The history of the word “gay” | The Gayly

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• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

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Many untri around the world have their own versn of queer slang, om Brish gay slang rived om the rhymg slang Polari to beki – the Philipp’ queer language that borrows om a slew of sourc, cludg pop culture, Japane, Spanish, and the untry’s lol languag.

But the Onle Slang Dictnary c 1960s gay male culture as the earlit known source, particularly rtoonist Joe Johnson’s characters “Miss Thg” and “Big Dick”, which appeared early issu of The Advote. Homosexualy remaed illegal across the Uned Stat the mid-twentieth century – that is, until Illois beme the first state to crimalize same-sex relatns 1962.

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In the 60s and 70s, gay men even had a “hanky ” – a system that volved wearg bandanas wh lors that signified whether you were a top, bottom, to BDSM, etc. Judy Garland, who played Dorothy the film, was also a queer in who patronized gay bars and often surround herself wh queer iends. In the 60s, Lesch was the print of a gay rights anizatn lled the Mattache Society and me up wh the “Sip-In” – a monstratn held at New York Cy bars that banned service to out gay people.

Lesch scribed nti as “agg or middle-aged homosexuals, offtim effemate character” and people of “settled meanor who utns agast temperate acts”. Another siar term, “light the loafers”, is a somewhat rogatory phrase that is ed to scribe someone who acts or appears to be gay. The drag fai beme a refuge for gay, trans, and genr non-nformg youth who were turned away by their own fai or experienced homelsns due to poverty.

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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. 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. 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. 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.

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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. 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. A New UseToday, though gay has bee synonymo wh homosexual, the Washgton Post 2017 published an article on whether social perceptns about the two are really the same, after a news webse reportedly published an article wh the headle “Homosexual eas to 100 fal at Olympic trials’, followg Olympian Tyson Gay’s qualifitn for the 100-metre n fal.

“The mistake was ed by the se’s edorial filter, which changed the athlete’s last name tomatilly — keepg wh the outlet’s policy agast nng stori that e the term ‘gay’, replacg wh ‘homosexual’ stead.” The first fn of gay the Oxford dictnary is: adjective; (of a person) homosexual (ed pecially of a man), though Rao clarifi that gay is not genr specific, as lbian is. Those of who teach genr studi, e the phrase ‘gay man’ while referrg to a homosexual man,” he says, addg, “Queer as an inty is more radil.” A few years back, a petn was started to make the Merriam Webster dictnary change the orr of s fns of gay. “Of, relatg to, or characterised by a tenncy to direct sexual sire toward another of the same sex” is the fourth fn of gay that dictnary.