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Contents:

• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• GAY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO E THE WORD "GAY" BS OR AMIL WRGS? [DUPLITE]
• HAPPY VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?HAPPY | GAY |AS ADJECTIV THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAPPY AND GAYIS THAT HAPPY IS EXPERIENCG THE EFFECT OF FAVOURABLE FORTUNE; HAVG THE FEELG ARISG OM THE NSCNS OF WELL-BEG OR OF ENJOYMENT; ENJOYG GOOD OF ANY KD, AS PEACE, TRANQUILLY, FORT; NTENTED; JOYO WHILE GAY IS HAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.AS A PROPER NOUN GAY IS{{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS A NOUN GAY ISA HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN.AS A VERB GAY ISTO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL.HAPPY
• WHO ARE THE HAPPIT? STRAIGHTS AND GAYS, BUT NOT BISEXUALS
• DEFN OF 'GAY'
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• HOW TO BE HAPPY AS A GAY MAN
• ARE GAY MEN HAPPIER THAN STRAIGHT MEN?
• THE MEANG OF GAY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT
• HAPPY & GAY

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

Tom Robson a Brish mician and sger, one of the first, if not the very first pop artist who did not disguise or hi his homosexualy om the general public. 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.

"Glad to Be Gay" is built around four vers cricizg Brish society's attus towards gay people. In the first verse, criciz the Brish police for raidg gay pubs for no reason at all, once homosexualy had been crimalized sce the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act. In the send verse, pots to the hypocrisy of Gay News beg prosecuted for obsceny stead of porn magaz like magaz Playboy or the tabloid The Sun which publish photographs of topls girls on Page 3.

GAY

It also criciz the way homosexual people are portrayed other parts of the prs, pecially nservative newspapers News of the World and Sunday Exprs. On the third verse, pots out the extreme nsequenc of homophobia, such as vlence agast LGBT people.

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". It also helped that Tom Robson looked straight and was not the least mp, he did not f the stereotypil ia of how homosexuals looked and behaved. The younger actrs played Casey, the anchise's first-ever gay character.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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. My art will always remd me that healg never ends — jt like beg gay will never end. Rapoe, who is gay, is an outspoken advote for LGBTQ+ rights and was a lear the natnal team’s fight for genr equaly, which paid off last year when U.

WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO E THE WORD "GAY" BS OR AMIL WRGS? [DUPLITE]

Biren, also known as JEB, were leadg figur gay and lbian movements the District and surroundg areas. Jenna Lyons, the first openly gay hoewife, and Jsel Taank, the first Indian hoewife, jo the diverse st tend to better reprent all of the different kds of New Yorkers.

To tt the ncept, the agency is enrollg 2, 000 gay men willg to donate blood for a pilot study. The exampl are programmatilly piled om var onle sourc to illtrate current age of the word 'gay. (Defn of gay om the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictnary & Ths © Cambridge Universy Prs).

HAPPY VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?HAPPY | GAY |AS ADJECTIV THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAPPY AND GAYIS THAT HAPPY IS EXPERIENCG THE EFFECT OF FAVOURABLE FORTUNE; HAVG THE FEELG ARISG OM THE NSCNS OF WELL-BEG OR OF ENJOYMENT; ENJOYG GOOD OF ANY KD, AS PEACE, TRANQUILLY, FORT; NTENTED; JOYO WHILE GAY IS HAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.AS A PROPER NOUN GAY IS{{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS A NOUN GAY ISA HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN.AS A VERB GAY ISTO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL.HAPPY

(Defn of gay om the Cambridge Amic Content Dictnary © Cambridge Universy Prs).

I know that that was a joke, but is still appropriate to say gay to refer that someone's happy or merry the days? In the se of the word gay, popular age the days would tend to flt to the homosexual terpretatn, but 's not a semantic shift. So short, y, 's still appropriate to e the word gay the sense of happy, so long as 's prented appropriate ntext.

\n Explorg the different meangs of a ntroversial word “gay” is everywhere you look the days. Gay activists support gay rights such as gay marriage, while gay-bashers prott all thgs gay, cludg the gayby boom.

WHO ARE THE HAPPIT? STRAIGHTS AND GAYS, BUT NOT BISEXUALS

There’s also been a rash of suicis volvg gay youngsters who were bullied—which is perhaps why the trailer for The Dilemma ught major flak. I mean, not homosexual gay, but, you know, my-parents-are-chaperong-the-dance gay.

