Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• GAY
• SYNONYMS OF 'GAY' BRISH ENGLISH
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• DEFN OF 'GAY'
• THS:GAY MAN
• ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY
• GAYNS

SYNONYMS OF GAY

Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny.

While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym. As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns.

And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”.

GAY

Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist).

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer.

Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man.

SYNONYMS OF 'GAY' BRISH ENGLISH

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.

Synonyms for gayalertforwardgladjollykeensparklgwildanimateanimatedblheblhomebouncybrashreeecheerfulcheerychipperchirpynfintnvivialvil-may-reftiveivoloolicsomefun-lovggamomegleefulhilarsouciantjocundjovialjoyfuljoyolightheartedlivelymerrymirthfulplayfulpleasure-seekgprumgphyrollickgself-assertivpiredsportivprightlysunnyvivaczippyOn this page you'll fd 165 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gay, such as: alert, forward, glad, jolly, keen, and sparklg.

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MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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DEFN OF 'GAY'

Synonymssparky, gay (old-fashned), alive and kickg, full of beans (rmal), ztfulDefnvery happy or cheerfulHis spir was anythg but blhe below the surface. Robson was an openly gay sger-songwrer who performed unr the name Jonty Dream, his iend Tenille Clarke wrote for Brish Vogue. In terviews at the time, Ileana ced both Rodrigo and his sister — along wh shiftg views her district — as fluenc on her evolutn on gay rights.

In May, the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s board voted 3 to 2 to reject a new curriculum that clud discsns on the gay rights movement and mentned Harvey Milk, the first out gay man elected to public office California. That same year, Pieters beme a natnal spokperson for AIDS awarens and gay polil activism after his historic terview wh televangelist Tammy Faye on her broadst, which fied the work's homophobic tennci.

THS:GAY MAN

Part of Speech: Noun, Feme Transleratn: krge Phoic Spellg: (krow-gay') Short Defn: a shout, clamor, outcry Defn: (a) a...

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY

Part of Speech: Adjective Transleratn: anekdiegetos Phoic Spellg: (an-ek-e-ay'-gay-tos) Short Defn: scribable, that nnot...

Part of Speech: Noun, Feme Transleratn: plege Phoic Spellg: (play-gay') Short Defn: a blow, stripe, wound Defn: a blow...

From the same as lampas; radiant; by analogy, limpid; figuratively, magnificent or sumptuo ( appearance) -- bright, clear, gay, goodly, geo, whe.... Part of Speech: Noun, Feme Transleratn: e Phoic Spellg: (or-gay') Short Defn: anger, wrath, passn Defn: anger... Alma Mater choos Not to be for ever sober: But, like stately matron gray, Callg child and grandchild round her, Will for them at least be gay; Share for...

GAYNS

His father had ma for him of different piec of loured cloth joed together, and was so gay and betiful that every one who saw him wearg said...

The clear blue water, land- locked wh mountas; the meadows on the shore, gay wh their lili of the field, on which our Lord ba them look, and know the... Pools glterg on the long whe roads, And shadows sweepg on om down to down Before the salt Atlantic gale: yet e In whatsoever garb, or gay, or sad... But the nvents, which were left open to terurse wh the world, were very equently plac of worldly amement, and the girls lived a gay life, ...

The day's work at the by seaport is over, and the streets are thronged wh gay revelers tent on a night of pleasure, for is the wickest cy of that...

The betiful hills of Samaria, ceiled wh cedar and pated wh vern, wh s olive grov and veyards, and rich garns full of gay flowers and...

For woman is warm though man be ld, And the night will hallow the day; Till the heart which at even was weary and old Can rise the morng gay, Sweet wife... The wrgs of many of the ancients abound wh gay scriptns of the digny of man; whom some of them pat as havg all virtue and happs his...

Adjective, gay·er, gay·, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of their own sex or genr: A gay uple strolled by on the, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted only to people of their own sex or genr: Gay and bisexual men are both discsed this, ditg, or supportg terts or issu pertag to gay people or the gay muny: He giv charable ntributns to a gay anizatn. (ed pecially of women and pecially poetry) betiful, lofty, noble, or excellent: The learned man hath got the lady gay. Sexually unrtraed; havg loose morals: In the 1930s movie, the baron is referred to as “a gay old rogue wh an eye for the ladi.

Appropriately forward or bold; overly faiar; reckls: Gee got gay at the Christmas party and sudnly swept his boss's wife onto the dance floor. A person, pecially a man, who is sexually or romantilly attracted exclively to people of the same sex or of gay1First rerd 1275–1325; Middle English gai, om Old French “happy, cheerful, ” om Germanic; pare Old High German gāhi “fast, sudn”age alert For gayThe sexual orientatn meang of the word gay has bee so predomant that people hate to e the term s origal sens of “merry, lively” and “bright or showy.

This sexual world clud gay men too, and gay as an adjective the sexual meang go back at least to the late 1930s.

After World War II, as social attus toward sexualy began to change, gay was applied openly by gay men to themselv, first as an adjective and later as a noun. It has been argued that gay the sense “awkward, stupid, or bad” is pennt of the sexual sense, and therefore not homophobic. This argument is weakened by the fact that the sexual meang has long been the domant one, and th permeat all ag of gay.

Age note For gayWords like gay and lbian are often ed as umbrella terms scribg anyone who experienc same-genr attractn, and also as more specific labels. Umbrella age, as gay marriage or lbian uple, typilly refers to any same-genr pairg, or to any person who is attracted to people of their own genr. Gay self n also be ed as an even more general term scribg people of all genrs who are attracted to their own genr.

As more specific labels, gay and lbian often mean exclive attractn to the same genr, and may be ed ntrast wh terms like bisexual. And gay n also be ed to refer to only men who are attracted to men (exclively or not), ntrast to lbian, which only refers to women. Other words om gaygay·ns, nounnon·gay, adjectiveWords Nearby gaygawkgawkygawpGawragawsygayGayagayalGaya MaretangayatrigaydarOther fns for Gay (2 of 2)nounJohn, 1685–1732, English poet and dramatist.