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WHY THIS CHARMG GAY FAIRYTALE HAS BEEN LOST FOR 200 YEARS
For much of the 20C 'fairy' was ed to mean 'gay'. Where do this sense e om and when was first ed? Probably the US's east ast the late 19C. * fairy homosexual *
Gay Fairi: When and Why. But somewhere down the list is a gay man.
But there are, fact, a number of works of cultural history that make somethg of the fairy = gay nnectn.
* fairy homosexual *
The Longer Oxford English Dictnary has, as s fifth and fal meang for fairy: ‘A male homosexual. But how much earlier did ‘fairy’ mean homosexual?