Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• GAY
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• DEFN OF 'GAY'
• GAY= HAPPY (ED THE DAY?)
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAYGEɪGAY
• THE MEANG OF GAY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT
• HOW ‘GAY’ GOT S RABOW: WHAT ONCE MEANT MERRY IS NOW A BADGE OF INTY FOR HOMOSEXUALS HDTAN TIM | BYPOULOMI BANERJEE SEP 21, 2018 04:18 PM IST SHARE VIA COPY LK THE DICTNARY TRAC THE ORIG OF GAY TO THE FRENCH WORD GAI. BUT HOW DID SOMETHG THAT MEANT CHEERFUL BEE SYNONYMO WH HOMOSEXUALS, WHO HAVE HAD TO FIGHT LONG AND HARD FOR THEIR INTY? IF (ISDEVICEENABLED('SMALL') || ISDEVICEENABLED('MEDIUM') && !ADFREE) { (FUNCTN () { GOOGLETAG.DISPLAY('DIV-GPT-AD-1524814893923-0'); }); } 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. “I AM SO GAY TODAY…” HE WROTE A G-OUT POST THAT HAS SCE GONE VIRAL. BUT WHILE NANDY’S CHOICE OF WORD WAS BANG ON THAT DAY, HOW DID A WORD THAT HAD ORIGALLY MEANT LIGHT-HEARTED, REEE OR CHEERFUL, BEE ASSOCIATED WH A MUNY WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN OFTEN BEEN ANYTHG BUT? CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN THE 1938 FILM BRGG UP BABY, WHERE GRANT ED THE WORD ‘GAY’ ON SCREEN. 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. MERRIAM WEBSTER TAK FURTHER BACK TO A GERMANIC ORIG “AK TO THE OLD HIGH GERMAN GAHI” THAT MEANT “QUICK OR SUDN”. 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. IT WAS AROUND THIS TIME THAT THE MUNY STARTED G THE WORD GAY TO INTIFY SELF. 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. 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. ““WHEREAS HOMOSEXUALY IS JT A WORD NOTG A SEXUAL PREFERENCE OR TENNCY AND ED ROGATORILY, GAY IS AN INTY. 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. “IT WAS A SUBVERSN OF THE TABLISHED VOBULARY BY THE MUNY. THE SAME WAY THAT ‘QUEER’ WOULD BE ED, LATER ON,” HE ADDS. “WHILE THE NVENTNAL MEANG OF QUEER IS WEIRD, AND IS A DISCRIMATORY TERM SELF, THE MUNY HAS BEEN G AS AN INTY,” HE POTS OUT. THE LGBTQ HAVE THEIR OWN VOBULARY, ONE THAT OFTEN VARI OM CY TO CY, AND HAS TAKEN ON REGULAR WORDS THAT MEAN SOMETHG QUE DIFFERENT WHEN APPLIED TO THEMSELV OR ED WH THE MUNY, SAYS ASHOK ROW KAVI. “IN BOMBAY FOR EXAMPLE, THE LGBTQ MUNY THE WORD ‘GHODI’ TO MEAN A PLACLOTH POLICEMAN,” HE EXPLAS. A NEW USE
• GAY
• MEANG OF GAY – LEARNER’S DICTNARY
• SYNONYMS FOR GAY
• WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO E THE WORD "GAY" BS OR AMIL WRGS? [DUPLITE]

GAY

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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. 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.

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.

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

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". 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. World War II, as social attus toward sexualy began to change, gay was applied openly by homosexuals to themselv, first as an adjective and later.

For centuri, gay was ed monly speech and lerature to mean happy, reee, bright and showy, and did not take on any sexual meang until the 1600s.

DEFN OF 'GAY'

In the 1890s, the term “gey t” (a Sttish variant of gay) was ed to scribe a vagrant who offered sexual servic to women or a young traveler who was new to the road and the pany of an olr man. This latter e suggts that the younger man was a sexually submissive role and may be among the first tim that gay was ed implyg a homosexual relatnship.

GAY= HAPPY (ED THE DAY?)

In 1951, gay appeared the Oxford English Dictnary for the first time as slang for homosexual, but was most likely ed this way “unrground” at least 30 years earlier. ” This le (ad-libbed by Grant) n be terpreted to mean that he was behavg a happy-go-lucky or lighthearted way but is accepted by many as the first e of gay to mean homosexual a mastream movie. When gay is ed today to mean stupid or unsirable ( has only been ed this way sce the 1990s), rri wh a history of negative judgment and rigid ias about who or what is acceptable.

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MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

In morn English, "gay" has e to be ed as an adjective, and as a noun, referrg to the people, pecially to mal, and the practic and cultur associated wh homosexualy.

