The history of the word “gay” | The Gayly

Contents:

• GAY
• QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

GAY

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

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Havg or showg a merry, lively mood: gay spirs; gay Use. (ed pecially of women and pecially poetry) betiful, lofty, noble, or excellent: The learned man hath got the lady gay.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

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.

The word gay has had var sens alg wh sexual nduct sce the 17th century.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY

A gay woman was a prostute, a gay man a womanizer, a gay hoe a brothel. 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. 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.

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MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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.

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