Gay Defn & Meang | Branni Dictnary

Contents:

• GAY
• WHAT IS THE PLURAL OF GAY?
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• WHAT IS THE NOUN FOR GAY?
• AS MAJOR BRANDS WAVER, GAY WATER AIMS FOR AUTHENTICY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

GAY

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WHAT IS THE PLURAL OF GAY?

They do not see most gays as havg an enomic life at all, much ls an enomic life that is differentiable om that of most heterosexuals. 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.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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 NOUN FOR GAY?

2010, Noėl Sturgeon, Environmentalism Popular Culture: Genr, Race, Sexualy, and the Polics of the Natural, page 128:In fact, as several letter wrers to the New York Tim poted out their rponse to the article, the disjuncture between the two popularized pengus shows how radilly separated om each other are muni of gay people and muni of right-wg relig nservativ: if the Christian fundamentalists had looked up "gay pengus" or even "pengus" on the Inter, they would have enuntered several gay pengu s, cludg the story of Roy and Silo, the Central Park Zoo gay pengu uple about whom a children's book was wrten; the saga of the gay pengu muny at a German zoo; and the mpaign of Gay Pengu for Print (whose slogan was "Gee W. Although the number of gay weddgs has creased signifintly, many gay and lbian upl — like many straight upl — are not terted gettg married.

1977, Charl Silverste; Edmund Whe, The Joy of Gay Sex, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:Gays meet each other special-tert social groups—gay softball leagu, gay bike clubs, gay gymnasia, gay activist polil anizatns, the Gay Amic Unn (an anizatn for gay teachers, scholars and stunts), gay universy stunt clubs and so on.

AS MAJOR BRANDS WAVER, GAY WATER AIMS FOR AUTHENTICY

2003, Lawrence Block, Small Town, page 269:He might well have spected Cheek was a gay bar whout seeg any of s patrons, simply bee was a neighborhood where most of the bars were gay, and bee you uldn't see the wdows.

2004, Mart Hugh; Sarah Johnstone; Tom Masters, London, page 208:Turn left to chilled-out Old Compton St and try to gus which bars are gay.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

2010, Jay Mohr, No Wonr My Parents Drank: Tal om a Stand-Up Dad, page 252:Aga I was to masturbate to a cup and aga the majory of the porn was gay. 2014, Christopher Schaberg; Robert Bent, Denstctg Brad Pt, Bloomsbury Publishg USA, →ISBN, page 211:Beg gay for Brad, even a teensy b, is at the very least beg able to image the potential for queerns. In a sense, like the recent popular and cril furor over men who are gay-for-pay, beg gay for Brad is what Jefey Esffier f as "suatnal homosexualy, " or other forms of man-on-man behavr […] In other words, rather than worry over whether or not men who are queer for Brad n easily be labeled as straight or gay, […].

This cint has bee a source of much discsn, and the jury is still out on who is more gay: the guy who touched a dick or the guy who let a guy touch his dick. 1905, Barons Emmka Orczy, chapter 2, The Affair at the Novelty Theatre‎[7]:Miss Phyllis Man, as the hapls heroe drsed the shabbit of cloth, appears the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophis all and sundry there, cludg the villa, and has a magnificent scene which always brgs down the hoe, and nightly adds to her histrnic lrels.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsir, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 252:The excement engenred by the cisn to die perked him right up; he had not felt so gay for ag. 1918, Hunter-trar-trapper, page 36:We lnched our noe and were off at a gay clip for Hackettstown, where Mart had a married sister, and we were figurg on big eats.

2016, Lra Jean Libbey, Mischievo Maid Faynie, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:" […] there is no one more petent to make fly at a gay pace than myself. 2019, Lawrence Lariar, He Died Lghg, Open Road Media, →ISBN:We shot along Sunset Boulevard at a gay pace, and squealed a turn down Ve Street wh never a jterbug pestrian to make the drivg tertg. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickerg […], 1873, →OCLC:A Beavie of fair women, richly gay / In gems and wanton drs.

1946 May and June, “Not and News: Special Servic for the Welsh Natnal Eisteddfod”, Railway Magaze, page 188:Rhos statn had been cleaned up for the ocsn, and s sgle platform was gay wh flags. John, The Subalpe kgdom: or, Experienc and studi Savoy, Piedmont, and Genoa, volume 2, page 158:Prce Bhe was what is lled a "gay, dissipated man"—that is to say, a powerful person leadg a bched and famo life. 1879, Great Bra, Reports om mte, Hoe of Commons, page 61:[…] is possible for people to be diseased whout beg prostut or gay women; is possible for people years ago to have spent a gay life and to have not got rid of their disease, or they may have bee diseased by their hbands or lovers.

1889, Albert Barrère; Charl Godey Leland, A Dictnary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracg English, Amerin, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidg English, Tker's Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology‎[8], volume 1, page 399:Gay (mon), loose, dissipated; a "gay woman" or "gay girl, " a prostute.

