Gay | Defn of Gay by Webster's Onle Dictnary

Contents:

• GAY
• QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
• GAY
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

GAY

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QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT

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.

GAY

now sometim offensive; see age paragraph below: sexual or romantic attractn to others of one's same sex: the qualy or state of beg gay.

Outsi of those ntexts, however, the word n be seen as evokg negative stereotyp and outdated clil unrstandgs of homosexualy as a psychiatric ndn.

Dpe his ntributns to advancg Black people’s eedom, Rt was phed to the background by his peers bee of his homosexualy.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

Heche, whose father hid his homosexualy until his ath om AIDS 1983, was drawn to the talk show host's honty about her sexualy. Many people image that your parents are like Usher’s parents, who n’t accept his homosexualy and are skeptil of his reer ambns. There were mors of gay cliqu the church, and wispread homosexualy semari, all of which Benedict abhorred.

Peters was a trailblazer his ank and timate pictns of homosexualy, spirualy and mental illns the 1950s. The exampl are programmatilly piled om var onle sourc to illtrate current age of the word 'homosexualy. The Vatin has said prevly that homosexualy shouldn’t rry crimal penalti, though Catholic teachg forbids homosexual acts.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

The Enomist specifilly ced a pair of 13th and 14th-century poets, Rumi and Hafiz, who lived morn-day Iran and often wrote about homosexual relatnships. It’s not much of an exaggeratn to say that close to everyone promently featured Young Bloomsbury was homosexual.

Use of a slur that targets trans people creased 53%, while stanc of an offensive term for homosexual men went up 39% over the yearly average.

Y 21st century beg homosexual is a punishable crime Iran and now she and Elham Chobdar are sentenced to be executed. Billy Eichner, noted homosexual, found himself the target of some odd gossip when a clickba article toutg his relatnship wh Noelle star Anna Kendrick went viral.

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

In 1895, Osr Wil had his boyiend’s father, the Marqus of Queensberry, arrted for accurately suggtg that Wil was a homosexual. Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his ath.

When his roommate at the Naval Amy said jokgly last year that Andrew Atwill was a homosexual, the midshipman told him to cut out. The exampl are programmatilly piled om var onle sourc to illtrate current age of the word 'homosexual.

Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng (one's sexual or genr inty), tersex, and asexual/aromantic/agenr.

? SummaryIn the ntext of LGBTQ+ inty, the word gay is typilly ed reference to a person who is sexually and/or romantilly attracted to people of their own sex or genr.

Some people may intify as both gay and queer, though others may e only one of the terms or a different term altogether. In this article, we will expla how the terms gay and queer are ed differently the ntext of sexualy and genr inty. In the ntext of sexual inty, the word gay is generally ed to mean “of, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of their own sex or genr.

Women who are attracted to other women often e the word lbian, though some women also e the term gay as well.

Some people may intify as both gay and queer, wh some g the terms to dite different thgs different ntexts.

A man who is attracted to other men may intify as gay while also intifyg as part of the queer muny. - someone who practic homosexualy; havg a sexual attractn to persons of the same sexSynonyms: homo, - bright and pleasant; promotg a feelg of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny se"Synonyms: cheery, - full of or showg high-spired merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet uld not but be gay, such a jocund pany"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the rnn"; "jolly old Sat Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry lghter"; "a mirthful lgh"Synonyms: jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, - given to social pleasur often cludg dissipatn; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue wh an eye for the ladi" - brightly lored and showy; "girls cked out brave new drs"; "brave banners flyg"; "`braw' is a Sttish word"; "a drs a b too gay for her years"; "birds wh gay plumage"Synonyms: braw, - offerg fun and gaiety; "a gala ball after the guratn"; "a ftive (or ftal) ocsn"; "gay and excg night life"; "a merry eveng"Synonyms: ftal, ftive, gala, - homosexual or arog homosexual sirSynonyms: homophile, queerAC-DC, abandoned, addled, alert, amphierotic, animate, animated, antic, toerotic, beamg, beatific, beatified, beery, bemed, botted, bisexed, bisexual, blsed, bld dnk, blissful, blhe, blhome, boon, brash, brave, bravura, braw, bright-hued, brilliant, bubblg, bubbly, buoyant, burng, butch, nt, perg, persome, reee, chichi, chipper, chirpg, lory, ltish, nfint, nvivial, crapulent, crapulo, dancg, darg, dashg, bched, bonair, ep-lored, viant, vil-may-re, dissipated, dissolute, dizzy, drenched, drsy, dnk, dnken, effemate, effervcent, exhibnistic, exotic, exuberant, far-gone, fast, ftal, ftive, flashg, flashy, flntg, flhed wh joy, fltered, forward, fou, ee, ee and easy, illy, isky, olicsome, othy, full, full of beans, gala, gallant, gamome, garish, gdy, gay-lored, giddy, glad, gladsome, glterg, glor, glowg, geo, hail-fellow-well-met, hearty, high-lored, high-spired, hilar, homoerotic, homophile, homosexual, liquor, ebriate, ebriated, ebr, tense, toxited, verted, jnty, jazzy, jocund, jubilant, keen, lghg, leapg, lbian, licent, light-hearted, lively, mannish, many-lored, mdl, mellow, merrymakg, mirthful, muddled, nappy, on the loose, overweeng, perverted, playful, prumg, profligate, purrg, phful, phy, queer, radiant, raffish, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, reelg, rich, rich-lored, rollickg, rollicksome, rompish, sapphic, self-assertive, shikker, showy, sgg, sktish, sg, smirkg, snazzy, sodn, sotted, sparklg, spired, splashy, splurgy, sportive, sporty, starry-eyed, thrice happy, tiddly, tipsy, transvte, tribadistic, unbridled, unr the fluence, val, vivac, vivid, wild, ztful, zippy.

While all the words mean "keenly alive and spired, " gay strs plete eedom om re and overflowg spirs. The words animated and gay n be ed siar ntexts, but animated appli to what is spired and active. 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. Given to social pleasur, pecially at the expense of ser pursus: "You know she is gay, and wild, lov pany and mirth, and that was her impatience of rtrat the thgs, that ma the breach between her and her father" (Daniel Defoe).

]gay′ns Note: The word gay is now standard s e to refer to people whose sexual orientatn is to the same sex, large part bee is the term that most gay people prefer referrg to themselv. When the tend meang is not ntextually evint, the phras gay and lbian or lbian and gay are monly ed. Gay is generally nsired objectnable when ed as a noun to refer to particular dividuals, as There were two gays on the panel; here phrasg such as Two members of the panel were gay is preferable.

But there is no objectn to the e of the noun the plural to refer llectively eher to gay men or to gay men and lbians, so long as is clear whether men alone or both men and women are beg discsed. [C13: om Old French gai, om Old Provençal, of Germanic orig]ˈgayns nUsage: Gayns is the word ed to refer to homosexualy.