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• GAY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• GAY (ADJ.)
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• MEANG OF "GAY" THE ENGLISH DICTNARY
• GAY

GAY

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MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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GAY

gay adjective.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

(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.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

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

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

homoseksueel, vrolijk, helr…. homosexuální, jásavý, ptrý….

GAY (ADJ.)

homoseksuel, glad, munter…. homoseks, gembira, cemerlang….

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

(dla) homoseksualistów, gejowski, ≈ gej…. homoseksual, gembira, terang…. homofil, homo-, homofil [mascule]….

See synonyms for gay on Ths.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY

Adjective, gay·er, gay·, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of their own sex or genr: A gay uple strolled by on the, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted only to people of their own sex or genr: Gay and bisexual men are both discsed this, ditg, or supportg terts or issu pertag to gay people or the gay muny: He giv charable ntributns to a gay anizatn. Havg or showg a merry, lively mood: gay spirs; gay Use.

Bright or showy: gay lors; gay ornaments. (ed pecially of women and pecially poetry) betiful, lofty, noble, or excellent: The learned man hath got the lady gay. Excellent; topnotch: a gay and lofty md.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

Given to or aboundg social or other pleasur: a gay social season; the Gay Use.

Sexually unrtraed; havg loose morals: In the 1930s movie, the baron is referred to as “a gay old rogue wh an eye for the ladi. Appropriately forward or bold; overly faiar; reckls: Gee got gay at the Christmas party and sudnly swept his boss's wife onto the dance floor. A person, pecially a man, who is sexually or romantilly attracted exclively to people of the same sex or of gay1First rerd 1275–1325; Middle English gai, om Old French “happy, cheerful, ” om Germanic; pare Old High German gāhi “fast, sudn”age alert For gayThe sexual orientatn meang of the word gay has bee so predomant that people hate to e the term s origal sens of “merry, lively” and “bright or showy.

The word gay has had var sens alg wh sexual nduct sce the 17th century.

MEANG OF "GAY" THE ENGLISH DICTNARY

A gay woman was a prostute, a gay man a womanizer, a gay hoe a brothel. This sexual world clud gay men too, and gay as an adjective the sexual meang go back at least to the late 1930s.

After World War II, as social attus toward sexualy began to change, gay was applied openly by gay men to themselv, first as an adjective and later as a noun. Today, the noun often signat only gay men and is ually ed as a llective plural: gays and lbians.

How do gays feel about this? It has been argued that gay the sense “awkward, stupid, or bad” is pennt of the sexual sense, and therefore not homophobic. This argument is weakened by the fact that the sexual meang has long been the domant one, and th permeat all ag of gay.

GAY

See also homosexual.

Age note For gayWords like gay and lbian are often ed as umbrella terms scribg anyone who experienc same-genr attractn, and also as more specific labels.