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- GAY (ADJ.)
- WHEN DID "GAY" BEE ASSOCIATED WH HOMOSEXUALY? [DUPLITE]
- GAY
- GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
- THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
- MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
GAY (ADJ.)
GAY Meang: "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, reee;" also "wanton, lewd, lasciv" (late 12c. as a surname,… See orig and meang of gay. * gay etymonline *
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.
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. Chaddock's translatn of Krafft-Ebg's "Psychopathia Sexualis, " om German homosexual, homosexuale (by 1880, Gtav Jäger), om Greek homos "same" (see homo- (1)) + Lat-based sexual.
WHEN DID "GAY" BEE ASSOCIATED WH HOMOSEXUALY? [DUPLITE]
A origem e o signifido gay são fornecidos pelo etymonle, dicnár gratuo etimologia para palavras, as e exprsõ em glês. * gay etymonline *
Havelock Ellis, "Studi Psychology, " 1897]Sexual versn (1883, later simply versn, by 1895) was an earlier clil term for "homosexualy" English, said by Ellis to have origated Italian psychology wrg. The word “gay” seems to have s origs around the 12th century England, rived om the Old French word ‘gai’, which turn was probably rived om a Germanic word, though that isn’t pletely known. Fast-forward to the 19th century and the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostute and a gay man was someone who slept wh a lot of women (ironilly enough), often prostut.
GAY
The meang of GAY is of, relatg to, or characterized by sexual or romantic attractn to people of one's same sex —often ed to refer to men only. How to e gay a sentence. Usage of Gay: Usage Gui Synonym Discsn of Gay. * gay etymonline *
In terms of the sexual meang of the word, a “gay man” no longer jt meant a man who had sex wh a lot of women, but now started to refer to men who had sex wh other men. Gay men themselv seem to have been behd the drivg thst for this new fn as they felt (and many still do), that “homosexual” is much too clil, soundg like a disorr.
GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
* gay etymonline *
As such, was mon amongst the gay muny to refer to one another as “gay” s before this was a monly known fn (reportedly homosexual men were llg one another gay as early as the 1920s).
Sce then, gay, meang homosexual male, has steadily driven out all the other fns that have floated about through time and of urse also has gradually begun supplementg the word ‘lbian’ as referrg to women who are homosexual.
THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
Bee even mentng someone was a homosexual was so offensive at the time England, people who were thought to be gay were referred to as “sporty” wh girls and “artistic” for boys. 2)"male homosexual, " 1914, Amerin English slang, probably om earlier ntemptuo term for "woman" (1590s), pecially an old and unpleasant one, reference to faggot (n.
3, 1889]Other obsolete Brish sens of faggot were "man hired to ary service merely to fill out the ranks at mter" (1700) and "vote manufactured for party purpos" (1817) explanatn that male homosexuals were lled faggots bee they were burned at the stake as punishment is an etymologil urban legend. Burng sometim was a punishment meted out to homosexuals Christian Europe (on the suggtn of the Biblil fate of Sodom and Gomorrah), but England, where parliament had ma homosexualy a pal offense 1533, hangg was the method prcribed.
MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
Use of faggot nnectn wh public executns had long been obscure English historil trivia by the time the word began to be ed for "male homosexual" 20th century Amerin slang, whereas the ntemptuo slang word for "woman" ( mon wh the other possible sourc or fluenc listed here) was active e early 20c., by D. 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.