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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. The Longer Oxford English Dictnary has, as s fifth and fal meang for fairy: ‘A male homosexual.
* fairy homosexual *
But how much earlier did ‘fairy’ mean homosexual?
This cis wh what is known of the peculiar societi of verts [homosexuals]. Jt recently I heard a iend of me tell how the e of fairy to refer to a gay male me om the time when men were typilly ed to play female parts plays and the type of male who would take the part was more effemate and often a homosexual.. Could fairy have been extend om there to mean homosexual?