By the end of the 20th century, the word "gay" was remend by major LGBT groups and style guis to scribe people attracted to members of the same sex. In this e, the word do not mean "homosexual", so n be ed, for example, to refer to an animate object or abstract ncept of which one disapprov. Cens Bure, Gay is ranked #1094 terms of the most mon surnam Gay surname appeared 32, 025 tim the 2010 cens and if you were to sample 100, 000 people the Uned Stat, approximately 11 would have the surname Gay.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

NumerologyChalan NumerologyThe numeril value of GAY Chalan Numerology is: 5Pythagorean NumerologyThe numeril value of GAY Pythagorean Numerology is: 6Exampl of GAY a SentenceDirectors Pl and Alicia Schneir:In 2019, when we first started workg on this project, 70 new Christmas movi premiered on the ma ble Christmas movie channels and none of them ntaed gay lead characters or storyl.

Entertaer Penn Jillette:The people are not beg asked to engage gay sex or even endorse gay sex, they're beg asked to sell flowers and ke to people. Print Barack Obama:I jt don't feel my marriage is somehow threatened by the gay uple next Norris:Policians ed to sh out of the way to avoid photos wh me. There is a much clearer and much softer attu toward gay Beyrer:The newly rtricted laws were actually makg the epimic for gay men worse that untry.

DEFINITIONS FOR GAYGEɪGAY

homoseksueel, moffie, gayAikaansمثلي, مثلية, لوطيArabichomoseksualist, geyAzerbaijaniгамасексуа́льны, гамасэксуалі́ст, гейBelasianхомосексуа́лен, шарен, безгрижен, весел, гей, хомосексуали́стBulgarianসমরতি, গেBengaligaia, gaiCatalan, Valencianhomosexuální, velý, homosexuál, gayCzechhoyw, llawen, sirlWelshbøsse, lbisk, glad, homoseksuel, livlig, farverig, sjov, homoDanishschwul, sgelassen, lbisch, ltig, bunt, öhlich, homosexuell, Homo, Schwuler, Homosexueller, GayGermanζωηρός, αδερφή, πούστικος, ομοφυλόφιλη, πούστης, εύθυμος, αδερφίστικος, λεσβία, παρδαλός, ομοφυλόφιλος, φαιδρόςGreekgeja, gaja, samseksama, samseksema, samseksemulo, gejoEsperantogay, amujerado, pen, femeno, ftivo, gayo, alegre, afemado, marinado, vívido, lorido, feliz, aburrido, fome, homosexual, marimachadoSpanishgei, ltlik, homoseksuaal, homoseksuaalneEstonianخوش حال, همجنس‌گرا, گی, هم‌جنس‌گراPersianiloen, hilpeä, homoseksuaalen, homo, eläväen, naismaen, korea, tyhmä, gei, gay, homoseksuaali, homppeliFnishglaðurFaroegai, homo, gay, gaieFrenchbán, aerach, spéiriúilIrishgèidh, -ghnèheach, -sheòrsach, gille-tòeSttish Gaelicלסבית, הומו, גֵּיי, עליזה, עליז, גיי, הוֹמוֹסֶקסוּאָלHebrewगे, समलिंगीHdimeleg, boldogHungarianարվամոլ, համասեռամոլ, գոմիկArmeniangay, gdseInterlguagayIndonianfelice, gay, gaia, effemmato, allegra, ga, omossuale, focch, lieto, allegro, lietaItalianהומוHebrewださい, 楽しい, 同性愛, つまらない, 派手, オカマ, 嬉しい, ゲイ, おかま, 同性愛者Japaneგეი, ჰომოსექსუალიGeianгомосексуалист, гейKazakhಸಲಿಂಗಕಾಮಿKannada동성애자, 게이, [[동성]]애의 [[사람]]Koreanгомосексуалист, кумса, гейKyrgyzgayLatກະເທີຍLaogėj, homoseksualasLhuaniangejs, homoseksuālsLatvianхо́мосексуален, геј, женствен, педерски, хо́мосексуалецMacedonianгэй, гомосексMongolianगेMarathisa, gembira, warna-warni, homoseksual, membosankan, gayMalaysissi, allegża, lfa, allegż, gay, pufta, ferħana, omosswali, ferħan, mxaqlebMalteဂေး, ဂန်ဒူးBurmehomo, gayNorwegianopgetogen, vrolijk, fetelijk, goedgezd, homoseksueel, monter, klrrijk, homofiel, verwijfd, ugelaten, homoDutchhomsete, fargerik, homo, ftlig, livlig, femi, homoseksuell, glad, bøg, morsom, soper, homseNorwegianwół, zmanierowany, radosny, homoseksualny, zniewieściały, gejPolishgay, efemado, vívido, guei, ftivo, alegre, ntente, sem graça, veado, feliz, chato, bicha, viadoPortuguegay, homo, homosexual, poponarRomanianге́йский, я́ркий, голубо́й, жема́нный, жизнера́достный, мане́рный, ра́достный, гомосексуа́льный, весёлый, цветно́й, гомосексуали́ст, гомосе́к, го́мик, гей, гомосексуа́лRsianхомосексуалан, homoseksualan, homoseksualac, геј, gej, лезбејка, lezbejka, хомосексуалацSerbo-CroatianසමරිසිShala, Shalehomosexuál, gay, gejSlovakhomoseksuálec, gejSlovenehomo, homoseksualAlbanianhomosexuell, grann, fjollig, bög, ltig, gay, bögig, glad, homoSwedishshoga, msenge, bashaSwahiliநம்பிTaగేTeluguҳамҷинсгароTajikเกย์, ตุ๊ดThaigeýTurkmenbakla, tibo, homoseksuwalTagalogeşcsel, homoseksüel, şen, renkli, nlı, ibne, iç açıcı, neşeli, parlak, homo, geyTurkishгомосексуа́льний, гомосексуалі́ст, ґей, гейUkraianگےUrdugomoseksualist, geyUzbekgay, người đồng tính, người đồng tính namVietnameפריילעךYiddish同性恋者Che Get even more translatns for GAY ». Adjective, gay·er, gay·, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of their own sex or genr: A gay uple strolled by on the, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted only to people of their own sex or genr: Gay and bisexual men are both discsed this, ditg, or supportg terts or issu pertag to gay people or the gay muny: He giv charable ntributns to a gay anizatn. Appropriately forward or bold; overly faiar; reckls: Gee got gay at the Christmas party and sudnly swept his boss's wife onto the dance floor.

