Perhaps you remember when Gee Haton starred the movie "Zorro: The Gay Bla." While some objected to the movie's tle, there's a history to . Do you know ?
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Posted by RRC on Febary 24, 2008 at 18:09:In Reply to: As gay as a bla posted by Evan on Febary 24, 2008 at 09:12:: What is the orig of the phrase "As gay as a bla"? A gay bla origally refered to a dashg swordsman whose sword was often upright and at the ready. Later was applied to any gallant young morn tim, the change of meang of the word gay and the movie "Zorro: The Gay Bla" ( which the famo swordsman has a homosexual tw brother) have greatly fluenced/changed the meang of the dog show parlance, a gay tail is one that is upright and sometim curvg over the back not unlike an upright sword (though I don't know for sure that the two meangs are related).
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GAY BLA
In other words, the gay life was a life of loose morals and so mal and femal who were cled to leadg immoral liv were said to be gay.
It only took three hundred more years for the word to refer to male homosexuals.