Fox's Mark Lev: "The word gay ed to mean happy ... but not anymore," and "you're jt tryg to domate wh your language" | Media Matters for Ameri

Contents:

• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY MEANS HAPPY AND HAPPY MEANS GAY
• FOX'S MARK LEV: “THE WORD GAY ED TO MEAN HAPPY ... BUT NOT ANYMORE,” AND “YOU'RE JT TRYG TO DOMATE WH YOUR LANGUAGE”
• WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO E THE WORD "GAY" BS OR AMIL WRGS? [DUPLITE]
• GAY
• GAY= HAPPY (ED THE DAY?)

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

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.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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.

The song was origally wrten by Tom Robson for a London gay pri.

GAY MEANS HAPPY AND HAPPY MEANS GAY

An out gay sger, he subsequently formed the. "Glad to Be Gay" is built around four vers cricizg Brish society's attus towards gay people. In the first verse, criciz the Brish police for raidg gay pubs for no reason at all, once homosexualy had been crimalized sce the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act.

In the send verse, pots to the hypocrisy of Gay News beg prosecuted for obsceny stead of porn magaz like magaz Playboy or the tabloid The Sun which publish photographs of topls girls on Page 3. It also criciz the way homosexual people are portrayed other parts of the prs, pecially nservative newspapers News of the World and Sunday Exprs. On the third verse, pots out the extreme nsequenc of homophobia, such as vlence agast LGBT people.

FOX'S MARK LEV: “THE WORD GAY ED TO MEAN HAPPY ... BUT NOT ANYMORE,” AND “YOU'RE JT TRYG TO DOMATE WH YOUR LANGUAGE”

For me, a young child livg London at the time, the term gay (meang homosexual and not "happy") was ed much more equently by the media and the general public after the release of "Glad to be Gay". It also helped that Tom Robson looked straight and was not the least mp, he did not f the stereotypil ia of how homosexuals looked and behaved. In school, I was at the lowt posn on the totem pole – I was red-head, gay, had external brac, and a heavy lisp.

Meang of gay English.

WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO E THE WORD "GAY" BS OR AMIL WRGS? [DUPLITE]

gay adjective. (Defn of gay om the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictnary & Ths © Cambridge Universy Prs). gay | Amerin Dictnary.

(HOMOSEXUAL). Note: Sometim gay refers only to men. Gay.

(Defn of gay om the Cambridge Amic Content Dictnary © Cambridge Universy Prs). Translatns of gay.

GAY

gay, homosexual, alegre…. gay, homossexual, gay [mascule-feme]…. eşcsel, homoseksüel, şen şakrak….

GAY= HAPPY (ED THE DAY?)

gay, homosexuel/-elle, gay [mascule-feme]….

homoseksueel, vrolijk, helr…. homosexuální, jásavý, ptrý…. homoseksuel, glad, munter….

homoseks, gembira, cemerlang….