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Contents:

• GAY
• A TRILL OF GAY LGHTER
• GAY LGHTER
• 101 GAY JOK THAT WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY AND HOOTS OF LGHTER
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAYGEɪGAY
• GAY HUMOR QUOT

GAY

(of people, pecially men) sexually attracted to people of the same sex synonym homosexualgay menI didn't know he was she gay?

Oppose straightTopics People societyb2Oxford Collotns Dictnaryverbsbelooksound…adverbopenlyphrasgay and lbianSee full entry. [only before noun] nnected wh people who are gaya gay club/barthe lbian and gay munythe gay and lbian sectn the bookstoreOxford Collotns Dictnaryverbsbelooksound…adverbopenlyphrasgay and lbianSee full entry. [not before noun] (slang, disapprovg, offensive) (ed pecially by young people) an offensive way to scribe somethg you fd borg, stupid or not attractive (parative gayer, superlative gayt) (old-fashned) happy and full of fungay lghterShe felt lighthearted and gay.

A TRILL OF GAY LGHTER

See also gaiety, gailyWord OrigMiddle English ( sense (4)): om Old French gai, of unknown whout thkg about the rults or effects of a particular actn See gay the Oxford Advanced Amerin DictnarySee gay the Oxford Learner's Dictnary of Amic EnglishCheck pronunciatn:.

I was thrilled, as you n image, and after a trill of gay lghter, got down to . A trill of gay lghter sounds extremely girly and/or gay to me ~ fact, the whole sentence do. Gay ed to have the meang of 'happy', Kti, but nowadays almost exclively means 'homosexual'.

GAY LGHTER

I do not thk that the "gay" lobby has entirely monopolised the word gay, which n still be ed a few ntexts whout implyg sexual orientatn, one of which is gay lghter, whereas one hat to talk about gay bachelors any more, where the ambiguy would be too strong. Of urse, homosexuals did not actually pch the word, but took s applitn to them om those who ed as a mockg term for their kd.

Fortunately Charl II ("whose vigoro warmth did generoly impart to wiv and slav as far as his mand") was always the Merry Monarch, but Franz Hals' "Gay Cavalier" has been slighty promised.

101 GAY JOK THAT WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY AND HOOTS OF LGHTER

A, was that the origal sentence there's an unfortunate meetg of the somewhat arch-soundg thrilled and the somewhat girly-soundg trill, wh a gay squashed to the middle for good measure.

DEFINITIONS FOR GAYGEɪGAY

Herman's Herms had a h 1966 - No Milk today, which ntaed the le "the pany was gay, we turned night to day". Those old enough to remember the origal Fltston [1960-66] will rell that they offered "a gay old time".

The phrase "trill of gay lghter" sounds like some sort of lerary cliché. One of s first known was the 1930s, when kiki was gay slang for a gay male who was fortable beg eher passive or active durg sex. By the 1940–1950s, kiki was extend to a gay woman who “swched” between the genr inti of “butch” or “fem, ” or women who did not intify wh eher inty the lbian muny.

GAY HUMOR QUOT

For example, mothers uld have a “mom kiki, ” jt as a group of gay iends uld also have a kiki after dner.

Kiki is different om kaikai, which tradnally refers to two drag queens havg sex wh one another but n also mean terurse between any two gay men.

” However, kiki is often specifilly applied to a group of gay men who are lghg and jokg wh each other. Achy Obejas’s latt review, “Readg: Ltle Wimm” [November 6], allows Achy, and not Armistead Mp, to crease misunrstandgs between the gay male and lbian muny.

Achy ntu to drop her proverbial “gntlet” on the gay male muny whenever she has the chance. In this “review” of Signifint Others, we fd the same, old but nvcg rhetoric Achy is famo for: “If Mp had chosen a pair of black persons..., ” “For Mp (a male) to prent his wrgs as an thentic view of lbian culture, ” “Gay lerature....