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Contents:

• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “GAY” AND “HOMOSEXUAL"? IS ONLY BY GENR?
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• GAY (ADJ.)

SYNONYMS OF GAY

While all the words mean "keenly alive and spired, " gay strs plete eedom om re and overflowg spirs. The words animated and gay n be ed siar ntexts, but animated appli to what is spired and active.

While the synonyms sprightly and gay are close meang, sprightly suggts lightns and spired vigor of manner or w. The synonyms vivac and gay are sometim terchangeable, but vivac suggts an activens of gture and w, often playful or allurg.

The word gay dat back to the 12th century and om the Old French “gai, ” meang “full of joy or mirth.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

For centuri, gay was ed monly speech and lerature to mean happy, reee, bright and showy, and did not take on any sexual meang until the 1600s. At that time the meang of gay as reee evolved to imply that a person was unrtraed by morals and prone to nce and promiscuy.

A prostute might have been scribed as a “gay woman” and a womanizer as a “gay man. “Gay hoe” was monly ed to refer to a brothel and, later, “gaiety” was ed as a mon name for certa plac of entertament.

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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. This latter e suggts that the younger man was a sexually submissive role and may be among the first tim that gay was ed implyg a homosexual relatnship. 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.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “GAY” AND “HOMOSEXUAL"? IS ONLY BY GENR?

” 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.

As part of the curriculum, Unheard Voic featur a sectn on the word “gay, ” s history and how to e the word properly.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

Unheard Voic released a seri of statements ma by stunts around the Uned Stat on the phrase “that’s gay.

Amerins e the word 'gay' now stead of 'homosexual'” Mreen Dowd’s article tled “Happily Never After? Aren’t “gay” and “homosexual” the same thg except “gay” beg applied to men? What’s the difference between “gay” and “homosexual” other than genr attribut?

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

Both gay and homosexual n be ed for both sex, and they mean mostly the same thg; the differenc are subtle. Probably bee the word lbian exists as well, one is slightly more likely to refer to men when g the word gay; but note that is very often also ed for women. When ed as a noun, gay seems to refer to men a b more often than as an adjective, although is still very often ed to refer to both men and women.

Gay is more rmal: homosexual is more formal, and so is more likely to be ed e. As a nsequence, g homosexual n sometim sound a ltle b as if you were scribg patients, as if were some mental illns. Bee homosexualy was long treated as a disease or at least as unsirable, some of this old negativy still clgs to the word homosexual, pecially as a noun.

I thk this is also the reason why the word gay me to be ed (around the 1960s? You will fd that most gays will maly e gay, except a scientific ntext; and even there, homosexual as a noun has bee almost impossible. If you were to say homosexuals, and you weren't over 50 or a b reactnary general, I would thk you were jokg.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

Gay is perhaps applied more monly to men (as both fns state), but isn't exclive. ) om the mouth of a real live lbian, who lived through the wars of Who Are We, Lbians or Gay Women? If you want to e the word "homosexual, " then you are a doctor or scientist, or a parent who was raised the 1930s.

GAY (ADJ.)

Anyway, gays took back the word "gay" bee was beg ed as a slur agast them, much like the n-word, much like the word faggot (and if you are unfaiar wh the rivatn of the word faggot, I suggt you n to your dictnary right now, sce is no where near as fortable as the rivatn of the word lbian). Suffice to say that the word homosexual is an outdated term all but the most tached scientific wrg; that the word lbian appli strictly to women; and that the word gay n refer to both men and women, but ually refers to men.

There are some who would argue that "homosexuals" are those who meet the clil fn of beg more attracted to members of the same sex than those of the oppose sex (given that most theori of sexual orientatn today dite that sexual orientatn is a ntuum, that heterosexualy and homosexualy are more than or ls than differenc rather than dichotomi).