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.
Contents:
- SYNONYMS FOR GAY
- GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
- MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
- FOX'S MARK LEV: “THE WORD GAY ED TO MEAN HAPPY ... BUT NOT ANYMORE,” AND “YOU'RE JT TRYG TO DOMATE WH YOUR LANGUAGE”
- THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
SYNONYMS FOR GAY
Another way to say Gay? Synonyms for Gay (related to happy). * gay to mean 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.
GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
gay fn: 1. sexually or romantilly attracted to people of the same genr and not to people of a different…. Learn more. * gay to mean happy *
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.
The song was origally wrten by Tom Robson for a London gay pri. An out gay sger, he subsequently formed the. "Glad to Be Gay" is built around four vers cricizg Brish society's attus towards gay people.
MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
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.
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.
FOX'S MARK LEV: “THE WORD GAY ED TO MEAN HAPPY ... BUT NOT ANYMORE,” AND “YOU'RE JT TRYG TO DOMATE WH YOUR LANGUAGE”
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".
THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “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. Meang of gay English.
gay adjective.