History of the Word “Gay” | WETA

Contents:

• GAY (ADJ.)
• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
• HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD "GAY" [CLOSED]
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• GAY
• WHEN DID "GAY" BEE ASSOCIATED WH HOMOSEXUALY? [DUPLITE]

GAY (ADJ.)

As a surname, Philipp Gay), om Old French gai "joyful, happy; pleasant, agreeably charmg; forward, pert; light-lored" (12c. The suggtn of immoraly the word n be traced back at least to the 1630s, if not to Chcer:But oure bed he was so sh and gay. ) begs to appear psychologil wrg the late 1940s, evintly picked up om gay slang and not always easily distguished om the olr sense:After discharge A.

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. 240]The associatn wh (male) homosexualy likely got a boost om the term gay t, ed as far back as 1893 Amerin English for "young hobo, " one who is new on the road, also one who sometim do jobs.

"A Gay Cat, " said he, "is a loafg laborer, who works maybe a week, gets his wag and vagabonds about huntg for another 'pick and shovel' job.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

Gay ts were severely and celly abed by "real" tramps and bums, who nsired them "an ferr orr of begs who begs of and otherwise preys upon the bum — as were a jackal followg up the kg of beasts" [Prof. McCook, "Tramps, " "The Public Treatment of Pperism, " 1893], but some acunts report certa olr tramps would domate a gay t and employ him as a sort of slave.

In "Soclogy and Social Rearch" (1932-33) a paragraph on the "gay t" phenomenon not, "Homosexual practic are more mon than rare this group, " and gey t "homosexual boy" is attted Noel Erske's 1933 dictnary of "Unrworld & Prison Slang" (gey is a Sttish variant of gay) "Dictnary of Amerin Slang" reports that gay (adj.

Rawson ["Wicked Words"] not a male prostute g gay reference to male homosexuals (but also to female prostut) London's notor Cleveland Street Sndal of 1889.

THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’

Ayto ["20th Century Words"] lls attentn to the ambiguo e of the word the 1868 song "The Gay Young Clerk the Dry Goods Store, " by U. "Gay" (or "gai") is now wily ed French, Dutch, Danish, Japane, Swedish, and Catalan wh the same sense as the English.

HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

[John Boswell, "Christiany, Social Tolerance, and Homosexualy, " 1980]As a teen slang word meang "bad, ferr, unsirable, " whout reference to sexualy, om (n. In Middle English meant "excellent person, noble lady, gallant knight, " also "somethg gay or bright; an ornament or badge" (c. 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.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD "GAY" [CLOSED]

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. “Gay hoe” was monly ed to refer to a brothel and, later, “gaiety” was ed as a mon name for certa plac of entertament. In the 1890s, the term “gey t” (a Sttish variant of gay) was ed to scribe a vagrant who offered sexual servic to women or a young traveler who was new to the road and the pany of an olr man.

This latter e suggts that the younger man was a sexually submissive role and may be among the first tim that gay was ed implyg a homosexual relatnship. In 1951, gay appeared the Oxford English Dictnary for the first time as slang for homosexual, but was most likely ed this way “unrground” at least 30 years earlier.

” This le (ad-libbed by Grant) n be terpreted to mean that he was behavg a happy-go-lucky or lighthearted way but is accepted by many as the first e of gay to mean homosexual a mastream movie. When gay is ed today to mean stupid or unsirable ( has only been ed this way sce the 1990s), rri wh a history of negative judgment and rigid ias about who or what is acceptable.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

As part of the curriculum, Unheard Voic featur a sectn on the word “gay, ” s history and how to e the word properly. The word “GAY” has a long history the English language, but why did “GAY” stop meang “happy” and start referrg “same sex relatnships? This has evolved om the term “gay, ” which, acrdg to PBS, beme a mon word the mid-20th century to scribe same-sex relatnships.

GAY

The outlet reports that the word “gay” actually dat back to the 13th century when was known to mean “happy” or “joyo.

By the 1960s, the word was embraced by the muny as a mark of pri and was at the foreont of the gay rights movement. Magaze, the term GLB surfaced around this time to also clu lbian and bisexual people, who felt that “gay” wasn’t clive of other THAYER - Getty ImagBy the end of the 1990s, activist anizatns started g LGBT or GLBT, cludg the “T” for transgenr folks.

WHEN DID "GAY" BEE ASSOCIATED WH HOMOSEXUALY? [DUPLITE]

” Newsweek reported 1991 that a gay activist group had repurposed the term as a posive self-scriptn, and proudly named themselv “Queer Natn. ” GLAAD pots out that, today, this term is more monly ed among younger people, for those who fd “gay, ” “lbian, ” or “bisexual” too rtrictive fg their sexual inty. Lbian: A woman who is attracted to other An acronym that stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr, wh the “Q” often meang eher “queer” or “qutng.

It’s Pri Month and one of the most lourful words the English language – wh more makeovers than Madonna and more dramatic life stori than Liza Mnelli – is the word ‘gay’!