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.
Contents:
- GAY AS A WDOW
- THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
- THE TE MEANG BEHD “THAT’S SO GAY”
- GAY (ADJ.)
- THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
- LE GAY PARIS
- GAY AS A WDOW ED MEANG
GAY AS A WDOW
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THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
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THE TE MEANG BEHD “THAT’S SO GAY”
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GAY (ADJ.)
It’s Pri Month and one of the most lourful words the English language – wh more makeovers than Madonna and more dramatic life stori than Liza Mnelli – is the word ‘gay’! 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’. 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. Unknown to many, ‘gay’ was velopg a nghty si. When a ‘gay woman’ was a sex worker!
THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
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Sometime the late 17th century, ‘gay’ began to velop a sendary meang. Hence, a ‘gay man’ was a man addicted to sex who equented brothels (‘gay ho’) and nsorted wh ‘gay women’ (sex workers). ‘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.
LE GAY PARIS
The age of ‘gay’ to mean ‘sexually unhibed’ creased throughout the first half of the 20th century om slang to mastream age.
By the 1950s, ‘gay’ had bee a well-tablished word for scribg people who enjoyed hedonistic liftyl, be they hetero- or homosexual.
GAY AS A WDOW ED MEANG
But was a later, durg the 1960s, that ‘gay’ beme strongly associated wh homosexualy.
By the 1970s, the term ‘gay man’ had bee firmly entrenched s current meang, referrg only to ‘homosexual men’, which was a far cry om jt a hundred years earlier, when meant ‘womaniser’ or ‘sexually unhibed man’. Nowadays, the word ‘gay’ has bee an acceptable self-intifier for many members of the LGBTQ+ muny.
Among boys and young men, ‘That’s gay! ’ This age is found most often among younger mal North Ameri/the UK and rearch shows that young men wh iends the LGBTQ+ muny e the word ‘gay’ a much ls pejorative way than those whout. Exposure and faiary appear to be the bt ways to bat this negative urpg of the word ‘gay’.