"Gay" ed to mean happy/fun, but that age is very old. People would hardly regnize now. Gay means homosexual now.
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- WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO E THE WORD "GAY" BS OR AMIL WRGS? [DUPLITE]
- BLOG: DO GAY STILL MEAN HAPPY? – LGBT+ REPRENTATN TELEVISN
WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO E THE WORD "GAY" BS OR AMIL WRGS? [DUPLITE]
I know that that was a joke, but is still appropriate to say gay to refer that someone's happy or merry the days? In the se of the word gay, popular age the days would tend to flt to the homosexual terpretatn, but 's not a semantic shift. So short, y, 's still appropriate to e the word gay the sense of happy, so long as 's prented appropriate ntext.
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BLOG: DO GAY STILL MEAN HAPPY? – LGBT+ REPRENTATN TELEVISN
My worry, however, is that some of the viewership of the shows om a morbid cursy om nservative muni, and whout the unterpart of light-hearted edi wh unburned gay and trans people, young people who are new to the muny see only fear and hatred, and bee even more sred and ashamed of who they are. “Unfortunately, kid’s tv flips the script on other shows and featur a disproportnately small amount of male gay and bisexual reprentatn”. Lookg back, I n’t thk of a sgle outwardly LGBTQ character on the televisn I watched as a kid the 00’s (outsi of RTD’s Doctor Who era wh an obv si eye to Le on Sarah Jane Adventur), wh some works gog as far as phg characters together to prove they weren’t gay (lookg directly at Disney’s treatment of Kelsey and Ryan High School Mil on this one).
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