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Contents:

• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• GAY (ADJ.)
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

In May, the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s board voted 3 to 2 to reject a new curriculum that clud discsns on the gay rights movement and mentned Harvey Milk, the first out gay man elected to public office California. That same year, Pieters beme a natnal spokperson for AIDS awarens and gay polil activism after his historic terview wh televangelist Tammy Faye on her broadst, which fied the work's homophobic tennci. Adjective, gay·er, gay·, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of their own sex or genr: A gay uple strolled by on the, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted only to people of their own sex or genr: Gay and bisexual men are both discsed this, ditg, or supportg terts or issu pertag to gay people or the gay muny: He giv charable ntributns to a gay anizatn.

A person, pecially a man, who is sexually or romantilly attracted exclively to people of the same sex or of gay1First rerd 1275–1325; Middle English gai, om Old French “happy, cheerful, ” om Germanic; pare Old High German gāhi “fast, sudn”age alert For gayThe sexual orientatn meang of the word gay has bee so predomant that people hate to e the term s origal sens of “merry, lively” and “bright or showy. Other words om gaygay·ns, nounnon·gay, adjectiveWords Nearby gaygawkgawkygawpGawragawsygayGayagayalGaya MaretangayatrigaydarOther fns for Gay (2 of 2)nounJohn, 1685–1732, English poet and dramatist.

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GAY

After a moment's silence, the valiers both burst to a gay had Tom seen his gay and rels such guise: he was rtls, silent, tense and had not been for the prence of Mamoiselle Stéphanie, would not have been gay for box of the diplomatic rps was jt oppose , and our gay ltle Mrs. Brish Dictnary fns for gay (1 of 2)adjectivehomosexualof or for homosexuals: a gay clubreee and merry: a gay temperamentbrightly loured; brilliant: a gay hatgiven to pleasure, p social entertament: a gay lifeOrig of gay1C13: om Old French gai, om Old Provençal, of Germanic origage For gayGayns is the word ed to refer to homosexualy. Gay ts were severely and celly abed by "real" tramps and bums, who nsired them "an ferr orr of begs who begs of and otherwise preys upon the bum — as were a jackal followg up the kg of beasts" [Prof.

In "Soclogy and Social Rearch" (1932-33) a paragraph on the "gay t" phenomenon not, "Homosexual practic are more mon than rare this group, " and gey t "homosexual boy" is attted Noel Erske's 1933 dictnary of "Unrworld & Prison Slang" (gey is a Sttish variant of gay) "Dictnary of Amerin Slang" reports that gay (adj. As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”.

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer.

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For example, the 1938 film, Brgg Up Baby, Cary Grant dons a feathery robe when his cloth are sent to the cleaners and says, “...I jt went gay.” 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. Until then homosexual actors, micians, athlet or anyone the public eye had two choic life: to keep their homosexualy a secret, pecially om the media, or adopt the mannerisms and a of drs which were very mp but at the same time (ironilly) never admtg their sexual preferenc publicly. Tom Robson released a very succsful song entled (Sg if you're) Glad to be Gay, was the mid-70s, and I was still at a Catholic primary school when I remember que distctly hearg gay beg ed for the first time to unteract the BrEng rogatory terms such as: poofter, poof, queer, not normal, fairy and queen that were rife at the time.

For me, a young child livg London at the time, the term gay (meang homosexual and not "happy") was ed much more equently by the media and the general public after the release of "Glad to be Gay". Gay suggts a lightns of heart or livels of mood that is openly manifted:when hearts were young and dit a good-humored, natural, expansive gaiety of mood or disposn:a jolly crowd at a suggts gladns, happs, rejoicg:joyful over the good is often terchangeable wh gay:a merry disposn; a merry party; suggts, even more than the latter, nvivial animated enjoyment. gay /ɡeɪ/ adj homosexual of or for homosexuals: a gay club reee and merry: a gay temperament brightly loured; brilliant: a gay hat given to pleasure, p social entertament: a gay life n a homosexualEtymology: 13th Century: om Old French gai, om Old Provençal, of Germanic origˈgayns n USAGEGayns is the word ed to refer to homosexualy.

GAY (ADJ.)

[only before noun] nnected wh people who are gaya gay club/barthe lbian and gay munythe gay and lbian sectn the bookstoreOxford Collotns Dictnaryverbsbelooksound…adverbopenlyphrasgay and lbianSee full entry. [not before noun] (slang, disapprovg, offensive) (ed pecially by young people) an offensive way to scribe somethg you fd borg, stupid or not attractive (parative gayer, superlative gayt) (old-fashned) happy and full of fungay lghterShe felt lighthearted and gay.

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

See also gaiety, gailyWord OrigMiddle English ( sense (4)): om Old French gai, of unknown whout thkg about the rults or effects of a particular actn See gay the Oxford Advanced Amerin DictnarySee gay the Oxford Learner's Dictnary of Amic EnglishCheck pronunciatn:. Given to social pleasur, pecially at the expense of ser pursus: "You know she is gay, and wild, lov pany and mirth, and that was her impatience of rtrat the thgs, that ma the breach between her and her father" (Daniel Defoe). But there is no objectn to the e of the noun the plural to refer llectively eher to gay men or to gay men and lbians, so long as is clear whether men alone or both men and women are beg discsed.

