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:
- MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX
- THE ORIG OF THE WORD ‘GAY’ S HOMOSEXUAL NTEXT
- WE WERE GAY UNTIL WE MET EACH OTHER: OUR UNUAL HETEROSEXUAL LOVE STORY
- THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
- THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX
by N. David Williams Williams-Nichols Collectn Department of Archiv & Special Collectns Universy of Louisville Use of the word "gay" a homosexual ntext may date to as long ago as Paris the late 16th century, when homosexuals were reportedly lled 'gai," but there are a uple of other trigug and perhaps more provable… * he was very gay and had already washed *
Police raids were equent gay bars, but the mafia often bribed them wh money, known as the gayola, to turn a bld eye and rume operatns. ”As the rts gaed momentum and verage the prs heightened, the neighborhood’s rints quickly anized to activist groups, and three newspapers, lled Gay, Come Out!
And Gay Power were tablished to promote gay and lbian rights. On June 28, 1970, the first gay pri march occurred New York, Los Angel, Chigo, and San Francis. Soon after, gay rights anizatns spng across the U.
O’Neill publicly apologized on behalf of the NYPD 2019 for the officers’ actns that night at start of anized gay activismThe Mattache Society and Dghter Of Bilis, two homophile anizatns created the 1950s, were mostly ncerned about assertg that homosexuals were rpectable, normal people that nformed to society’s image, so the trials of beg arrted for wearg clothg of oppose genr that most ncerned effemate men, mascule women, drag queens and transgenred people were nsired separate stggl. Profsor San Stryker asserts that the Compton’s Cafeteria rts that occurred 1966 San Francis, where drag queens, htlers, and trans women risked beg arrted, was an “act of anti-transgenr discrimatn, rather than an act of discrimatn agast sexual orientatn, where issu of genr, race, and class were beg downplayed by homophile anizatns.
THE ORIG OF THE WORD ‘GAY’ S HOMOSEXUAL NTEXT
Archaelogists have unvered what they believe to be the remas of the first-known gay, or transgenr, prehistoric man. * he was very gay and had already washed *
Rodwell’s first prry afterward was to tablish Christopher Street Liberatn Day New Mattache Society’s d methods no longer worked for people who felt empowered by the rts, so the Gay Liberatn Front was formed, wh Marsha P.
WE WERE GAY UNTIL WE MET EACH OTHER: OUR UNUAL HETEROSEXUAL LOVE STORY
* he was very gay and had already washed *
It was the first anizatn to e the word “gay. Fstrated members formed the more orrly Gay Activists Alliance. The APA subsequently voted unanimoly to remove homosexualy om the Diagnostic and Statistil, classism and transgenr equalyBut many groups were still margalized wh the LGBTQ+ muny.
THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
O’Leary also worked to exclu transgenred people om gay rights issu bee she thought they would be too difficult to obta. Lbian femism the 70s also nflicted wh the gay liberatn movement, as some lbians refed to work wh gay men.
They felt that the gay men’s attus were often patriarchal and chvistic. Issu most important to gays, such as entrapment and public solicatn, were not shared by Riviera worked hard wh the Gay Activists Alliance group to promote cywi gay rights and anti-discrimatn ordance, but when me down to makg als, the GAA dropped the portns the civil rights bill that alt wh transgenr rights and drag bee seemed too “extreme.
THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
Riviera also alt wh issu of poverty and discrimatn faced by people of lor, which ed ictn the GAA sce was maly ma up of whe middle-class gay people. Then, by 1973, Marsha and Silvia were banned om participatg the gay pri para by the gay and lbian mtee, statg that they “weren’t gog to allow drag queens at their march sce they were givg them a bad name. The duo cid to found Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari (STAR), a group that helped homels young drag queens, gay youth, and trans to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, people are protected to eely self-terme their genr inty and exprsn, regardls of e or race, and whout facg harassment, discrimatn, or vlence.