Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• GAY (ADJ.)
• GAY
• WHEN DID "GAY" BEE ASSOCIATED WH HOMOSEXUALY? [DUPLITE]
• ETYMOLOGY OF GAY
• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• THE MEANG OF GAY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT
• THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
• THE ORIG OF THE WORD ‘GAY’ S HOMOSEXUAL NTEXT
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

GAY (ADJ.)

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.

GAY

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. Found the English language; movg as a lguistic loan around the world, generalizg to intify the homosexual dividual by his cheerful and light behavr, referrg to the French gai, terpreted as one that shows a happy personaly, associated to the high German gāhi, ditg a state of sudn surprise, reflectg self the old Spanish ga, gai Catalan, ga Italian, and ga Portugue, emergg all s on a possible root the Occan om the forms gai, jai, for joyful. 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 term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as different tim and different cultur, homosexual behavur has been varly approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned.

WHEN DID "GAY" BEE ASSOCIATED WH HOMOSEXUALY? [DUPLITE]

Morn velopments Attus toward homosexualy are generally flux, partially as a rult of creased polil activism (see gay rights movement) and efforts by homosexuals to be seen not as aberrant personali but as differg om “normal” dividuals only their sexual orientatn. The nflictg views of homosexualy—as a variant but normal human sexual behavur on one hand, and as psychologilly viant behavur on the other—rema prent most societi the 21st century, but they have been largely rolved ( the profsnal sense) most veloped untri.

The Ksey report of 1948, for example, found that 30 percent of adult Amerin mal among Ksey’s subjects had engaged some homosexual activy and that 10 percent reported that their sexual practice had been exclively homosexual for a perd of at least three years between the ag of 16 and 55. After the 1969 Stonewall rts, which New York Cy policemen raid a gay bar and met wh staed ristance, many homosexuals were embolned to intify themselv as gay men or lbians to iends, to relativ, and even to the public at large.

In rponse to their activism, many jurisdictns enacted laws banng discrimatn agast homosexuals, and an creasg number of employers Ameri and European untri agreed to offer “domtic partner” benefs siar to the health re, life surance and, some s, pensn benefs available to heterosexual married upl.

ETYMOLOGY OF GAY

In one such stance, Albania repealed s sodomy statut 1995, and gay upl Amsterdam 2001 were legally married unr the same laws that ern heterosexual marriage (rather than unr laws that allowed them to “register” or form “domtic” partnerships). However, most shared wh gay men the sire to have a secure place the world muny at large, unchallenged by the fear of vlence, the stggle for equal treatment unr the law, the attempt to silence, and any other form of civil behavur that impos send-class article was most recently revised and updated by Alison Eldridge.

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. 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.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

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

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.

THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’

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, […].

THE ORIG OF THE WORD ‘GAY’ S HOMOSEXUAL NTEXT

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. […], 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. 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.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

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.