GAY | English meang - Cambridge Dictnary

Contents:

• WHAT MAK A GAY IN?
• WHAT IS A GAY IN?
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAY INGAY IN
• GAY IN
• GAY
• GAY INS
• WHAT IS "GAY IN"
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

WHAT MAK A GAY IN?

An dividual, typilly a celebry or famo person, who is held high regard and/or loved by the gay muny.

Gay ins aren’t necsarily Queer themselv, fact, many gay ins are heterosexual and cisgenr – but typilly, are strong alli (although too, many gay ins only bee strong alli after beg adopted by as gay ins). There is no specific set of requirements for a celebry to bee a gay in; some have been adopted as ins due to their flamboyant or mp style (e. Siarly across other areas of the entertament dtry, some celebri have achieved gay in stat for beg films that suggt or n be nsired metaphors (however loosely) for Queer them, love, etc.

; Judy Garland is perhaps one of the most famo exampl of achievg gay in stat, due to her appearance The Wizard of Oz. Other ins, such as German actrs Marlene Dietrich achieved gay in stat due to their own sexualy (Dietrich was a bisexual), but also their sense of style – Dietrich was a pneer breakg genr norms wh her prentatn: one of Dietrich’s most famo and celebrated looks is her a tuxedo and top-hat, which was revolutnary at the time.

WHAT IS A GAY IN?

Some tim, people achieve gay in stat merely for livg liv that have relatable experienc to the Queer journey: typilly those whose liv have been tragic.

DEFINITIONS FOR GAY INGAY IN

Not at all gay ins embrace the label or stat, ed, some have phed back agast or have been marred ntroversy sce (e. Gilmour got volved a pneerg anizatn, the Homophile Associatn of London, Ontar, and met a man 20 years his elr, who beme his first lover.

” But I am not sure why a llectn of clever gay men who were able to be themselv—wty and fun—qualifi as a llectn of hero. Siarly, Nancy Jo Cullen disvers that the Brish Columbia town of Nelson is surprisgly gay iendly and fds fort the prence of a lovg lbian uple. Ian Young’s “A Whiff of the Monster” is about lerary enfant terrible Stt Symons, who began his reer as a journalist and then beme the fearls, openly gay novelist the 1970s, who ed the term homosentient and, expansive—some would say herent—prose, scribed the life of a queer reprobate.

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His characters, too, were outsized personali, queer, mandg, often unacuntable, which upset gay rears who worried about mastream perceptns of gayns. This movement some ways was a progenor morn culture to non-bary ins, which is why we mt differentiate between “gay” in and “queer” in, for clivy. Velma Dkley om the Soby-Doo anchise was nfirmed to be nonilly gay, as were popular si characters Mr.

If the sudn gay in stat of The Babadook has tght anythg, is that a queer in’s appeal li subtlety and what one reprents, rather than explic actns. In the goln age of Hollywood queerns was reprsed, so the tragic figur like Judy Garland were ma martyrs, the AIDS crisis of the ‘80s and ’90s that vilified homosexuals the ey of many nservative Amerins led the way for stars who supported gay rights like Cyndi Lper to mand queer attentn. And if you bat for the other team, why should an adaptatn of a 34-year-old documentary about two crazy-t ladi livg a cmblg, racon-fted Hamptons pile send shivers of ecstasy up and down your hotblood homo spe?

)"Grey Garns" is not a gay movie, but there is no qutn that has a huge and loyal fan base among those of who enjoy same-sex stimul plans. Do shaved-head lawyers Dolce & Gabbana swimmg tnks rry black briefs full of vot to some unmarked gay bar where John Waters, Rsell Simmons and Cher mull over the mers of the homo-ne? Do Ethel Merman and Rock Hudson wele new ducte to the Gay Hall of Fame wh vodka cranberri and power bars?

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Spottg a gay in is like beg double-joted or ridg a unicycle: to laymen is imperceptible, but to gay men 's like, well, 's actually pretty simple: gay men of a certa age have an affy to people who, like them, have faced adversy, and who, like them, have had to fight to bee the person they want to be. I mentn gay men of a certa age bee I have found that the type of in has changed as the years and, to a certa extent, the prejudic have gone by.

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That said, even today most gay people will have lived some of their liv an environment where their te selv are not tolerated.

WHAT IS "GAY IN"

Let's not fet every gay person Ameri is livg a untry where their ernment do not nsir them to be worthy of the same rights as any straight person, so you n unrstand why beg able to intify wh your tribe is a joyo and liberatg thg.

If there is a smugns, an excln the anotg of gay ins while others may not even gus that they ronate wh , perhaps 's bee for so long we have been acctomed to secrets, s and a need to feel that there is somethg we have that is special and here's my beef: isn't the slavish votn to certa figur by a whole muny slightly menacg and spooky, even fascistic? The creativy and dividualy that were once associated wh beg "different" are watered down or, to -opt a word, homo-genized.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

I would like to advote replacg the word "gay" wh "queer" when talkg broad terms about our llective experience. 0 / 0 votGay inA gay in is a public figure who is regard as a cultural in by members of the LGBT muny.

Alternatively, if they have not acted as alli, they have been "openly appreciative of their gay fanbase".