What’s a name? Gay Street - Village Prervatn

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• GAY NIGHTLIFE MONA
• GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MONTE CARLO
• WHAT’S A NAME? GAY STREET
• GAY STREET

GAY NIGHTLIFE MONA

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Southward view of Gay Street via Wiki Commons.

GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE

Gay Street is one of the most charmg and picturque streets Greenwich Village, an in of the historic neighborhood’s anachronistic character.

And while the street certaly has strong nnectns to gay liberatn and the Ain-Amerin stggle for eedom, the history behd the name is a ltle murkier, and a ltle more plited to unravel, than one might expect.

Northward view of Gay Street via Wiki Commons. Gay street is unique several rpects. The three- and four-story Feral and Greek Revival-style ho which le much of s length give Gay Street a remarkably timate feel.

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In the later 19th century, when the Village was the center of New York’s Ain-Amerin muny, many of the rints of Gay Street were black, and many of them were also micians. Historic Bromley map of Manhattan showg Gay Street lower right (urty of David Jarrett — historic maps available on Village Prervatn’s webse; see “Maps” unr Rourc). But long before Ruth McKenna ma Gay Street famo, the street and s Greenwich Village surroundgs had already e to be associated wh the word “gay.

In morn parlance, “gay” means attracted to the same sex. But this was not always so, and the word’s evolutn, tertgly, mirrors that of Gay Street and s environs.

Gay origally meant reee, happy, exuberant. However, by the late 19th and pecially the early 20th century, the nnotatns of the word gay me to be creasgly associated wh a liftyle unfettered by the nventns of the day. At this time, the term “gay” was associated wh both men and women, many of whom lived plac like Greenwich Village or Paris.

WHAT’S A NAME? GAY STREET

As a rult, was said that they lived the “gay life. No doubt some of the inoclasts were “gay” by today’s fn.

It was not until the mid-20th century that e of the term “gay” me to more monly mean specifilly those attracted to the same sex, and was not until the late 20th century that this fn me to eclipse other and associatns. Of urse, durg this same time perd, Greenwich Village also evolved om beg one of the premier lol for those who were “gay”– as unfettered by ntemporary nventns — to, more specifilly, a mec for those who were “gay” — as attracted to the same sex. So where this arc of the evolutn of the meang of the word gay, and of Greenwich Village’s inty, did the name “Gay Street” emerge?

Acrdg to “The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan’s Street Nam and Their Origs” by Henry Mosw, the name Gay Street first appears officially the New York Cy Common Council mut on April 23, 1827 — when Greenwich Village was first beg settled as a suburb of New York by merchants fleeg the yellow fever epimics downtown. This was long before Greenwich Village had e to acquire any associatns wh the “gay” life — reee, same-sex, or otherwise.

GAY STREET

It has often been posed that the street was named for Sidney Howard Gay, edor of the Natnal Anti-Slavery Standard. But Gay was born 1814, and th would have been only thirteen years old when the first published reference to “Gay Street” appeared. In fact, the exact orig of the name of Gay Street do not appear to be nclively tablished.