Geoff Pullum (after droppg the bombshell that he's movg to Edburgh) recently wrote about the mayor of Wt Sacramento's announcement that he "want[s] to start thkg of gay as a verb and not jt a noun". Pullum, himself no slouch...
Contents:
- GAY
- MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
- THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
- MALE VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?MALE | GAY |AS ADJECTIV THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALE AND GAYIS THAT MALE IS BELONGG TO THE SEX WHICH TYPILLY HAS TT, WHICH HUMANS AND MOST OTHER MAMMALS IS TYPILLY THE ONE WHICH HAS XY CHROMOSOM WHILE GAY IS (DATED).AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALE AND GAYIS THAT MALE IS ONE OF THE MALE (MASCULE) SEX OR GENR WHILE GAY IS (CHIEFLY| PLURAL OR ATTRIBUTIVE) A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY'' A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; ''SEE ALSO LBIAN OR GAY N BE THE NAME OF THE LETTER ⟨— ⟩, WHICH STANDS FOR THE SOUND , PMAN SHORTHAND.AS A VERB GAY IS.OTHER COMPARISONS: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?FEMALE VS GAYMALE
- AM I GAY?
- WHAT IS THE ADVERB FOR GAY?
GAY
The meang of GAY is of, relatg to, or characterized by sexual or romantic attractn to people of one's same sex —often ed to refer to men only. How to e gay a sentence. Usage of Gay: Usage Gui Synonym Discsn of Gay. * gay as verb *
The dce remend 2019 that Catholic schools not enroll transgenr stunts and suggted that gay parents be treated differently than straight parents. The duo also reced several members of the former AAGPBL to serve as advisers — cludg the legendary Maybelle Blair, who at age 95 me out as gay durg the prs tour for the show.
MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
gay fn: 1. sexually or romantilly attracted to people of the same genr and not to people of a different…. Learn more. * gay as verb *
The Stonewall Natnal Monument, where the vandalism took place, is across the street om the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar that was the se of a June 1969 uprisg that’s wily nsired to be a turng pot the morn gay rights movement.
THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
* gay as verb *
Those stori and documentari, shown on three screens the exhib, clu remembranc of late LGBTQ pneers such as Bonny Benjam, a gay woman who ptaed a fishg vsel the 1970s and employed gay women for much of her crew.
MALE VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?MALE | GAY |AS ADJECTIV THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALE AND GAYIS THAT MALE IS BELONGG TO THE SEX WHICH TYPILLY HAS TT, WHICH HUMANS AND MOST OTHER MAMMALS IS TYPILLY THE ONE WHICH HAS XY CHROMOSOM WHILE GAY IS (DATED).AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALE AND GAYIS THAT MALE IS ONE OF THE MALE (MASCULE) SEX OR GENR WHILE GAY IS (CHIEFLY| PLURAL OR ATTRIBUTIVE) A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY'' A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; ''SEE ALSO LBIAN OR GAY N BE THE NAME OF THE LETTER ⟨— ⟩, WHICH STANDS FOR THE SOUND , PMAN SHORTHAND.AS A VERB GAY IS.OTHER COMPARISONS: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?FEMALE VS GAYMALE
Do we need laws forbiddg the "gay" sult? * gay as verb *
From Middle English gay, om Old French gai (“joyful, lghg, merry”), ually thought to be a borrowg of Old Occan gai (“impetuo, lively”), om Gothic *?????? (*gaheis, “impetuo”), mergg wh earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), om Frankish *gāhi;[1] both om Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudn”).
The sense of homosexual (first rerd no later than 1937 by Cary Grant the film Brgg Up Baby, and possibly earlier 1922 the poem "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gert Ste[6][7]) was shortened om earlier gay t ("homosexual boy") unrworld and prison slang, self first attted about 1935, but ed earlier for a young tramp or hobo attached to an olr one. He was not happy at the farm and went to a Wtern cy where he associated wh a homosexual crowd, beg "gay, " and wearg female cloth and makp.
2003, Michael McAvennie, The World Wrtlg Entertament Yearbook:She uldn't even ga accs om a fay iend whose name was on the list, nor uld she e her feme charms to turn on the staff member, who revealed he was gay and was more imprsed seeg Billy and Chuck enter the buildg.
AM I GAY?
As adjectiv the difference between male and gay is that male is belongg to the sex which typilly has tt, which humans and most other mammals is typilly the one which has xy chromosom while gay is... * gay as verb *
2005, Mark Caldwell, New York Night, page 133:Of the dozen or so survivg articl, squibs, and letters to the edor, the most remarkable appeared the Whip and Satirist’s Febary 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a bal of gay men New York's otherwise wholome nightspe of brothels and rts. Among the syndite of perverts, the wrer announced, "we fd no Amerins as yet—they are all Englishmen or French" (the English lled homosexualy the French vice and the French the English vice; for the Whip was the French and English vice). The two failed attempts to receive the necsary accs to medilized transn procr by the renowned FTM activist Lou Sullivan—a gay man who refed to ply wh the imperative that transsexual men mt sire women— […].
WHAT IS THE ADVERB FOR GAY?
Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you. * gay as verb *
2009, Betty Jean Lifton, Lost & Found: the Adoptn Experience, page 67:Her adoptive mother fated when Gail told her she was gay.