Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

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• GAY
• GAY
• DEFN OF 'GAY'
• ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY
• QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• HOW TO PRONOUNCE GAY?
• HOW TO PRONOUNCE GAY ENGLISH (1 OUT OF 24574):
• GAY
• GAY (ADJ.)
• GAY

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DEFN OF 'GAY'

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See synonyms for gay on Ths. Adjective, gay·er, gay·, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of their own sex or genr: A gay uple strolled by on the, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted only to people of their own sex or genr: Gay and bisexual men are both discsed this, ditg, or supportg terts or issu pertag to gay people or the gay muny: He giv charable ntributns to a gay anizatn. Havg or showg a merry, lively mood: gay spirs; gay Use.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY

Bright or showy: gay lors; gay ornaments. (ed pecially of women and pecially poetry) betiful, lofty, noble, or excellent: The learned man hath got the lady gay. Excellent; topnotch: a gay and lofty md.

Given to or aboundg social or other pleasur: a gay social season; the Gay Use.

Sexually unrtraed; havg loose morals: In the 1930s movie, the baron is referred to as “a gay old rogue wh an eye for the ladi. Appropriately forward or bold; overly faiar; reckls: Gee got gay at the Christmas party and sudnly swept his boss's wife onto the dance floor. A person, pecially a man, who is sexually or romantilly attracted exclively to people of the same sex or of gay1First rerd 1275–1325; Middle English gai, om Old French “happy, cheerful, ” om Germanic; pare Old High German gāhi “fast, sudn”age alert For gayThe sexual orientatn meang of the word gay has bee so predomant that people hate to e the term s origal sens of “merry, lively” and “bright or showy.

QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT

The word gay has had var sens alg wh sexual nduct sce the 17th century. A gay woman was a prostute, a gay man a womanizer, a gay hoe a brothel.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

This sexual world clud gay men too, and gay as an adjective the sexual meang go back at least to the late 1930s. After World War II, as social attus toward sexualy began to change, gay was applied openly by gay men to themselv, first as an adjective and later as a noun. Today, the noun often signat only gay men and is ually ed as a llective plural: gays and lbians.

How do gays feel about this? It has been argued that gay the sense “awkward, stupid, or bad” is pennt of the sexual sense, and therefore not homophobic.

This argument is weakened by the fact that the sexual meang has long been the domant one, and th permeat all ag of gay. See also homosexual. Age note For gayWords like gay and lbian are often ed as umbrella terms scribg anyone who experienc same-genr attractn, and also as more specific labels.

HOW TO PRONOUNCE GAY?

Umbrella age, as gay marriage or lbian uple, typilly refers to any same-genr pairg, or to any person who is attracted to people of their own genr.

Gay self n also be ed as an even more general term scribg people of all genrs who are attracted to their own genr.

As more specific labels, gay and lbian often mean exclive attractn to the same genr, and may be ed ntrast wh terms like bisexual. And gay n also be ed to refer to only men who are attracted to men (exclively or not), ntrast to lbian, which only refers to women. Other words om gaygay·ns, nounnon·gay, adjectiveWords Nearby gaygawkgawkygawpGawragawsygayGayagayalGaya MaretangayatrigaydarOther fns for Gay (2 of 2)nounJohn, 1685–1732, English poet and dramatist.

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Brish Dictnary fns for gay (1 of 2)adjectivehomosexualof or for homosexuals: a gay clubreee and merry: a gay temperamentbrightly loured; brilliant: a gay hatgiven to pleasure, p social entertament: a gay lifeOrig of gay1C13: om Old French gai, om Old Provençal, of Germanic origage For gayGayns is the word ed to refer to homosexualy. The noun which refers to beg reee and merry is gaietyDerived forms of gaygayns, nounBrish Dictnary fns for Gay (2 of 2)nounJohn.

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Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Cultural fns for gayDcriptive term for New Dictnary of Cultural Leracy, Third Edn. Meang of gay English. gay adjective.

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GAY (ADJ.)

Note: Sometim gay refers only to men. Gay adjective. gay.

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(Defn of gay om the Cambridge Amic Content Dictnary © Cambridge Universy Prs). Translatns of gay. gay, homosexual, alegre….

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