Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• GAY
• WHAT IS THE PARATIVE OF GAY?
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

GAY

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[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. 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:. Use of “lbian” to scribe women terted other women me shortly after, durg the height of the women’s rights movement, when gay women wanted a way to lguistilly differentiate themselv om gay men.

From Middle English gay, om Old French gai (“joyful, lghg, merry”), ually thought to be a borrowg of Old Occan gai (“impetuo, lively”), om Gothic *?????? (*gaheis, “impetuo”), mergg wh earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), om Frankish *gāhi;[1] both om Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudn”). The sense of homosexual (first rerd no later than 1937 by Cary Grant the film Brgg Up Baby, and possibly earlier 1922 the poem "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gert Ste[6][7]) was shortened om earlier gay t ("homosexual boy") unrworld and prison slang, self first attted about 1935, but ed earlier for a young tramp or hobo attached to an olr one.

WHAT IS THE PARATIVE OF GAY?

2003, Michael McAvennie, The World Wrtlg Entertament Yearbook:She uldn't even ga accs om a fay iend whose name was on the list, nor uld she e her feme charms to turn on the staff member, who revealed he was gay and was more imprsed seeg Billy and Chuck enter the buildg. 2005, Mark Caldwell, New York Night, page 133:Of the dozen or so survivg articl, squibs, and letters to the edor, the most remarkable appeared the Whip and Satirist’s Febary 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a bal of gay men New York's otherwise wholome nightspe of brothels and rts. Among the syndite of perverts, the wrer announced, "we fd no Amerins as yet—they are all Englishmen or French" (the English lled homosexualy the French vice and the French the English vice; for the Whip was the French and English vice).

The two failed attempts to receive the necsary accs to medilized transn procr by the renowned FTM activist Lou Sullivan—a gay man who refed to ply wh the imperative that transsexual men mt sire women— […]. 2010, Noėl Sturgeon, Environmentalism Popular Culture: Genr, Race, Sexualy, and the Polics of the Natural, page 128:In fact, as several letter wrers to the New York Tim poted out their rponse to the article, the disjuncture between the two popularized pengus shows how radilly separated om each other are muni of gay people and muni of right-wg relig nservativ: if the Christian fundamentalists had looked up "gay pengus" or even "pengus" on the Inter, they would have enuntered several gay pengu s, cludg the story of Roy and Silo, the Central Park Zoo gay pengu uple about whom a children's book was wrten; the saga of the gay pengu muny at a German zoo; and the mpaign of Gay Pengu for Print (whose slogan was "Gee W. 1977, Charl Silverste; Edmund Whe, The Joy of Gay Sex, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:Gays meet each other special-tert social groups—gay softball leagu, gay bike clubs, gay gymnasia, gay activist polil anizatns, the Gay Amic Unn (an anizatn for gay teachers, scholars and stunts), gay universy stunt clubs and so on.

2003, Lawrence Block, Small Town, page 269:He might well have spected Cheek was a gay bar whout seeg any of s patrons, simply bee was a neighborhood where most of the bars were gay, and bee you uldn't see the wdows.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

2014, Christopher Schaberg; Robert Bent, Denstctg Brad Pt, Bloomsbury Publishg USA, →ISBN, page 211:Beg gay for Brad, even a teensy b, is at the very least beg able to image the potential for queerns. In a sense, like the recent popular and cril furor over men who are gay-for-pay, beg gay for Brad is what Jefey Esffier f as "suatnal homosexualy, " or other forms of man-on-man behavr […] In other words, rather than worry over whether or not men who are queer for Brad n easily be labeled as straight or gay, […]. 1905, Barons Emmka Orczy, chapter 2, The Affair at the Novelty Theatre‎[7]:Miss Phyllis Man, as the hapls heroe drsed the shabbit of cloth, appears the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophis all and sundry there, cludg the villa, and has a magnificent scene which always brgs down the hoe, and nightly adds to her histrnic lrels.

2019, Lawrence Lariar, He Died Lghg, Open Road Media, →ISBN:We shot along Sunset Boulevard at a gay pace, and squealed a turn down Ve Street wh never a jterbug pestrian to make the drivg tertg.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

[…], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickerg […], 1873, →OCLC:A Beavie of fair women, richly gay / In gems and wanton drs. 1946 May and June, “Not and News: Special Servic for the Welsh Natnal Eisteddfod”, Railway Magaze, page 188:Rhos statn had been cleaned up for the ocsn, and s sgle platform was gay wh flags. John, The Subalpe kgdom: or, Experienc and studi Savoy, Piedmont, and Genoa, volume 2, page 158:Prce Bhe was what is lled a "gay, dissipated man"—that is to say, a powerful person leadg a bched and famo life.

1879, Great Bra, Reports om mte, Hoe of Commons, page 61:[…] is possible for people to be diseased whout beg prostut or gay women; is possible for people years ago to have spent a gay life and to have not got rid of their disease, or they may have bee diseased by their hbands or lovers. 1889, Albert Barrère; Charl Godey Leland, A Dictnary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracg English, Amerin, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidg English, Tker's Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology‎[8], volume 1, page 399:Gay (mon), loose, dissipated; a "gay woman" or "gay girl, " a prostute. E., bched, than Zeno's urt, so the ladi of gay disposn had great sway ; particularly one, whose name was Fsta, who, though not extremely handsome, was by her w and sprightls very agreeable to the emperor.

Some claim that homosexual is dated and evok a time when homosexualy was nsired a mental illns by the mental health muny, while others feel that the word homosexual(y) do not exprs the emotnal aspects of sexual orientatn.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

When ed ordatn wh other terms for sexual orientatns, ually specifilly refers to men who are attracted only to men, and exclus lbians, bisexuals and other orientatns, as phras like lbian, gay and bisexual (LGB). anti-gaydon't say gayex-gaygay-assgay bargay-bashgay bashgay bashergay bobgay bombgayborhoodgay boyGaybrahamgay ncergay chickengay curgay-dargaydargay athgaydomgay for paygay for the staygay-iendlsgay-iendlygay iendlygay-hategay ingay liberatngay mangay marriagegay-marrygay marrygaynsgay panic fensegay plaguegay prigay-related immune ficiencygay-related immunoficiencygay rightsgay-shamegay-shamggaysomegay-straight alliancegay tyke boygay upgunclehomogayI'm gayland rights for gay whalnosegaypray away the gaypray the gay awayprison gaypro-gay.

GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?

If however the stranger be spected of “sailg unr false lours, " when they are all faiar chat about nothg particular, “Co Jacky” will take ocsn to say to the new chum, “My ar; d 'e ever see a duck clunk a gay? 1869, Joseph Carr, Sketch of village life, by “Eavdropper”, page 60:Now, to end my story, if o' t' village beti wad g t' relign that good ld parson Jenks remends, wad gay sharply mak' t' dirty women clean, […].

^ Stephan Cohen, The Gay Liberatn Youth Movement New York: ‘An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail’ (2007, →ISBN), quotg Sylvia Rivera: "'If you want Gay Power, then you're gog to have to fight for .

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

' For Rivera, 'gay' meant non-heteronormative (or 'queer' today's lexin), crossg sexual and genr boundari to clu lbians, gay men, and transvt, as well as the street youth who had participated Stonewall. In some s transgenr people are also clud the term, although many transgenr people do not nsir themselv gay or lbian, and at some pots gay history, transgenr rights were nsired part of the gay rights movement.