How ‘Gay’ Came to Mean ‘Homosexual’

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• GAY DICTNARY SPANISH

GAY DICTNARY SPANISH

The term dat back to a time the early 20th century when homosexualy was agast the law both the Uned Kgdom and the Uned Stat. Most monly has been lked to the film The Wizard of Oz bee Judy Garland, who starred as the ma character Dorothy, is often noted as a major in the gay muny. Startg the late 1980s, on several cise l, gay passengers began approachg ship staff, askg them to publicize gathergs the daily cise activy list.

The word “gay” seems to have s origs around the 12th century England, rived om the Old French word ‘gai’, which turn was probably rived om a Germanic word, though that isn’t pletely known. Fast-forward to the 19th century and the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostute and a gay man was someone who slept wh a lot of women (ironilly enough), often prostut.

In terms of the sexual meang of the word, a “gay man” no longer jt meant a man who had sex wh a lot of women, but now started to refer to men who had sex wh other men. Gay men themselv seem to have been behd the drivg thst for this new fn as they felt (and many still do), that “homosexual” is much too clil, soundg like a disorr. As such, was mon amongst the gay muny to refer to one another as “gay” s before this was a monly known fn (reportedly homosexual men were llg one another gay as early as the 1920s).