), rri wh a history of negative judgment and rigid ias about who or what is acceptable.

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HOW ‘GAY’ GOT S RABOW: WHAT ONCE MEANT MERRY IS NOW A BADGE OF INTY FOR HOMOSEXUALS HDTAN TIM | BYPOULOMI BANERJEE SEP 21, 2018 04:18 PM IST SHARE VIA COPY LK THE DICTNARY TRAC THE ORIG OF GAY TO THE FRENCH WORD GAI. BUT HOW DID SOMETHG THAT MEANT CHEERFUL BEE SYNONYMO WH HOMOSEXUALS, WHO HAVE HAD TO FIGHT LONG AND HARD FOR THEIR INTY? IF (ISDEVICEENABLED('SMALL') || ISDEVICEENABLED('MEDIUM') && !ADFREE) { (FUNCTN () { GOOGLETAG.DISPLAY('DIV-GPT-AD-1524814893923-0'); }); } ON THURSDAY, AS THE SUPREME COURT CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUALY, READG DOWN THE NTROVERSIAL BRISH-ERA SECTN 377 OF THE PENAL , MUMBAI-BASED ARNAB NANDY TOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO EXPRS HIS JOY, AS MANY ACROSS THE UNTRY AND THE WORLD WERE DOG. “I AM SO GAY TODAY…” HE WROTE A G-OUT POST THAT HAS SCE GONE VIRAL. BUT WHILE NANDY’S CHOICE OF WORD WAS BANG ON THAT DAY, HOW DID A WORD THAT HAD ORIGALLY MEANT LIGHT-HEARTED, REEE OR CHEERFUL, BEE ASSOCIATED WH A MUNY WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN OFTEN BEEN ANYTHG BUT? CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN THE 1938 FILM BRGG UP BABY, WHERE GRANT ED THE WORD ‘GAY’ ON SCREEN. OPN IS DIVID THOUGH, ON WHETHER HE ED TO MEAN HOMOSEXUAL OR HAPPY AND CHEERFUL.(ALAMY STOCK PHOTO) THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTNARY TRAC THE HISTORY OF THE WORD ‘GAY’ TO THE FRENCH WORD GAI. MERRIAM WEBSTER TAK FURTHER BACK TO A GERMANIC ORIG “AK TO THE OLD HIGH GERMAN GAHI” THAT MEANT “QUICK OR SUDN”. ACRDG TO BOTH DICTNARI, ENGLISH THE E OF ‘GAY’ TO MEAN HAPPY, EXCED, MERRY, REEE OR BRIGHT STARTED THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERD THAT STRETCH BETWEEN THE 12TH AND THE 16TH CENTURY. ALL FOR AN INTY WHILE SOME BOOKS AND WEBS ON THE HISTORY OF THE GLOBAL HOMOSEXUAL MOVEMENT CLAIM THE WORD GAY WAS ED AS A SECRET BY HOMOSEXUALS TO INTIFY THEMSELV EVEN AS FAR BACK AS THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, PROFSOR ASHLEY TELLIS SAYS “ WAS THE 1960S THAT THE WORD ME TO BE POPULARLY ASSOCIATED WH THE MUNY”. R RAJ RAO, WRER AND PROFSOR OF ENGLISH AT PUNE UNIVERSY, ADDS: “THE STONEWALL RTS (A SERI OF VLENT NONTATNS BETWEEN MEMBERS OF THE LGBT MUNY AND THE POLICE NEW YORK 1969) ARE THE BEGNG OF MOST GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENTS THE WORLD. IT WAS AROUND THIS TIME THAT THE MUNY STARTED G THE WORD GAY TO INTIFY SELF. IN THE BEGNG, GAY WAS ALSO AN ACRONYM FOR ‘GOOD AS YOU’.” IN INDIA, WHILE TELLIS SAYS THE E OF THE WORD GAY TO MEAN HOMOSEXUALS STARTED THE 1970S AND ’80S WH INDIAN MEN WHO TRAVELLED TO THE WT AND ME BACK, RAO AND WRER HOSHANG MERCHANT SAY THE WORD STARTED GETTG ED HERE THE 1990S AFTER THE SETTG UP OF BOMBAY DOST, THE UNTRY’S FIRST LGBT MAGAZE, BY ACTIVIST ASHOK ROW KAVI. GLOBALLY, THE MUNY PREFERRED GAY TO HOMOSEXUAL, SAYS TELLIS, BEE THE LATTER HAD A NEGATIVE FEEL TO – WAS A MORE CLIL TERM, SUGGTIVE OF A MEDIL NDN. AS AN ARTICLE ON THE WEBSE OF THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICE MENTNS, WAS ONLY 1980 THAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS LETED OM THE DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTIL MANUAL OF THE AMERIN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATN, TH CHANGG THE VIEW THAT WAS A BEHAVURAL DISORR. ““WHEREAS HOMOSEXUALY IS JT A WORD NOTG A SEXUAL PREFERENCE OR TENNCY AND ED ROGATORILY, GAY IS AN INTY. EVER SCE STONEWALL, SEXUAL POLICS HAD E TO PLAY AND INTIFYG AS GAY WAS A WAY FOR THE MUNY TO BE A PART OF THAT POLICS,” SAYS RAO. “IT WAS A SUBVERSN OF THE TABLISHED VOBULARY BY THE MUNY. THE SAME WAY THAT ‘QUEER’ WOULD BE ED, LATER ON,” HE ADDS. “WHILE THE NVENTNAL MEANG OF QUEER IS WEIRD, AND IS A DISCRIMATORY TERM SELF, THE MUNY HAS BEEN G AS AN INTY,” HE POTS OUT. THE LGBTQ HAVE THEIR OWN VOBULARY, ONE THAT OFTEN VARI OM CY TO CY, AND HAS TAKEN ON REGULAR WORDS THAT MEAN SOMETHG QUE DIFFERENT WHEN APPLIED TO THEMSELV OR ED WH THE MUNY, SAYS ASHOK ROW KAVI. “IN BOMBAY FOR EXAMPLE, THE LGBTQ MUNY THE WORD ‘GHODI’ TO MEAN A PLACLOTH POLICEMAN,” HE EXPLAS. A NEW USE

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THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’

PassifBottomThe gay person at the receivg end of sexual activy; the passive sexual partner. Un Ours / Un bearA bearA term for a bigger, hairier and olr gay guy.

FAT AND GAY

Chaser (or Chassr)A bear chaserThis is basilly a gay guy who prefers and pursu “bears”. ComtseCountsA homosexual (ually of regular age) who is well-mannered, elegant and often fancially secure.

DiscretDiscreetA rerved and secretive gay guy who manag his sexual liaisons privately. Gran dameA somewhat aloof gay adult who flamboyantly paras around bars and generally ignor the other guts. SubmissiveA gay man who lik to play a subordate and passive sexual role.

YAG (Gay upsi down)Homosexuals who refe to be associated wh a gay group or muny and are regnised by their liftyle. ConclnFrench gay slang, like s unterparts English and other languag n be pretty funny but also offensive. In se you want to add more or know the English slang for some of the ems mentned above, feel ee to sound off the ments more related readgs, check out the followg:What is like to be gay France?

HOW TO SAY GAY FRENCH

):Heo is reworþe day, grace, stout, ant gay, gentil, lyf so þe iay.

HOW DO YOU SAY GAY FRENCH?

1385:Pernter his brids wise a layOf love, that ma hire herte sh and gay.

(By chance, his bird’s manner [sang] a songOf love, that ma her heart h and gay.