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 ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- GAY (ADJ.)
- 'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
- GAY PICTUR
- THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?
THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
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Like every hero, ‘gay’ has an orig story, but even today, scholars are disagreement over the precise journey took to reach the level of fame (or famy) mands nowadays.
‘Gay’ was Germanic before cid to go all French and fancy. The prevailg theory is that ‘gay’ me om Old Germanic, origally soundg like ‘gahi’, which meant ‘fast’ or ‘quick. Sometime between the 11th and late 15th centuri, ‘gai’ crossed the English Channel and end up as ‘gay’, but kept s French meangs – ‘cheerful’, ‘happy’, ‘merry’, and ‘lively’.
GAY (ADJ.)
In The Canterbury Tal, Geofey Chcer wrote, “Why is my neighebor wyf so gay? Gay would stubbornly clg to s ‘cheerful/merry/happy’ meang for over five hundred years until well to the mid-20th century.
'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
Unknown to many, ‘gay’ was velopg a nghty si. When a ‘gay woman’ was a sex worker! How long have you been gay?
Fanny, the lady fe cloth, has been ‘gay’ (i. Sometime the late 17th century, ‘gay’ began to velop a sendary meang.
GAY PICTUR
Hence, a ‘gay man’ was a man addicted to sex who equented brothels (‘gay ho’) and nsorted wh ‘gay women’ (sex workers).
THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?
‘Gay’ was slowly beg a negative word. Wh this double meang, ‘gay’ quickly expand om meang ‘sexually unhibed’ and spilled over to clu homosexual relatns. The age of ‘gay’ to mean ‘sexually unhibed’ creased throughout the first half of the 20th century om slang to mastream age.