The history of the word “gay” | The Gayly

Contents:

• HOW TO SAY GAY GERMAN
• GERMAN TRANSLATN OF 'GAY'
• GAY DICTNARY GERMAN
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY (ADJ.)
• WHAT THE GERMAN WORD FOR GAY?
• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
• "GAY" IM DTSCHEN
• GAY
• GAY DICTNARY
• THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

HOW TO SAY GAY GERMAN

(f); rights für Schwule gay men and women Schwule und Lben pl (f) gay movement Schwulenbewegung f gay bar Schwulenkneipe f gay marriage gleichgchlechtliche Ehe, Homoehe f (f) gay group Schwulengppe f the gay muny die Schwulen pl 2. Jody Skner’s work “Bezeichnungen für das Homosexuelle im Dtschen”, Die Bl Eule (1999) (Denomatns for Homosexual German), and wh the help of Rocío Laguía, Mos of the translatns Germany, Jody was so kd to give the two volum of his work that is our ma source for the realizatn of this dictnary. Rocío and María Cano helped wh the first translatns and terpretatns and th we found a lot of rogative words and exprsns, but also some that ed up a great sense of humor, even bety, bee they arose the LGBT muny self, who survived the slums and margal environments and who had the need to speak of the most outstandg topics this German Gay Dictnary is that of warmth wh the word warm, and do so for two reasons, the first, for a large number of words and exprsns has generated, and the send, bee s relatnship wh effemate men and wh those who fucked wh other men, go back to the Middle Ag or perhaps much further back time.

Wh this pejorative and antiquated idm was wanted to emphasize the femy of the gay people relatg them wh the first woman, acrdg to the Bible Eve, the same way that wh Adamstochter the masculy of lbians was remarked relatg them wh the first man, Adam, a time which the only referent was the mp people, people wh a genr exprsn that did not rrpond to their sex and that worked, not whout error, as a predictor of sexual orientatn. +HomosexuelleThe translatn to the English language of the word Homosexuelle is homosexual, a term ed by Karl Maria Benkert, the precursor of the fight for gay rights, which was then ed medice to name a false What is homosexual?

Essentially those who were not Christians were heretics, and the, as animist trib that existed the current terrory of Bulgaria, they attributed all sorts of vic and ss, hence this is the orig of the word bugger and the relatn between hery and homosexual behavr. +LeckermlThe first meang of Leckerml is a greedy person, however, the first part of the word Leck- is related to the cunnilg or anilg (rim job), so this exprsn n be ed as a slang for a homosexual person, both for gays and lbians. +RosettenkrlerThe words Rose and Rosetten are slang words for the an, so Rosettenkrler has the meang of the one that als wh his partner’s an sex, for this reason, is ed as slang for the homosexual man that we uld translate to the English language as eyelets scratcher.

GERMAN TRANSLATN OF 'GAY'

+SpatstecherIn the German language, when are ed exprsns whose first element is Spat- the ntext of homosexual men and male homosexualy, is metaphorilly speakg of the fec, sce Spat translated to the English language is spach, the vegetable, and all the exprsns are referrg to anal sexual activy. The leral translatn of Spatstecher would be a skewer or spach knife, and we uld translate to English as is said that the term Spatstecher origat the Rotwelsch jargon at the begng of the 19th century and refers to the top homosexual man anal terurse.

The Spatstecher is also documented several dialects, such as the one talked Frankfurt, which Spatstecher addn to homosexual man is also ed to refer to the own penis. Free-e photograph snned by Jdsteakley, download om wikipedia, rized, and is a German term rarely ed today, but is the precsor of the term homosexual, this se referrg to men.

GAY DICTNARY GERMAN

Ulrichs’ ia was so succsful that we fd many other relatnship between beg, e om or livg on the pla Uran, and homosexualy, aris Plato’s work, Symposium, which he relat to men’s homosexual behavr; a story of gods…Variatns: Uranier, Uranist, Uri, Urnist, Urnisch (adjetiv). Another explanatn found is the fact that homosexual men get horny wh those of their same sex, and fally, the one that relat the heat wh the dangerons that has always been attributed to our opn there are two possible origs that are related. The other explanatn, related to the prev one, has to do wh the patriarchal intifitn, wh the attributn of supposedly feme characteristics to homosexual men, such as the warmth the voice, the softns of the gtur and the weakns general.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

This explanatn is rerced by two rogatory exprsns of classil Greece and Rome ed agast men who behaved as women wh other men, the Greek word “malakós” and the Roman exprsn “homo mollis” lerally meant d man.

This simple ia of man as a woman and a ncept as basic as warmth n place the orig of the word warm as slang for homosexualy far back also have to ment on the possible relatnship between the slang words warm and schwul. There are those who place warm the orig of the slang Schwul (whout umlts), a rogatory exprsn at the begng but which is currently a ntral term wily ed as a synonym for gay. Fally should be noted that warm is also ed as a ntral term si and outsi the LGBT scene as synonymo wh gay, so Warme Meile (the warm e) was the name given to the gay neighborhood of Cologne cy the 1950s, the rad statn Dtsche Welle was known as the Warme Welle (the warm wave) for s high percentage of LGBT workers, and the exprsn Warmherzig (warm heart) is ed as a synonym for gay and lbian.

