Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• GAY

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

“Beardg” is a slang term scribg a nsc attempt by a lbian or gay man to hi her or his homosexualy om others by appearg to date or marry someone of the oppose sex. Some gay actors and actrs rpond by eher self-iatg a beardg relatnship or havg one arranged for them by the stud to which they were ntracted. For example, then-Hollywood heartthrob Rock Hudson, hearg that Confintial magaze was planng to expose his homosexualy, married his agent’s secretary as a ver 1955 (she herself is mored to have been a lbian).

In a 2011 terview wh Joy Behar, Betty Whe implied she ocsnally beard for the flamboyantly gay Liberace. Liberace, who never publicly admted to beg gay, 1954 announced his engagement to actrs Joanne R, but they never end up marryg. While most people are aware of at least some Hollywood beardg efforts, the public is probably ls aware of efforts by lbians Hollywood to hi their sexualy than gay men.

Although not exactly a “beardg” suatn, Rosie O’Donnell’s self-profsed fatuatn for Tom Cise the mid-90s on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” helped mask her homosexualy om the stay at home mom crowd that formed the bulk of her viewership. Although the Hays Co was replaced 1968 and gay marriage has been legal sce 2015, the drivers behd an dividual choosg to beard (avoidg public scty that would rult blackballg/loss of e, fear of rejectn by fay and iends, etc.

NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

Although Amerins are more likely to be faiar wh beardg by gay men (skepticism at “Amerin Idol” sger Clay Aiken’s prottatns of heterosexualy greatly exceed crly about them), mors about Oprah beg a secret relatnship wh Gayle Kg and, to a much lser extent, Dolly Parton and Judy Ogle, have shown astonishg riliency over s, suggtg that at least some Amerins unrstand that some celebry lbians (if not actually Oprah and Dolly) still feel a need to rema closeted. For example, the sger Ricky Mart me out 2010 as gay, but do that mean the women he dated the 1990s were beards? Tom Robson a Brish mician and sger, one of the first, if not the very first pop artist who did not disguise or hi his homosexualy om the general public.

Until then homosexual actors, micians, athlet or anyone the public eye had two choic life: to keep their homosexualy a secret, pecially om the media, or adopt the mannerisms and a of drs which were very mp but at the same time (ironilly) never admtg their sexual preferenc publicly. Tom Robson released a very succsful song entled (Sg if you're) Glad to be Gay, was the mid-70s, and I was still at a Catholic primary school when I remember que distctly hearg gay beg ed for the first time to unteract the BrEng rogatory terms such as: poofter, poof, queer, not normal, fairy and queen that were rife at the time. Glad to be Gay.

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The song was origally wrten by Tom Robson for a London gay pri. An out gay sger, he subsequently formed the.