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Contents:

• HALLMARK ORNAMENT HAS ‘DECK THE HALLS’ – WHOUT THE GAY APPAREL
• HALLMARK IS TAKG THE GAY OUT OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS
• "GAY APPAREL" STRIPPED OM CHRISTMAS CAROL, BUT QUICKLY RE-DONNED
• DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL
• 'DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL: GAY MEN'S DRS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (DRS, BODY, CULTURE) PAPERBACK – SEPTEMBER 1, 2000
• 'DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL' : GAY MEN'S DRS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
• DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL
• DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL LGBT LONG SLEEVE T SHIRT
• DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL

HALLMARK ORNAMENT HAS ‘DECK THE HALLS’ – WHOUT THE GAY APPAREL

[Verse 1]Deck the halls wh boughs of hollyFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la'Tis the season to be jollyFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-laDon we now our gay apparelFa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-laTroll the ancient Yule-ti rolFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la[Verse 2]See the blazg Yule before Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-laStrike the harp and jo the chosFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-laFollow me merry measureFa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-laWhile I tell of Yule-ti treasureFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la[Verse 3]Fast away the old year passFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-laHail the new year, lads and lassFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-laSg we joyo, all togetherFa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-laHeedls of the wd and weatherFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-laHow to Format Lyrics:Type out all lyrics, even repeatg song parts like the chosLyrics should be broken down to dividual lUse sectn hears above different song parts like [Verse], [Chos], alics (<i>lyric</i>) and bold (<b>lyric</b>) to distguish between different volists the same song partIf you don’t unrstand a lyric, e [? Company says "gay" has multiple meangs today. One of Hallmark’s ornaments for the holiday season is snowballg to some ntroversy followg the replacement of the word “gay” while quotg “Deck the Halls.

The tradnal le om the famo Christmas song is “Don we now our gay apparel. The change ed one Facebook er to ment on Hallmark’s official page, “It’s OK to be GAY!! “When the lyrics to ‘Deck the Halls’ were translated om Gaelic and published English back the 1800’s, the word ‘gay’ meant ftive or merry, ” acrdg to a statement released Wednday.

Don we now our gay apparel…. Gay entered the language the 12th century wh the meang “full of joy or mirth. The word gay the 1890s had an overall tge of promiscuy — a gay hoe was a brothel.

HALLMARK IS TAKG THE GAY OUT OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS

The “Dictnary of Amerin Slang” reports that gay (adj.

) was ed by homosexuals, among themselv, this sense sce at least 1920. Gay as a noun meang “a (ually male) homosexual” is attted om 1971.

”That’s an alln to the le om “Deck the Halls”: “Don we now our gay apparel. ” But gay don’t mean what did the 19th century, when the rol’s words were wrten. ‘gay’ still means happy -- joyful -- I refe to let the word [be] hijacked by the same-sex relatnship muny, ” one Facebook menter wrote on the pany’s wall Thursday.

"GAY APPAREL" STRIPPED OM CHRISTMAS CAROL, BUT QUICKLY RE-DONNED

Say you're an elementary school mic teacher sgg Christmas rols, specifilly "Deck the Halls, " wh your class and every time the lyric "don we now our gay apparel" up, the kids look at each other and giggle hysterilly bee the word "gay" is super funny to eight year olds. Do you take ntrol of your class like an experienced tor or do you, an attempt to curb the outbursts, change the lyrics of a 150 year old song and replace the word "gay" wh "bright"?

DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL

This angered parents took to the school's Facebook page (ments have sce been removed and postg disabled) sayg "By takg the word 'gay' out of 'Deck the Halls, ' you are makg a big al. This would have been a great time to teach kids that "gay" isn't a bad word, that shouldn't be ed as a rogatory term, or at least throw a synonym lson there.

Kids may snicker at the word "gay" a song, but 's only bee they've been tght that 's taboo, which really shouldn't be. Ink argued, a brief asi, that “there is no longer a reason, except nostalgilly, to e ‘gay’ as a synonym for ‘merry. “Your suggtn … that ‘gay’ should not be ed to scribe happy, ebullient, cheerful, reee attus is polil rrectns taken to a ludicro extreme.

'DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL: GAY MEN'S DRS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (DRS, BODY, CULTURE) PAPERBACK – SEPTEMBER 1, 2000

That year, the AHD offers five fns of the word ‘gay’: Showg or characterized by exuberance or mirthful excement; merry; cheerful; jolly.

Homosexual. Acrdg to this list, homosexual was the least mon fn for the word “gay. ” Back those days, the homophob might be able to make through “Deck the Halls” whout smirkg.

” The word now even earns one of AHD’s famo Usage Not: “The word gay is now standard s e to refer to homosexuals, large part bee is the term that most gay people prefer referrg to themselv. Gay is distguished om homosexual primarily by the emphasis plac on the cultural and social aspects of homosexualy as opposed to sexual practice. He offers this tt to his rrponnt: Please, go ahead and e the word “gay” s tradnal sense.

'DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL' : GAY MEN'S DRS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Declare aloud how everyone looks like they are havg a gay time. Compliment the bikers on their gay outfs. Tell them how much fun you’re havg a gay bar.

Gay style actually sets trends. Tony WoodckFrom the New Edwardians and mcle boys to Radil Drag and Genrfuck, gay mens drs has had a profound impact on fashn. However, is easy to fet that, wh few exceptns, gay men earlier the century took great pas to nceal their sexual inty.

Most gay men rorted to a number of subtle drs s to intify themselv to other gay men -- om Osr Wils famo green rnatn, which was still beg worn the 1930s, through to sue sho. Begng wh a look at the subcultural world of gay men the early part of this century -- particularly New York and London -- this fascatg book analyz the trends drs adopted by gay men as well as the challenge gay style has ma to mastream mens fashn. The importance of drs choice to the formatn of sexual inty is highlighted, as is gay fluence on punk and the fashn dtry as a whole.

DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL

The rise of new drs choic the wake of gay liberatn is analyzed wh particular emphasis on the masculizatn of gay drs. The importance of the body to gay culture is addrsed, om the physique magaz of the 1950s, through to tattoog and body piercg, and their origs the SM terted gay culture or the history of drs will fd this book to be sential readg.

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Hallmark—“when you re enough to send the very bt”—has ed a stir by takg the “gay” out of Christmas.

” The pany dched the tradnal, “Don we now our gay apparel, ” bee many ntexts, gay means ‘homosexual, ’ replacg wh “Don we now our fun apparel, ” which Hallmark felt would be more acceptable to a general dience that clus pdish adults, imprsnable children, and fundamentalists. Acrdg to the Los Angel Tim, Hallmark ially rpond to crics of this move by argug that the words “gay apparel” were not necsarily thentic to beg wh, but rather translatns om a Gaelic origal, so they uld be replaced by other, synonymo words.

DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL

The pany sisted that, sce “gay” today means somethg different om what meant the neteenth century, that “uld leave our tent open to misterpretatn. ” In other words, even though the Supreme Court says same-sex marriage is nstutnal, Hallmark didn’t want to be seen by nservative ctomers as endorsg a gay agenda. The joke that the pany tried to expla away s attempt to take the “gay” out of Christmas by referrg to a Gaelic origal?

In 1862 the Sttish poet Thomas Oliphant took the tune of the Welsh Nos Galan, a New Year’s song that had nothg to do wh Christmas, boughs of holly, or any kd of clothg, gay or otherwise, and put his own words to , creatg what would then bee one of the most popular Christmas rols. When Oliphant wrote “don we now our gay apparel” he surely meant somethg like ‘brightly lored, ftive’ clothg. But gay had other meangs too.