by Jordan Redman Staff Wrer Do you know what the word gay really means? The word gay dat back to the 12th century and om the Old French “gai,” meang “full of joy or mirth.” It may also relate to the Old High German “gahi,” meang impulsive.
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GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
If "gay" n mean both "homosexual" and "lame," do make homophobic to e for the latter? A discsn of a ntroversial word. * does gay mean beautiful *
\n Explorg the different meangs of a ntroversial word “gay” is everywhere you look the days.
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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 HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
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The origal sense of “gay” was entirely posive.
” 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. “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: “... Charl Victor Fremy was sometim very, very gay.
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” As far as we n tell, “gay” only started meang homosexual the early 1940s.
They were together then and traveled to another place and stayed there and were gay there... Not very gay there, jt gay there. They were both gay there.
” The earlit OED exampl of “gay” meang homosexual are om 1941. 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.