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Contents:
- GAY (ADJ.)
- THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
- GAY
- ROOT WORD HOMO HOMOSEXUAL? IS THERE A WORD LIKE MISANDRY SPECIFILLY FOR GAY MEN? [CLOSED]
- HOW TO SAY GAY LAT
GAY (ADJ.)
GAY Meang: "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, reee;" also "wanton, lewd, lasciv" (late 12c. as a surname,… See orig and meang of gay. * gay latin root meaning *
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.
THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
* gay latin root meaning *
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. early 14th century, Dante, “Canto I”, Inferno, l 64–66:Quando viddi ctui nel gran disertoMiserere di me gridai ad luiqual che tu sii o ombra o homo certoWhen I saw him the vast sert, I cried unto him "Have py on me, whichever you are, or shadow or real man!
Fortune mak men shortsighted, fatuat them: fortuna es hom effic, animos ocetmy most timate acquatance: homo tim, faiarissim miho be every one's mouth: ore omnium or omnib (homum or homib, but only mihi, tibi, etc. 18)many men, many mds: quot hom, tot sententiaewh the memory of man: post homum memoriamwh the memory of man: post hom natoslearned, scientific, lerary men: hom lteram studsilearned, scientific, lerary men: hom doctia man of learng; a scholar; a savant: vir or homo doct, lteratfor a Roman he is cidly well ted: sunt illo, ut home Romano, multae lterae (De Sen.
33)an acplished dialectician: homo dialecticis versatissimmoral science; ethics: philosophia, qua bonis reb et malis, que homum va et morib disputatura nscient historian: homo historia diligensa sger, member of a choir: (homo) symphoniaca w; a joker: (homo) ridicul (Plt. 21)a man of no self-ntrol, self-dulgent: homo impotens suia man of no self-ntrol, self-dulgent: homo efenat, temperansa moral (immoral) man: homo bene (male) morata praved, abandoned character: homo perda man of character, wh a strong personaly: vir nstans, gravis (opp. ) gerentan experienced polician: homo re publi exercata parvenu (a man no member of whose fay has held cule office): homo novpeople of every rank: hom omnis generispeople of every rank and age: hom omnium ordum et aetatumone of the people: homo plebei, plebea popular man: rae popularis homo (Liv.
GAY
Havelock Ellis, "Studi Psychology, " 1897]Sexual versn (1883, later simply versn, by 1895) was an earlier clil term for "homosexualy" English, said by Ellis to have origated Italian psychology wrg. By the 1970s, the term ‘gay man’ had bee firmly entrenched s current meang, referrg only to ‘homosexual men’, which was a far cry om jt a hundred years earlier, when meant ‘womaniser’ or ‘sexually unhibed man’. 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”).
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.
ROOT WORD HOMO HOMOSEXUAL? IS THERE A WORD LIKE MISANDRY SPECIFILLY FOR GAY MEN? [CLOSED]
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. 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).
HOW TO SAY GAY LAT
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.