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Contents:

• GAY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• GAY ADJ. N.
• 5 DICTNARY ENTRI FOR "GAY"
• THE OXFORD DICTNARY IS CHANGG THE DEFN OF 'MARRIAGE' TO INCLU GAY COUPL

GAY

(of people, pecially men) sexually attracted to people of the same sex synonym homosexualgay menI didn't know he was she gay? Oppose straightTopics People societyb2Oxford Collotns Dictnaryverbsbelooksound…adverbopenlyphrasgay and lbianSee full entry. [only before noun] nnected wh people who are gaya gay club/barthe lbian and gay munythe gay and lbian sectn the bookstoreOxford Collotns Dictnaryverbsbelooksound…adverbopenlyphrasgay and lbianSee full entry.

[not before noun] (slang, disapprovg, offensive) (ed pecially by young people) an offensive way to scribe somethg you fd borg, stupid or not attractive (parative gayer, superlative gayt) (old-fashned) happy and full of fungay lghterShe felt lighthearted and gay.

(old-fashned) brightly louredThe garn was gay wh red geraniums. See also gaiety, gailyWord OrigMiddle English ( sense (4)): om Old French gai, of unknown whout thkg about the rults or effects of a particular actn See gay the Oxford Advanced Amerin DictnarySee gay the Oxford Learner's Dictnary of Amic EnglishCheck pronunciatn:. (Defn of gay om the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictnary & Ths © Cambridge Universy Prs).

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

(Defn of gay om the Cambridge Amic Content Dictnary © Cambridge Universy Prs). gay, homosexuel/-elle, gay [mascule-feme]…. An adjective meang cheerful or reee that acquired an associatn wh loose morals and sexual licentns the 19th century, and approximately the 1940s me to e among members of the homosexual muny to scribe male homosexualy.

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

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

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.

GAY ADJ. N.

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.

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. There are five meangs listed OED's entry for the word homosexual.

5 DICTNARY ENTRI FOR "GAY"

See ‘Meang & e’ for fns, age, and quotatn 10occurrenc per ln words morn wrten English The earlit known e of the word homosexual is the 's earlit evince for homosexual is om 1891, the wrg of John Addgton Symonds, wrer and advote of sexual reform. Homosexual is formed wh English, by poundg; origally molled on a German lexil em.

THE OXFORD DICTNARY IS CHANGG THE DEFN OF 'MARRIAGE' TO INCLU GAY COUPL

1891– Characterized by sexual or romantic attractn to, or sexual activy wh, people of the same sex; volvg or relatg to same-sex sire or sexual as an adjective and a noun, homosexual was for much of the first half of the 20th cent. While the term is still ed many formal ntexts, om the 1960s onwards gay beme preferred by many same-sex oriented men, who regard homosexual as too formal and clil, or as beg associated wh a history of the treatment of homosexualy as a medil or psychiatric ndn and the crimalizatn of sex between men many jurisdictns. 1891The thor enavoured a general theory regardg the orig and prevalence of homosexual passns., Probl.

601892He had been ee om homo-sexual clatns.

2551930Michel proceeds om a heterosexual liaison to a homosexual one. New York Tim Book Review 20 April 9/41965Homosexual behavr human femal, also known as lbianism or sapphism,.

Ls likely to aroe social censure than male homosexualy.