Defn of gay_1 adjective Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictnary. Meang, pronunciatn, picture, example sentenc, grammar, age not, synonyms and more.
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- GAY
- GAY
- WHAT IS THE PARATIVE OF GAY?
- ADJECTIV FOR GAY
- WHAT IS THE PARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORM OF GAY?
- GAY
- WORDS TO DCRIBE GAY
- GAY
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* comparative adjectives gay *
(of people, pecially men) sexually attracted to people of the same sex synonym homosexualgay menI didn't know he was she gay? He is openly gay.
Oppose straightTopics People societyb2Oxford Collotns Dictnaryverbsbelooksound…adverbopenlyphrasgay and lbianSee full entry.
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gayer * comparative adjectives gay *
[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. (old-fashned) brightly louredThe garn was gay wh red geraniums.
WHAT IS THE PARATIVE OF GAY?
Gay is a word wh many meangs. A gay person is homosexual, but if we scribe somethg like a scene or a party as gay, that means 's bright, merry, and happy. * comparative adjectives 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:.
ADJECTIV FOR GAY
gay. Only sce the begng of the 20th century has queer been ed to refer to people who intify as gay or lbian. Is "homosexual" still e?
The standard fn of homosexual is “a person sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex. ” But, ’s typilly applied to men, and lbian is the term for a female homosexual. GLAAD prefers that we don’t e the term homosexual bee ’s “aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred.
Bee suggts that beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or of another sexual orientatn is a choice and the person n be “cured.
WHAT IS THE PARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORM OF GAY?
It’s not a gay liftyle.
The word gay refers to a homosexual man, but origally meant “lighthearted, joyful, reee.
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” Gay as an adjective meang “homosexual” go back at least to the 1930s.
Today, gay liftyle is a monly ed—and mised—term. In the LGBTQ muny, gay liftyle, as well as homosexual liftyle, are sometim owned upon. It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out.
WORDS TO DCRIBE GAY
It’s also OK to scribe someone as openly gay, lbian, or bisexual. But never out someone, or expose their lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr inty, whout permissn.
Banishg the "homosexual agenda".
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But, people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr also re about a wi variety of other polil, social, and cultural issu.
The term homosexual agenda is ed by anti-gay extremists to create a climate of fear and mistst. It’s sometim ed as a disparagg way to scribe the recment of heterosexuals to a homosexual liftyle. All to say, let’s banish homosexual agenda om our vobulary.