Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• GAY
• WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAY?
• WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAYS?
• SYNONYMS OF 'GAY' BRISH ENGLISH
• SLANG FOR GAY
• SYNONYMS FOR GAY MARRIAGEGAY MAR·RIAGE
• SYNONYMS FOR GAY MAN
• ANTONYMS FOR GAYGEɪGAY
• SYNONYMS FOR ANTI-GAYAN·TI-GAY

SYNONYMS OF GAY

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Some mon synonyms of gay are animated, lively, sprightly, and vivac. While all the words mean "keenly alive and spired, " gay strs plete eedom om re and overflowg spirs.

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The words animated and gay n be ed siar ntexts, but animated appli to what is spired and active. In some suatns, the words lively and gay are roughly equivalent.

While the synonyms sprightly and gay are close meang, sprightly suggts lightns and spired vigor of manner or w.

WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAY?

The synonyms vivac and gay are sometim terchangeable, but vivac suggts an activens of gture and w, often playful or allurg.

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WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAYS?

“I was walkg wh him one night, alongsi the Tham, feelg happy and gay.

SYNONYMS OF 'GAY' BRISH ENGLISH

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“I hear the fat murmur of mic and girls' voic, gay and upliftg. “I was enthralled by their fac, glisteng om the heat and settg off to great advantage the brilliantly gay lors of the trite signs their native drs.

SLANG FOR GAY

“Carver explaed that he me out as a gay to his fay when he was 17.

“Back the late 1990s, she publicly announced to the world that she was a proud gay. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny.

SYNONYMS FOR GAY MARRIAGEGAY MAR·RIAGE

While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym. As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns.

People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn. And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”. For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive.

SYNONYMS FOR GAY MAN

Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.

ANTONYMS FOR GAYGEɪGAY

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer. Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.”.

The term queer, like the term homosexual, has a b of a troubled history. However, unlike homosexual, has been wily reappropriated by the LGBTQ muny as a label.

Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man. In 1990, this effort foced on queer as a llective term for gay and lbian people.

SYNONYMS FOR ANTI-GAYAN·TI-GAY

Queer was seen as a way to refer to gays and lbians whout beg genr-sentialist or g divisns wh the muny.

homoromantic: a person who is romantilly attracted to people of the same sex or genr.

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See exampl for synonyms Usage noteBy far the most mon and up-to-date e of the word gay is reference to beg homosexual. Synonymssparky, gay (old-fashned), alive and kickg, full of beans (rmal), ztfulDefnvery happy or cheerfulHis spir was anythg but blhe below the surface.

An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak. But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post. Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light.Spencer Hodson/Instagram.

The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.1-ch height. “Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle,” Hodson told The Post.

“When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent,” he add. Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.”Spencer Hodson/Instagram.

“Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month,” he said. AlladjnounSynonyms for homosexualgaygayColls Ths of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edn. 2002 © HarperColls Publishers 1995, 2002Synonyms for homosexualof, relatg to, or havg a sexual orientatn to members of one's own sexThe Amerin Herage® Roget's Ths.