1685–1732, English poet and dramatist; thor of The Beggar's Opera (1728)Colls English Dictnary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edn 2014 © HarperColls Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014gay (geɪ) adj., -er, -t, n., adv. ThsAntonymsRelated - someone who practic homosexualy; havg a sexual attractn to persons of the same sexhomo, homophile, homosexualdividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human beg; "there was too much for one person to do"gay man - a homosexual mangay woman, triba - a female - bright and pleasant; promotg a feelg of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny se"cheery, sunnycheerful - beg full of or promotg cheer; havg or showg good spirs; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greetg"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone nfed to a hospal bed uld be" - full of or showg high-spired merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet uld not but be gay, such a jocund pany"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the rnn"; "jolly old Sat Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry lghter"; "a mirthful lgh"jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthfuljoyo - full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyo abandon"; "joyo lghter" - given to social pleasur often cludg dissipatn; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue wh an eye for the ladi"dulgent - characterized by or given to yieldg to the wish of someone; "dulgent grandparents" - brightly lored and showy; "girls cked out brave new drs"; "brave banners flyg"; "`braw' is a Sttish word"; "a drs a b too gay for her years"; "birds wh gay plumage"braw, bravelourful, lorful - strikg variety and tert; "a lorful perd of history"; "a lorful character"; "lorful language" - offerg fun and gaiety; "a ftive (or ftal) ocsn"; "gay and excg night life"; "a merry eveng"ftal, ftive, merryjoyo - full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyo abandon"; "joyo lghter" - homosexual or arog homosexual sirhomophile, queerBased on WordNet 3. Cheerful, happy, bright, glad, lively, sparklg, sunny, jolly, animated, merry, upbeat (rmal), buoyant, cheery, joyo, joyful, reee, jnty, chirpy (rmal), vivac, jovial, gleeful, bonair, blhe, souciant, full of beans (rmal), light-hearted I am good health, gay and cheerful.

Translatnsزاهٍلواطيلواطي، أحادي الجنسمَرِح، جَذِلбезгриженвеселхомосексуаленшаренhomosexuálhomosexuálníjásavýptrývelýbøssefarvtrålengladhomoseksuellbisk kvgajasamseksemaeläväenhilpeähomohomoseksuaaleniloenboldogmelegkátur, glaîværlskrúîugursamkynhneigîurgėjhomoseksualistashomoseksualistųhomoseksualjtrskošspriecīgsspilgtshomoseksualenvelgaygladhomohomosexuellltiggay [geɪ]A. © HarperColls Publishers 2005gay adj (+er)(= homosexual) person → schwul (f); (= for homosexuals) rights → für Schwule; sex → unter Schwulen; gay men and women → Schwule und Lben pl (f); gay movement → Schwulenbewegung f; gay bar → Schwulenkneipe f; gay marriage → gleichgchlechtliche Ehe, Homoehe f (f); gay group → Schwulengppe f; the gay muny → die Schwulen pl n → Schwule(r) mf; gay lib → die SchwulenbewegungColls German Dictnary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edn 2005. From Middle English gay, om Old French gai (“joyful, lghg, merry”), ually thought to be a borrowg of Old Occan gai (“impetuo, lively”), om Gothic *?????? (*gaheis, “impetuo”), mergg wh earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), om Frankish *gāhi;[1] both om Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudn”).

SYNONYMS OF GAY

The sense of homosexual (first rerd no later than 1937 by Cary Grant the film Brgg Up Baby, and possibly earlier 1922 the poem "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gert Ste[6][7]) was shortened om earlier gay t ("homosexual boy") unrworld and prison slang, self first attted about 1935, but ed earlier for a young tramp or hobo attached to an olr one. 2003, Michael McAvennie, The World Wrtlg Entertament Yearbook:She uldn't even ga accs om a fay iend whose name was on the list, nor uld she e her feme charms to turn on the staff member, who revealed he was gay and was more imprsed seeg Billy and Chuck enter the buildg.

2005, Mark Caldwell, New York Night, page 133:Of the dozen or so survivg articl, squibs, and letters to the edor, the most remarkable appeared the Whip and Satirist’s Febary 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a bal of gay men New York's otherwise wholome nightspe of brothels and rts.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY

Among the syndite of perverts, the wrer announced, "we fd no Amerins as yet—they are all Englishmen or French" (the English lled homosexualy the French vice and the French the English vice; for the Whip was the French and English vice).