A person, pecially a man, who is sexually or romantilly attracted exclively to people of the same sex or of gay1First rerd 1275–1325; Middle English gai, om Old French “happy, cheerful, ” om Germanic; pare Old High German gāhi “fast, sudn”age alert For gayThe sexual orientatn meang of the word gay has bee so predomant that people hate to e the term s origal sens of “merry, lively” and “bright or showy. After World War II, as social attus toward sexualy began to change, gay was applied openly by gay men to themselv, first as an adjective and later as a noun. Age note For gayWords like gay and lbian are often ed as umbrella terms scribg anyone who experienc same-genr attractn, and also as more specific labels.

THE MEANG OF GAY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT

Umbrella age, as gay marriage or lbian uple, typilly refers to any same-genr pairg, or to any person who is attracted to people of their own genr. Other words om gaygay·ns, nounnon·gay, adjectiveWords Nearby gaygawkgawkygawpGawragawsygayGayagayalGaya MaretangayatrigaydarOther fns for Gay (2 of 2)nounJohn, 1685–1732, English poet and dramatist.

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Brish Dictnary fns for gay (1 of 2)adjectivehomosexualof or for homosexuals: a gay clubreee and merry: a gay temperamentbrightly loured; brilliant: a gay hatgiven to pleasure, p social entertament: a gay lifeOrig of gay1C13: om Old French gai, om Old Provençal, of Germanic origage For gayGayns is the word ed to refer to homosexualy. Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Cultural fns for gayDcriptive term for New Dictnary of Cultural Leracy, Third Edn.