GAY (ADJ.)

Related: warme Frndschaft (warm iendship = homosexualy), Auf die warme Fahrt gehen (go out for a warm walk = look for a homosexual uple who pays), warme Arbeist (warm work = homosexual activy); warmer Akt (warm act), warme Arie (warm aria), warme Küche (warm okg), Wärmebehandlung (heat treatment), Wärmelehre (thermodynamics) and Wärmetechnik (thermal engeerg) mean homosexual sex; jemann die warme Schulter zeigen (show warm shoulr to somenone = want homosexual relatnships wh someone); warm angehcht (warm trend), wärmehaltig (that keeps the heat) and warm angelegt se (beg horny) mean homosexual (adjective).

2Warmer BrWarmer Br is part of a large group of German exprsns relatg temperature to homosexualy, pecially male, and serv special attentn, not only bee of the anachronistic exprsns is the bt known, but bee brgs wh part of the history of what we now ll homosexualy, om the Middle Ag to our first part, warmer, that you n fd veloped s own entry this dictnary, n be translated var ways and always related as warm, affectnate, heated, iendly, etc.

Th, the exprsn warmer Br n be lerally translated as warm brother, affectnate brother or heated brother, and would be a rogatory exprsn to refer to homosexual first referenc found of this slang date om the 18th century and would be related to different manvers of persecutn and executn, as well as judicial proceedgs, agast male relig ngregatns, to which on a well-found basis or not, were acced of homosexual behavr and pedophilia. The slang warmer Br, therefore, uld have s orig sexualy on the part of male members of the Catholic Church that was extend to all homosexual men by the mere fact of beg so. I was speakg to someone I’m iends wh onle and both of grew up wh a fair amount of German our liv; both of are cur (and me as a gay man) if there is any mon lgbt slang the German language like there is English?

WHAT THE GERMAN WORD FOR GAY?

It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power. In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach.

Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works. Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung). Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

For the first time, gay men who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis beme eligible for moary pensatn om the German ernment for jtic perpetrated agast them. A few years later, May 2008, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Nazism (Denkmal für die im Natnalsozialism verfolgten Homosexuellen) was unveiled nearby Tiergarten park central Berl.

It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch.

THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’

240]The associatn wh (male) homosexualy likely got a boost om the term gay t, ed as far back as 1893 Amerin English for "young hobo, " one who is new on the road, also one who sometim do jobs. Gay ts were severely and celly abed by "real" tramps and bums, who nsired them "an ferr orr of begs who begs of and otherwise preys upon the bum — as were a jackal followg up the kg of beasts" [Prof. McCook, "Tramps, " "The Public Treatment of Pperism, " 1893], but some acunts report certa olr tramps would domate a gay t and employ him as a sort of slave.

"GAY" IM DTSCHEN

In "Soclogy and Social Rearch" (1932-33) a paragraph on the "gay t" phenomenon not, "Homosexual practic are more mon than rare this group, " and gey t "homosexual boy" is attted Noel Erske's 1933 dictnary of "Unrworld & Prison Slang" (gey is a Sttish variant of gay) "Dictnary of Amerin Slang" reports that gay (adj.

Rawson ["Wicked Words"] not a male prostute g gay reference to male homosexuals (but also to female prostut) London's notor Cleveland Street Sndal of 1889. [John Boswell, "Christiany, Social Tolerance, and Homosexualy, " 1980]As a teen slang word meang "bad, ferr, unsirable, " whout reference to sexualy, om (n. If you e gay to mean happy, as , "I have great news that will make you very gay, " you might end up wh a viated German word for gay is schwul as an adjective and Schwuler as a noun.

GAY

In the 1890s, the term “gey t” (a Sttish variant of gay) was ed to scribe a vagrant who offered sexual servic to women or a young traveler who was new to the road and the pany of an olr man. In 1951, gay appeared the Oxford English Dictnary for the first time as slang for homosexual, but was most likely ed this way “unrground” at least 30 years earlier.

GAY DICTNARY

” This le (ad-libbed by Grant) n be terpreted to mean that he was behavg a happy-go-lucky or lighthearted way but is accepted by many as the first e of gay to mean homosexual a mastream movie. When gay is ed today to mean stupid or unsirable ( has only been ed this way sce the 1990s), rri wh a history of negative judgment and rigid ias about who or what is acceptable. It’s Pri Month and one of the most lourful words the English language – wh more makeovers than Madonna and more dramatic life stori than Liza Mnelli – is the word ‘gay’!

Like every hero, ‘gay’ has an orig story, but even today, scholars are disagreement over the precise journey took to reach the level of fame (or famy) mands nowadays.

THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

Sometime between the 11th and late 15th centuri, ‘gai’ crossed the English Channel and end up as ‘gay’, but kept s French meangs – ‘cheerful’, ‘happy’, ‘merry’, and ‘lively’.

By the 1970s, the term ‘gay man’ had bee firmly entrenched s current meang, referrg only to ‘homosexual men’, which was a far cry om jt a hundred years earlier, when meant ‘womaniser’ or ‘sexually unhibed man’.