Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• GAY
• HOW TO SAY GAY SPANISH
• GAY DICTNARY SPANISH
• 12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• GAY DICTNARY
• WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAY?

GAY

Gay [ɡeɪ] adjective1 (homosexual) [+man, muny, movement] gay adjective:variable; (a) homosexual; [+woman] homosexual; lbiano; [+bar] gay adjective:variable; (a) gays a centre for lbians and gay men un centro para lbianas y gays; gay men and women hombr y mujer homosexual; gays y lbianas; gay sex relacn (f) homosexual; the gay scene el ambiente gay or homosexual2 gayer (parative)gayt (superlative) (cheerful) [+person, lour, stume] alegre; [+atmosphere, mic, lghter] alegre; ftivo Nancy liked their gay stum she was feelg wty and gay3 (reee) wh gay abandon spreocupadamente; alegremente He has splashed dollars around wh gay abandon she's livg the gay life Paris se da la gran vida en París; se pega la vida padre en París (rmal) I don't have the money to live the gay life gay [Paree] [Paris]noun (man) gay (m); homosexual (m); (woman) lbiana (f); homosexual (f);modifierthe gay liberatn movement gay lib (n) el movimiento liberación homosexualgay rights (n) rechos (m) los homosexual.

Although most s appears as the idm “ la acera enente” (is om the oppose siwalk), several dictnari as the Mart and Leon, appears as a term to pot to homosexual or effemate man.

HOW TO SAY GAY SPANISH

The effemacy men do not necsarily imply homosexualy, however the exprsn has been ed as a phemism for homosexual man, as an sult agast homosexual men or who uld be homosexual, and to cricize the lack of manhood. Although is not a well-known word and prciple seemed a lolism (sce seems to be ed by the heterosexual men Andalia to refer to a homosexual the closet), the first reference was found the 50s Mexi, the 70s Colombia and Spa the e of flower nam as a phemism or as an sult is also found other languag such as English, wh terms like Daisy, Pansy and Buttercup, whereas Spa the e of generic word “flor” (flower) and s variatns is more equent to pot homosexuals. Keep md that the Roman Empire the Greek homosexual nstctn system, teacher-pupil, beme the master-slave system, which socially allows men sodomize his slav, and generally, homosexual behavr whenever was active (top anal terurse).

There are two possible explanatns for the orig of the slang, on the one hand there are those who say that om the u bris peach or aprit, which is very easy to open, related to the alleged ease wh which gay men put their butts to be fucked. Although generally appli to the ic, grotque, absurd, funny, etc., relat to homosexualy by the issue we discsed the term Maricón, about the stereotype of sissy, an effemate man, harmls and wh which make fun at his expense. recent term ed Pe belongg to the LGBT slang, to refer to a kd of gay that a certa sector nsirs “more morn”, discreet, mascule, who n be active (top) anal terurse, as opposed to the feme homosexual, transvte, borrg transsexualy, always passive (bottom) sex, crazy, and probably lookg for mostaceros.

It was not known more of that guy, but over time began to e the term “B chola” by alertg each other that some homophobic people was g closer and that, therefore, they should act wh discretn to avoid problems. Another orig may be the meang has Mexi, where is ed as synonym for idt, silly, etc., negative characteristics of men, attributed to homosexuals by the mere fact of been homosexuals. the word Can appears the poem by Feri García Lor “Oda a Walt Whman” endg wh a seri of words, or rather sults, we supposed ed to pot gay men of the time: “Faeri Norteaméri, pájaros la Habana, jotos Méji, sarasas Cádiz, aps Sevilla, ns Madrid, floras Alinte, alaidas Portugal”.

GAY DICTNARY SPANISH

So, the term Can would be another se which there has been a semantic leap of the negative characteristics of some men to gay men, by the mere fact of beg, as has happened wh other words such as Palomo and Pato. term for gay men ed Bolivia, probably related to karaoke bars, but we do not know if is related wh homosexualy for beg a ls mascule activy for a particular sector of the untry, or for the karaoke bars type of dience Bolivia, full of gay people.

12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!

It seems the term is associated wh another gay slang term, well known, which is Chapero, rived om Chapista, wh slang meang of htler, and wh the lerally meang of person who works wh metal sheets, a panel beater.

Beg Cásra amarga, is a rogatory idm ed to pot homosexual or effemate man, probably bee is generally applied, faiar form, to people of very advanced ias or nghty and brave, makg a semantic leap to homosexual man pecially if he is an activist. By the time there was a semantic leap and the word Chongo acquired the meang of lover Paraguay, brothel Pe and Ecuador, where also has the meang of meetg or funny and sndalo act (as an y), as well as the top/active man homosexual relatnship, as we have already said, Argenta. In addn, the two untri and nowadays, Cola is slang for the ass, however, another explanatn, such as the relatnship of the tail wh the penis, should not be disrd sce other languag such as the Danish, the word Svan means tail and is a slang for the penis and is also slang for homosexual man.