The two failed attempts to receive the necsary accs to medilized transn procr by the renowned FTM activist Lou Sullivan—a gay man who refed to ply wh the imperative that transsexual men mt sire women— […]. 2010, Noėl Sturgeon, Environmentalism Popular Culture: Genr, Race, Sexualy, and the Polics of the Natural, page 128:In fact, as several letter wrers to the New York Tim poted out their rponse to the article, the disjuncture between the two popularized pengus shows how radilly separated om each other are muni of gay people and muni of right-wg relig nservativ: if the Christian fundamentalists had looked up "gay pengus" or even "pengus" on the Inter, they would have enuntered several gay pengu s, cludg the story of Roy and Silo, the Central Park Zoo gay pengu uple about whom a children's book was wrten; the saga of the gay pengu muny at a German zoo; and the mpaign of Gay Pengu for Print (whose slogan was "Gee W. 1977, Charl Silverste, Edmund Whe, The Joy of Gay Sex, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:Gays meet each other special-tert social groups—gay softball leagu, gay bike clubs, gay gymnasia, gay activist polil anizatns, the Gay Amic Unn (an anizatn for gay teachers, scholars and stunts), gay universy stunt clubs and so on.

2003, Lawrence Block, Small Town, page 269:He might well have spected Cheek was a gay bar whout seeg any of s patrons, simply bee was a neighborhood where most of the bars were gay, and bee you uldn't see the wdows.

2014, Christopher Schaberg, Robert Bent, Denstctg Brad Pt, Bloomsbury Publishg USA, →ISBN, page 211:Beg gay for Brad, even a teensy b, is at the very least beg able to image the potential for queerns. In a sense, like the recent popular and cril furor over men who are gay-for-pay, beg gay for Brad is what Jefey Esffier f as "suatnal homosexualy, " or other forms of man-on-man behavr […] In other words, rather than worry over whether or not men who are queer for Brad n easily be labeled as straight or gay, […].

2005, Jason Christopher Hartley, “October 23, 2004: This Is My Weapon, This Is My Gerber”, Jt Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground Iraq, HarperColls, published 2005, →ISBN, page 25:This cint has bee a source of much discsn, and the jury is still out on who is more gay: the guy who touched a dick or the guy who let a guy touch his dick. 1905, Barons Emmka Orczy, chapter 2, The Affair at the Novelty Theatre‎[7]:Miss Phyllis Man, as the hapls heroe drsed the shabbit of cloth, appears the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophis all and sundry there, cludg the villa, and has a magnificent scene which always brgs down the hoe, and nightly adds to her histrnic lrels. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickerg […], 1873, →OCLC:A Beavie of fair women, richly gay / In gems and wanton drs.

John, The Subalpe kgdom: or, Experienc and studi Savoy, Piedmont, and Genoa, volume 2, page 158:Prce Bhe was what is lled a "gay, dissipated man"—that is to say, a powerful person leadg a bched and famo life.

1879, Great Bra, Reports om mte, Hoe of Commons, page 61:[…] is possible for people to be diseased whout beg prostut or gay women; is possible for people years ago to have spent a gay life and to have not got rid of their disease, or they may have bee diseased by their hbands or lovers. 1889, Albert Barrère, Charl Godey Leland, A Dictnary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracg English, Amerin, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidg English, Tker's Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology‎[8], volume 1, page 399:Gay (mon), loose, dissipated; a "gay woman" or "gay girl, " a prostute.

E., bched, than Zeno's urt, so the ladi of gay disposn had great sway ; particularly one, whose name was Fsta, who, though not extremely handsome, was by her w and sprightls very agreeable to the emperor. Some claim that homosexual is dated and evok a time when homosexualy was nsired a mental illns by the mental health muny, while others feel that the word homosexual(y) do not exprs the emotnal aspects of sexual orientatn.

When ed ordatn wh other terms for sexual orientatns, ually specifilly refers to men who are attracted only to men, and exclus lbians, bisexuals and other orientatns, as phras like lbian, gay and bisexual (LGB).

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If however the stranger be spected of “sailg unr false lours, " when they are all faiar chat about nothg particular, “Co Jacky” will take ocsn to say to the new chum, “My ar; d 'e ever see a duck clunk a gay? 1869, Joseph Carr, Sketch of village life, by “Eavdropper”, page 60:Now, to end my story, if o' t' village beti wad g t' relign that good ld parson Jenks remends, wad gay sharply mak' t' dirty women clean, […]. ' For Rivera, 'gay' meant non-heteronormative (or 'queer' today's lexin), crossg sexual and genr boundari to clu lbians, gay men, and transvt, as well as the street youth who had participated Stonewall.

In some s transgenr people are also clud the term, although many transgenr people do not nsir themselv gay or lbian, and at some pots gay history, transgenr rights were nsired part of the gay rights movement. ^ Lacey Sloan, Nora Gtavsson, Vlence and Social Injtice Agast Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual People (2014, →ISBN), page 116: Lata lbians, Lato gays and bisexuals may experience a triple stigma and opprsn when they are not fully accepted the gay muny bee of their ethnicy[. From English gay, om Middle English gay, om Old French gai (“joyful, lghg, merry”), ually thought to be a borrowg of Old Occan gai (“impetuo, lively”), om Gothic *?????? (*gaheis, “impetuo”), mergg wh earlier Old French jai (“"merry"”), om Frankish *gāhi, both om Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudn”).