Aston Sger, “The Social Evil Problem”, The Universy magaze and ee review: a monthly magaze, volume 9, page 308:She impntly forms the acquatance of a "gay girl" livg the same street.

1899, Henry Fieldg, Edmund Gosse, edor, The works of Henry Fieldg wh an troductn, volume 11, page 290:"As nothg uld be more gay, i. E., bched, than Zeno's urt, so the ladi of gay disposn had great sway ; particularly one, whose name was Fsta, who, though not extremely handsome, was by her w and sprightls very agreeable to the emperor.

Sayers, Bman's Honeymoon, page 357:"It's an odd thg, " he observed, "that men like Ctchley, wh quanti of large whe teeth, are practilly always gay Lothars. 1946, Gee Johnston, Skyscrapers the Mist, page 88:Most of them liked the work bee was gay and bee they were able to earn more than other girls who worked offic or cy stor. 1832, Gee Pearson, Evengs by En-si: Or, Essays and Poems, page 67:As his reply was rather characteristic, I will give : Many of them e a gay b off.

Some claim that homosexual is dated and evok a time when homosexualy was nsired a mental illns by the mental health muny, while others feel that the word homosexual(y) do not exprs the emotnal aspects of sexual orientatn. In the broad polil sense, gay ually refers to anythg pertag to same-sex relatnships, whether male or female: gay rights and gay marriage. When ed ordatn wh other terms for sexual orientatns, ually specifilly refers to men who are attracted only to men, and exclus lbians, bisexuals and other orientatns, as phras like lbian, gay and bisexual (LGB).

Sce at least the 1950s, gay has sometim been ed as a broad umbrella term for all queer and genr-nonnformg (transgenr and genrqueer/non-bary) people, siar to LGBTQ.

anti-gaydon't say gayex-gaygay-assgay bargay-bashgay bashgay bashergay bobgay bombgayborhoodgay boyGaybrahamgay ncergay chickengay curgay-dargaydargay athgaydomgay for paygay for the staygay-iendlsgay-iendlygay iendlygay-hategay ingay liberatngay mangay marriagegay-marrygay marrygaynsgay panic fensegay plaguegay prigay-related immune ficiencygay-related immunoficiencygay rightsgay-shamegay-shamggaysomegay-straight alliancegay tyke boygay upgunclehomogayI'm gayland rights for gay whalnosegaypray away the gaypray the gay awayprison gaypro-gay. 1974, Earl Wilson, Show Bs Laid Bare‎[10]:"Same-sex dancg, as we ll , is que legal, " a gay named Lew Todd, who was one of the spokmen, spoke up. Fieln, Individual Diversy and Psychology Organizatns, page 73:Yet that do not mean that the issu, ncerns and attus of gays and lbians the workplace are not important.

2004, Betty Berzon, Permanent Partners: Buildg Gay & Lbian Relatnships That Last, page 20:Olr gays and lbians often relegate themselv to separate and unequal meetg plac. Ormsbee, The Meang of Gay, page 313:On June 28, 1970, young gays the cy held a “Gay-” Goln Gate Park, and Gay Sunshe ran a photo of some of the participants their gural issue […]. If however the stranger be spected of “sailg unr false lours, " when they are all faiar chat about nothg particular, “Co Jacky” will take ocsn to say to the new chum, “My ar; d 'e ever see a duck clunk a gay?

Gay is sometim ed broadly to refer to any man who is attracted to and/or sexually active wh other men, or any woman attracted to or active wh other women, even if not exclively, e.

Ancient: κίναιδος m (kínaidos), λάσταυρος m (lástros), βάταλος m (bátalos), (male homosexual) ἀρσενοκοίτης (arsenokoítēs), (female homosexual) τριβάς f (tribás). 1833, John Sim Sands, Poems on Var Subjects, page 115:And, tho' his guts ware lank and toom, / They're twice as big's this gay big room.

1869, Joseph Carr, Sketch of village life, by “Eavdropper”, page 60:Now, to end my story, if o' t' village beti wad g t' relign that good ld parson Jenks remends, wad gay sharply mak' t' dirty women clean, […]. 1875, Dickson, Cumbriana; Or, Fragments of Cumbrian Life, page 8:[…] an' be t' Silver Cwove, an' than throo t' Pillar, an' a gay rough b o' gnd is!

Eric Partridge (2005), “gay”, Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, edors, The New Partridge Dictnary of Slang and Unnventnal English, volume 1 (A–I), London; New York, N. Joseph Wright, edor (1900), “GAY”, The English Dialect Dictnary: […], volume II (D–G), London: Henry Frow, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N. ^ Gert Ste (1922), “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene”, Geography and Plays:They stayed there and were gay there, not very gay there, jt gay there.

Gee Skeene was gay there and she was regular, regular beg gay, regular not beg gay, regular beg a gay one who was one not beg gay longer than was need to be one beg que a gay one. ^ Stephan Cohen, The Gay Liberatn Youth Movement New York: ‘An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail’ (2007, →ISBN), quotg Sylvia Rivera: "'If you want Gay Power, then you're gog to have to fight for .