Most people are very aware of the meang of “gay” as happy or lame, but the word has had an astoundg range of other meangs as well. What “gay” means pends entirely on your time perd and perspective, and the days, perspective n be hard to fd.

” The sense of “gay” as happy or merry dat om the 1400s and spired some bizarrely specific sens, such as “of a horse: lively, prancg” and “of a dog's tail: rried high or erect. ” In several earlier fns, we n see the seeds of “gay” begng to mean homosexual, if only bee the meangs f wh what would bee gay stereotyp.

DEFN OF 'GAY'

“Wh gay abandon” started meang “wh reckls abandon” the mid-1800s.

“Gay” also meant somethg like “prostute-y” the 1800s, as a “gay woman” or “gay girl” was what we ll a sex worker the days. Another sense, ed sce the 1500s, fs gay stereotyp like a rctnist glove: “... ” As far as we n tell, “gay” only started meang homosexual the early 1940s.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

They were together then and traveled to another place and stayed there and were gay there... This example om that year shows jt how -flux (and vert) the meang was: “Supposg one met a stranger on a tra om Boston to New York and wanted to fd out whether he was ‘wise’ or even homosexual. ’ And by a slight accent put on the word ‘gay’ the stranger, if wise, would unrstand that homosexual rorts were meant.

” Meanwhile, exampl of “gay” meang “lame” don't turn up until the 1970s. Let’s take another look at them: “Ladi and gentleman, electric gay.

On the one hand, ’s 100 percent unrstandable why GLAAD is a ltle sensive to anythg that sounds like gay-bashg. If I uld, I would personally bash gay-bashers wh a nuclear bomb.

HOW TO BE HAPPY AS A GAY MAN

Though this has been wily referred to as a “gay joke, ” I don’t see any joke at all.

ARE GAY MEN HAPPIER THAN STRAIGHT MEN?

Isn’t Vghn’s clarifitn—“not homosexual gay, but, you know, my-parents-are-chaperong-the-dance gay”—equivalent to the famo Sefeld “Not that there’s anythg wrong wh that”? I also have trouble seeg what the “lame” sense of “gay” has to do wh homosexualy.

As I unrstand the homophobic viewpot, gay people are nsired sners and evil-doers—a lot worse than lame, right? If the llective gay people of the world uld magilly transform all “gays are abomatns” sentiment to “gays are like, totally lame, ” I have a feelg they would take that barga, bee nobody bothers to legally discrimate agast the lame.

Maybe gay people n miserate wh the physilly lame, who lost the battle over that word years ago.

THE MEANG OF GAY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT

The dislike of “gay” is an awful lot like the dislike of “retard”—both words, when ed sultgly, are hated for reasons that are very passnate. Siarly, wh so much real, horrible homophobia the world, tryg to censor the “lame” sense of gay is a waste of energy and a losg battle. Happy | gay |As adjectiv the difference between happy and gayis that happy is experiencg the effect of favourable fortune; havg the feelg arisg om the nscns of well-beg or of enjoyment; enjoyg good of any kd, as peace, tranquilly, fort; ntented; joyo while gay is happy, joyful, and a proper noun Gay is{{surname|A=An|English|om=nicknam}}, origally a nickname for a cheerful or lively a noun gay isa homosexual, pecially a male homosexual; see also a verb gay isto make happy or cheerful.

* trigger-happygayEnglishProper noun(en proper noun), origally a nickname for a cheerful or lively the word gay, "joyful"; rare today..

Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and siar nam, or transferred om the surname. * 1992, Unto the Sons, Ballante Books 1993, ISBN 0804110336, page 15- - - my father's father, Gaetano Tale ( whose name I hered after my birth 1932, the anglicized om of "Gay "), was an atypilly fearls traveler, * 2004, Bad Dirt, Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32"Mr Gay Brawls. ” Optns of gay/lbian; bisexual; heterosexual or straight; or don’t know.

HAPPY & GAY

” [only 4 optns, neglect inti such as mostly straight, pansexual, mostly gay, asexual, kk, qutng].

Only 2% intified as gay/lbian and only 2% intified as bisexual. Counter to mon sense, over a third of those wh lifelong same-sex partners and nearly half of those wh lifelong both-sex partners intified not as gay or bisexual but as straight.