GAY Meang: "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, reee;" also "wanton, lewd, lasciv" (late 12c. as a surname,… See orig and meang of gay.
Contents:
- THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
- THE ORIG OF THE WORD ‘GAY’ S HOMOSEXUAL NTEXT
- GAY (ADJ.)
- WHEN DID "GAY" BEE ASSOCIATED WH HOMOSEXUALY? [DUPLITE]
THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
by Jordan Redman Staff Wrer Do you know what the word gay really means? The word gay dat back to the 12th century and om the Old French “gai,” meang “full of joy or mirth.” It may also relate to the Old High German “gahi,” meang impulsive. * when did the term gay first used *
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.
There was also another word “gey t” at this time which meant a homosexual boy. By 1955, the word gay now officially acquired the new add fn of meang homosexual mal. 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). Although women uld still be lled gay if they were prostut as that meang had not yet 100% disappeared. Sce then, gay, meang homosexual male, has steadily driven out all the other fns that have floated about through time and of urse also has gradually begun supplementg the word ‘lbian’ as referrg to women who are homosexual.
THE ORIG OF THE WORD ‘GAY’ S HOMOSEXUAL NTEXT
by N. David Williams Williams-Nichols Collectn Department of Archiv & Special Collectns Universy of Louisville Use of the word "gay" a homosexual ntext may date to as long ago as Paris the late 16th century, when homosexuals were reportedly lled 'gai," but there are a uple of other trigug and perhaps more provable… * when did the term gay first used *
The Only Major League Baseball Player to Openly Adm He was Gay Durg His Career Also May Have “Invented” the High-Five. When the Canadian Government Used “Gay Detectors” to Attempt to Root Out Gay People. The abstract noun ‘gaiety’ has somehow largely steered clear of havg any sort of sexual nnotatn as wh the word “gay”.
Male homosexualy was illegal Bra until the Sexual Offens Act of 1967. Bee even mentng someone was a homosexual was so offensive at the time England, people who were thought to be gay were referred to as “sporty” wh girls and “artistic” for boys.
GAY (ADJ.)
* when did the term gay first used *
Brgg Up Baby 1938 was the first film to e the word gay to mean homosexual. When another character asks about why he is wearg that, he rponds an ad-libbed le “Bee I jt went gay”.
The term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as different tim and different cultur, homosexual behavur has been varly approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned. Homosexualy was not unmon ancient Greece and Rome, and the relatnships between adult and adolcent mal particular have bee a chief foc of Wtern classicists recent years.
WHEN DID "GAY" BEE ASSOCIATED WH HOMOSEXUALY? [DUPLITE]
Juo-Christian as well as Mlim cultur have generally perceived homosexual behavur as sful. Others—om factns wh mastream Prottantism to anizatns of Reform rabbis—have advoted, on theologil as well as social grounds, the full acceptance of homosexuals and their relatnships.
Morn velopments Attus toward homosexualy are generally flux, partially as a rult of creased polil activism (see gay rights movement) and efforts by homosexuals to be seen not as aberrant personali but as differg om “normal” dividuals only their sexual orientatn. The nflictg views of homosexualy—as a variant but normal human sexual behavur on one hand, and as psychologilly viant behavur on the other—rema prent most societi the 21st century, but they have been largely rolved ( the profsnal sense) most veloped untri.
The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, for example, classified “ego-syntonic homosexualy” (the ndn of a person ntent wh his or her homosexualy) as a mental illns 1973. Nohels, some relig groups ntue to emphasize reparative therapy the attempt to “cure” homosexualy through prayer, unselg, and behavur modifitn. Wherever opn n be eely exprsed, bat about homosexualy will likely ntue.