HOW ‘GAY’ GOT S RABOW: WHAT ONCE MEANT MERRY IS NOW A BADGE OF INTY FOR HOMOSEXUALS HDTAN TIM | BYPOULOMI BANERJEE SEP 21, 2018 04:18 PM IST SHARE VIA COPY LK THE DICTNARY TRAC THE ORIG OF GAY TO THE FRENCH WORD GAI. BUT HOW DID SOMETHG THAT MEANT CHEERFUL BEE SYNONYMO WH HOMOSEXUALS, WHO HAVE HAD TO FIGHT LONG AND HARD FOR THEIR INTY? IF (ISDEVICEENABLED('SMALL') || ISDEVICEENABLED('MEDIUM') && !ADFREE) { (FUNCTN () { GOOGLETAG.DISPLAY('DIV-GPT-AD-1524814893923-0'); }); } 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. “I AM SO GAY TODAY…” HE WROTE A G-OUT POST THAT HAS SCE GONE VIRAL. BUT WHILE NANDY’S CHOICE OF WORD WAS BANG ON THAT DAY, HOW DID A WORD THAT HAD ORIGALLY MEANT LIGHT-HEARTED, REEE OR CHEERFUL, BEE ASSOCIATED WH A MUNY WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN OFTEN BEEN ANYTHG BUT? CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN THE 1938 FILM BRGG UP BABY, WHERE GRANT ED THE WORD ‘GAY’ ON SCREEN. 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. MERRIAM WEBSTER TAK FURTHER BACK TO A GERMANIC ORIG “AK TO THE OLD HIGH GERMAN GAHI” THAT MEANT “QUICK OR SUDN”. 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. IT WAS AROUND THIS TIME THAT THE MUNY STARTED G THE WORD GAY TO INTIFY SELF. 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. 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. ““WHEREAS HOMOSEXUALY IS JT A WORD NOTG A SEXUAL PREFERENCE OR TENNCY AND ED ROGATORILY, GAY IS AN INTY. 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. “IT WAS A SUBVERSN OF THE TABLISHED VOBULARY BY THE MUNY. THE SAME WAY THAT ‘QUEER’ WOULD BE ED, LATER ON,” HE ADDS. “WHILE THE NVENTNAL MEANG OF QUEER IS WEIRD, AND IS A DISCRIMATORY TERM SELF, THE MUNY HAS BEEN G AS AN INTY,” HE POTS OUT. THE LGBTQ HAVE THEIR OWN VOBULARY, ONE THAT OFTEN VARI OM CY TO CY, AND HAS TAKEN ON REGULAR WORDS THAT MEAN SOMETHG QUE DIFFERENT WHEN APPLIED TO THEMSELV OR ED WH THE MUNY, SAYS ASHOK ROW KAVI. “IN BOMBAY FOR EXAMPLE, THE LGBTQ MUNY THE WORD ‘GHODI’ TO MEAN A PLACLOTH POLICEMAN,” HE EXPLAS. A NEW USE

Usually, gay means a gay man or homosexual man, but the word gay n also be ed as an umbrella term for all gay people, cludg a gay woman or nonbary person. Never e the word gay to sult or disparage someone, and make sure that you only scribe someone as gay if they have explicly told you that you n.

Example #3 The person origally thought they were a gay man, but then they started qutng their genr inty and realized they were actually a transgenr woman. Example #5 The young woman realized her sexual attractn to women when she was high school, but she was aaid of g out bee her fay thought that gay life and the LGBTQ liftyle were rpt. To learn how to say the word gay other languag bis the English language, you n e this list of translatns of the word gay om Nice Translator.

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Norwegian: homofilArabic: مثلي الجنسRomanian: gayUrdu: ہم جنس پرستGreek: γκέτοςPortugue (Portugal): gayTelugu: గేSerbian: гејGerman: FröhlichWelsh: hoywAmharic: ጋይDutch: gayMarathi: समलिंगीIcelandic: hommiFilipo: baklaSlovak: homosexuálnyBengali: সমকামীBasque: gerGujarati: લૈંગિકItalian: gayMalayalam: ഗെയ്Che (PRC): 同性恋Japane: ゲイKannada: ಸಲಿಂಗಕಾಮಿMalay: gayKorean: 게이Ukraian: гейSlovenian: gejIndonian: gayLatvian: gejsRsian: гейTurkish: eşcselFnish: homoDanish: homoseksuelFrench: gayEstonian: geiSwahili: mashogaSpanish: gayPortugue (Brazil): gayBulgarian: ГейCatalan: gaiLhuanian: gėjHungarian: melegCroatian: gayHebrew: הומוChe (Taiwan): 同性戀Hdi: समलैंगिकThai: เกย์Ta: கே What Are Synonyms of Gay? Animatedblissfulbrightbubblybuoyantreeecheerfulcheerychipperchirpynvivialbonaireffervcentenjoyableftalftiveflirtyolicsomegladgladsomegleefulhappyhigh-spiredhilarjocularjocundjollyjovialjoyfuljoyojubilantlghglbianlightlightheartedlivelymerrymirthfulpeppyperkyplayfulspiredsportivprightlysunnyvivacvivid What Are Antonyms of Gay? Agatedangryannoyedantsyanxapprehensivebotheredncernednfedjectedprsedsolatesponntdisncerteddisquieteddistrghtdistrseddisturbeddowndownstedgyexcedflteredgloomyglumhurtjteryjumpymelancholymiserablenervooverwroughtperturbedrtlssadsadnedsorrowfultensetroublneasyunhappyunnervnquietunsettlptightworried Concln The word gay is ually ed to scribe a person who is attracted to the same sex or genr.

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Sourc: Gay synonyms – 1 827 Words and Phras for Gay | Power Ths Gay antonyms – 424 Oppos of Gay | Power Ths Gay | Nice Translator Gay Defn & Meang | Kev Miller is a growth marketer wh an extensive background Search Enge Optimizatn, paid acquisn and email marketg. 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.

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”.

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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 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. 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.

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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. “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.