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• ADJECTIV FOR GAY
• WHAT IS THE NOUN FOR GAY?
• SGLE WORD REQUT FOR AN ADJECTIVE TO REPLACE MY E OF THE WORD "GAY" TO SCRIBE [CLOSED]
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• A BASIC CORP LGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE EVOLUTN OF ADJECTIVAL GAYA BASIC CORP LGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE EVOLUTN OF ADJECTIVAL GAYA BASIC CORP LGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE EVOLUTN OF ADJECTIVAL GAYA BASIC CORP LGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE EVOLUTN OF ADJECTIVAL GAYA BASIC CORP LGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE EVOLUTN OF ADJECTIVAL GAY

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AdjectiveNAmE//ɡeɪ//jump to other rults1(of people, pecially men) sexually attracted to people of the same sex synonym homosexual gay men I didn't know he was gay. (This is not a reference to the difference between a noun and an adjective, for we uld equally have chosen the adjectival form of “homosexualy.

Homosexualy refers to relatns between men or between women who experience an exclive or predomant sexual attractn toward persons of the same sex.

ADJECTIV FOR GAY

While beg somethg of an tellectual abstractn, the word “homosexualy” not one thg substantially, one phenomenon of human experience: same-genr eroticism. Th do we see the Church’s sense of “homosexualy” that this word pots to one thg (ad rem), even as this “one thg” n be distguished as actn at s end pot and as attractn at s source. In a word, the Church’s philosophil sense of homosexualy is that is “disorred”—no matter whether we are speakg of s source or of s endpot—disorred, bee is opposed to the orrg of the human beg the image of God.

WHAT IS THE NOUN FOR GAY?

Morally speakg, the Church ascrib uniformly negative value to homosexualy, which is wrongdog as regards activy, and temptatn as regards attractn. That is, the Church is always able to see the goodns of “the person” even as this person may be ught up homosexual thoughts, words, and actns.

Whenever the Church (the word) “digny” the ntext of homosexualy, she is posg somethg that her a person qua person, even as this person is unr the fluence of homosexualy. If what has been wrten about the Church’s sense of “homosexualy” here strik the rear as stiff or narrowly nceived, is perhaps bee of the fluence of the word “gay” on the rear.

That is, whereas “homosexualy” refers to somethg which do not belong to the re of the person, “gay” is ed to pos somethg that do implite re human inty.

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Given this unrstandg, Catholics—rightfully—reason that ‘gay’ is an objectnable word when, by s age, this word stat or impli that the God who has a hand fashng the re inty of every person has placed gay at this re. The (spoken) language that is lled for, the language regardg homosexualy that reflects realy, and rpects the Fah, is language that differentiat between who a person is at his re, and what a person has wh himself, albe not at his re. E., objectively, realistilly, tthfully) and rpectfully of the digny of a person unr the fluence of homosexualy will e the language “got gay.

At this pot, we are able to bridge the divi meang between what the profsnal word “homosexualy” nveys and what the lloquial word “gay” nveys. Here, is “gay” moro than “homosexualy” that n nfe, bee the ordary e of “gay” n nta multiple (unfound) referenc to matters that are relatnal, athetic, even ontic. Moreover, no matter the meang that someone wish to give to “gay, ” this (alleged) meang nnot be allowed to obscure the basic sense that the word holds, namely same-genr eroticism.

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In light of the nsiratns and distctns this wrg, might be time well spent criqug the psychologil profsn’s unrstandg of homosexualy, or sctizg Pope Francis’s gone-viral e of “gay” om the summer of 2013, or examg the phrase “same-sex attractn” (which some the Church e when engagg wh dividuals stgglg wh homosexualy), or criqug the (erroneo) claim that some the Church make of a posive signifince for a feature of gay experience. As a rult, the notn of g lbian as a noun when the later meang of "a woman who is a homosexual" (Merriam-Webster's current fn) arose, around 1890, would not have stck many hearers as beg a startlg novatn. [only before noun] nnected wh people who are gaya gay club/barthe lbian and gay munythe gay and lbian sectn the bookstoreOxford Collotns Dictnaryverbsbelooksound…adverbopenlyphrasgay and lbianSee full entry.

[not before noun] (slang, disapprovg, offensive) (ed pecially by young people) an offensive way to scribe somethg you fd borg, stupid or not attractive (parative gayer, superlative gayt) (old-fashned) happy and full of fungay lghterShe felt lighthearted and gay. See also gaiety, gailyWord OrigMiddle English ( sense (4)): om Old French gai, of unknown whout thkg about the rults or effects of a particular actn See gay the Oxford Advanced Amerin DictnarySee gay the Oxford Learner's Dictnary of Amic EnglishCheck pronunciatn:.

The Enomist specifilly ced a pair of 13th and 14th-century poets, Rumi and Hafiz, who lived morn-day Iran and often wrote about homosexual relatnships. Use of a slur that targets trans people creased 53%, while stanc of an offensive term for homosexual men went up 39% over the yearly average.

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Billy Eichner, noted homosexual, found himself the target of some odd gossip when a clickba article toutg his relatnship wh Noelle star Anna Kendrick went viral. Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his ath. To for the three meangs, I shall e 'P' to stand for posive ( relatn to the first meang); 'H' to stand for homosexual (the send meang); and 'N' to stand for negative (the third The rults show there has been a fe change the meang of the word gay om the first 'posive' meang, to the send meang (of a 'homosexual' sense) both BrE and AmE.

◊ When the noun gay is ed to refer to a specific person or specific people phras such as the thor is a gay or they are both gays, is often nsired offensive. Synonyms for gayalertforwardgladjollykeensparklgwildanimateanimatedblheblhomebouncybrashreeecheerfulcheerychipperchirpynfintnvivialvil-may-reftiveivoloolicsomefun-lovggamomegleefulhilarsouciantjocundjovialjoyfuljoyolightheartedlivelymerrymirthfulplayfulpleasure-seekgprumgphyrollickgself-assertivpiredsportivprightlysunnyvivaczippyOn this page you'll fd 165 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gay, such as: alert, forward, glad, jolly, keen, and sparklg.

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The group’s chapters other stat distributed rmatnal pamphlets about queer sex and famo queers throughout history; held a “kiss-” at the 1992 Amy Awards red rpet to prott queer excln Hollywood films; massively protted homophobic entertaers and cints of anti-queer vlence; arranged a “Pk Panther” street patrol to prevent queer-bashgs; and broadst vio of two k-vered men kissg on public accs televisn. For example, a gay, cisgenr, whe, Christian, Amerin man might not be nsired “queer” by some bee his mastream inti may grant him more social protectns than a Black, pansexual, transgenr, female immigrant livg Iraq. 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. 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.

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— […].