The history of the word “gay” | The Gayly

Contents:

• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• GAYER
• THE MEANG OF GAY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
• GAY
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAYERGAY·ER

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

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

“Gay hoe” was monly ed to refer to a brothel and, later, “gaiety” was ed as a mon name for certa plac of entertament. 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.

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

THE MEANG OF GAY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT

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The first and most mon fn of the word gay is a sexual orientatn which someone is attracted to their own sex or genr.

Usually, gay means a gay man or homosexual man, but the word gay n also be ed as an umbrella term for all gay people, cludg a gay woman or nonbary person. If you scribe someone else as gay to expla that they’re happy, people might be unr the imprsn that they are LGBTQ.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

Never e the word gay to sult or disparage someone, and make sure that you only scribe someone as gay if they have explicly told you that you n. We volunteer wh gay and lbian elrs on the weekends and love hearg their stori about gay clubs the 60s and 70s.

The person origally thought they were a gay man, but then they started qutng their genr inty and realized they were actually a transgenr woman. The young woman realized her sexual attractn to women when she was high school, but she was aaid of g out bee her fay thought that gay life and the LGBTQ liftyle were rpt. To learn how to say the word gay other languag bis the English language, you n e this list of translatns of the word gay om Nice Translator.

Norwegian: homofilArabic: مثلي الجنسRomanian: gayUrdu: ہم جنس پرستGreek: γκέτοςPortugue (Portugal): gayTelugu: గేSerbian: гејGerman: FröhlichWelsh: hoywAmharic: ጋይDutch: gayMarathi: समलिंगीIcelandic: hommiFilipo: baklaSlovak: homosexuálnyBengali: সমকামীBasque: gerGujarati: લૈંગિકItalian: gayMalayalam: ഗെയ്Che (PRC): 同性恋Japane: ゲイKannada: ಸಲಿಂಗಕಾಮಿMalay: gayKorean: 게이Ukraian: гейSlovenian: gejIndonian: gayLatvian: gejsRsian: гейTurkish: eşcselFnish: homoDanish: homoseksuelFrench: gayEstonian: geiSwahili: mashogaSpanish: gayPortugue (Brazil): gayBulgarian: ГейCatalan: gaiLhuanian: gėjHungarian: melegCroatian: gayHebrew: הומוChe (Taiwan): 同性戀Hdi: समलैंगिकThai: เกย์Ta: கே. If you want to e the word gay to mean happy, is a better ia to e a synonym stead of the word gay so that people are not nfed.

THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’

Nowadays, people might get nfed if you e the word gay to mean happy, so is a good ia to e a synonym of the word gay stead. 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 prevailg theory is that ‘gay’ me om Old Germanic, origally soundg like ‘gahi’, which meant ‘fast’ or ‘quick. 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’.

Gay would stubbornly clg to s ‘cheerful/merry/happy’ meang for over five hundred years until well to the mid-20th century. Hence, a ‘gay man’ was a man addicted to sex who equented brothels (‘gay ho’) and nsorted wh ‘gay women’ (sex workers). Wh this double meang, ‘gay’ quickly expand om meang ‘sexually unhibed’ and spilled over to clu homosexual relatns.

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The age of ‘gay’ to mean ‘sexually unhibed’ creased throughout the first half of the 20th century om slang to mastream age. By the 1950s, ‘gay’ had bee a well-tablished word for scribg people who enjoyed hedonistic liftyl, be they hetero- or homosexual.

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’. ’ This age is found most often among younger mal North Ameri/the UK and rearch shows that young men wh iends the LGBTQ+ muny e the word ‘gay’ a much ls pejorative way than those whout.

DEFINITIONS FOR GAYERGAY·ER

Time will tell whether this age persists or, like so many language trends, ‘gay’ might velop new forms and meangs tim to e! From a wanrg Germanic word meang ‘quick’, evolved first to ‘cheerful’, then ‘sexually unhibed’, before fally g to mean ‘homosexual’. Given to social pleasur, pecially at the expense of ser pursus: "You know she is gay, and wild, lov pany and mirth, and that was her impatience of rtrat the thgs, that ma the breach between her and her father" (Daniel Defoe).

]gay′ns Note: The word gay is now standard s e to refer to people whose sexual orientatn is to the same sex, large part bee is the term that most gay people prefer referrg to themselv. Gay is generally nsired objectnable when ed as a noun to refer to particular dividuals, as There were two gays on the panel; here phrasg such as Two members of the panel were gay is preferable.

But there is no objectn to the e of the noun the plural to refer llectively eher to gay men or to gay men and lbians, so long as is clear whether men alone or both men and women are beg discsed. [C13: om Old French gai, om Old Provençal, of Germanic orig]ˈgayns nUsage: Gayns is the word ed to refer to homosexualy.