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.
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GAY OLD TIME
Ah, what a gay old time we're havg. That was a gay old time!
THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
3) Hey, Osr Wil, I hear ya've been havg a gay old time down at the Gentleman's Wrer club. ’ This le, ed by Seth on his nephew, is probably the olst rerd chat-up, gay or straight, all of history.
As far as the rerd go, Nyankhkhnum and Khnumhotep are, I thk, the olst gays history. But they did not have a rigid nventn of sexualy as eher heterosexual or homosexual, and, at least at certa tim, and certa strata, may have tolerated and even celebrated same-sex love.
GAY OLD TIME
gay old time (untable and ununtable, plural gay old tim). 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.
THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
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. At that time the meang of gay as reee evolved to imply that a person was unrtraed by morals and prone to nce and promiscuy.
A prostute might have been scribed as a “gay woman” and a womanizer as a “gay man.