Word of Mapuche orig, giv s name to a type of th reed and which is also ed wh the sense of agile, skny, wimpy, weak, etc., so is possible that there has been the ual semantic leap om negative characteristics of some men to all gay people, by the mere fact of beg.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

But whout neglectg the tradnal relatnship of flowers wh the feme and the e of flower nam as slang for homosexual men, such as “Amapolo” Spanish or “Pansy” the English language, is possible that this slang had s orig meangs and of the word flora that go back, at least, to the prev century.

Flora, bis referrg to the plant world and the poetic work of a wrer, has also been synonymo wh tenr, soft, etc., and so we fd a publitn of 1868-1869 entled “Los Borbon en Pelota” (Naked Bourbons) a satiril and pornographic work signed by the psdonym SEM and attributed, not whout discsn, to the Bécquer brothers, which was clud a popular song that suated the homosexualy of the Kg nsort Francis Asís Borbón that said th:.

Tenrns, softns, smoothns, general, are characteristics socially attributed to women sce ancient tim and that turn to sults directed agast the men we would today ll homosexuals, agast those who uld be for their effemacy or agast any man you want to sult highlightg his ltle manhood.

GAY DICTNARY

The term appears, at the same time than heterosexual term, the late 19th century om the pen of a Hungarian poet and wrer named Karl-Maria Kertbeny a public letter urgg the thori to crimalize homosexual behavr. Although the term was created wh good tentns, the end was very succsful the world of medice and psychiatry and th began the stage of pathologizg, where homosexualy ceased to be a crime, to bee a mental illns.

WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAY?

Paradigmatic term of pathologizg era which, om a biased and heteronormative view, was tryg to expla homosexualy as abnormal and diverted behavr rpect to heterosexualy, rrect, natural and majory.

· The most mon theory is that which refers to the Mexin prison the cy of Lecumberry, acrdg to which homosexuals were locked the “J” sectn, although there are also those who say that was bee that sectn were locked the imprisoned by the famo “Dance of the 41”. As on other ocsns, to homosexual man is supposed all sorts of fects so is possible that there has been a semantic leap and has end up beg ed as rogative slang for gay people, as happens for example wh the word Duck.

K’ewsa is a term of Quechua / Aymara orig ed Bolivia today wh the pejorative meang of homosexual or effemate man, although we have found translated as a ward, ward who beats women, chue (twisted) and other ems that dite appropriate behavr. It is a term that has bee the center of the bate on homosexual behavr pre-Columbian societi, between those who argue that homosexualy is imported and therefore ny that the word meant somethg like “homosexual” orig, and those who see the existence of this term, a clear evince to the ntrary. In this exprsn, we fd the phenomenon that we have talked about on many ocsns: that of transferrg to mascule homosexualy, a slang ed prevly for female prostutn, as is the se wh the word gay.

So Macha is an exprsn of 70’s, belongg to the gay slang, to ironilly refer to homosexual man who boasts of excsively virile attus, or durg sex, tak a role of straight man (“suck my ck, give me your ass, nothg more”).

The relatnship tablished between male homosexualy and prostutn also occurs other languag, such as English, which many terms like “gay” or “faggot” before ed to sult gay men were ed to sult women or refer prostut. It is an exprsn that appeared the 16th century, and seems to refer more to the homosexual man wh an attu and mascule appearance, although throughout the centuri, s applitn has been changg.

Sce the Spanish dictatorship Maricón also was ed, to a greater extent, to refer to homosexual men wh mascule attu, and this greater visibily was precisely that mak the Maricón had ls social acceptance that the Mariqua, more feme, wh whom make fun (cludg sex) and therefore ls dangero. Today, the term Maricón no longer has the hue of masculy and, s e is general for any gay, to sult any heterosexual man and, even to name amibly between iends, eher gay or straight. This term highlights stereotypil characteristics of gay men, such as exhibnism, mannered, the lor of clothg, as well as promiscuy or ltle nstancy love bee they fl om flower to flower.

Curly, the first wrten reference of butterfly related to male homosexualy is the 16th century, done by Pedro León, Ju nfsor to the prison of Seville, the book “El apéndice los ajticiados” (Appendix of executed). Although currently the DRAE retas the meang of effemate man and do not clu the meang of sult to homosexual men, is a fairly mon sult ed agast any man, gay or not, effemate or not, and even as an affectnate joke between macho-man iends. There are those who affirm that the relatnship wh the beetle is that mak perforatns (peratns) the rnfields, even that has to do wh the bright lors of the sect relatn to the bright and strint lors of homosexual men, a relatnship that we disrd sce this slang is clearly ed to refer to mascule men.

The first wrten reference we have found of the word mayate related to homosexualy is found 1904 a text by Carlos Roumagnac “Crimals Mexi: say of crimal psychology” which talks about mayat and hors as slang exprsns of the prison environment, beg Mayate the men who perform the top role and the hors the men who played the bottom role. Although the term is bt known for the idm “más maricón que un palomo jo”, this exprsn is slang for a homosexual or effemate man, and Palomar (dovete) was the name given to the place of prisons sted to homosexuals.