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gay means to be happy

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GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

Another way to say Gay? Synonyms for Gay (related to happy). * gay means to be happy *

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.

Glad to be Gay. The song was origally wrten by Tom Robson for a London gay pri.

WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO E THE WORD "GAY" BS OR AMIL WRGS? [DUPLITE]

Defn of not gay as happy, but queer as fuck you "Gay" means "homosexual". However, "Gay" meant "happy" the 1900s. "I feel so gay!" = "I feel so happy!" It is rarely ed this way now. "Queer" is a slur meang "homosexual". It is very . Do not e . However, some gay people proudly ll themselv "queer" as an act of fiance. "Not gay as happy, but queer as fuck you" = "I'm not a pole gay person. I'm an angry, fiant gay person." * gay means to be 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.

SYNONYMS FOR GAY

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.

I know that that was a joke, but is still appropriate to say gay to refer that someone's happy or merry the days? In the se of the word gay, popular age the days would tend to flt to the homosexual terpretatn, but 's not a semantic shift. So short, y, 's still appropriate to e the word gay the sense of happy, so long as 's prented appropriate ntext.

FOX'S MARK LEV: “THE WORD GAY ED TO MEAN HAPPY ... BUT NOT ANYMORE,” AND “YOU'RE JT TRYG TO DOMATE WH YOUR LANGUAGE”

This turn has led to a rponse of an altogether more lic variety: Gay Water, a new premium nned cktail brand packaged lorful ntaers and named after the slang term ed for vodka and soda water wh lemon or lime, a popular drk served gay bars.

Gay Water offers four different varieti of sugar-ee, gluten-ee vodka and soda cktails bed wh var, well, uy flavorg agents: watermelon, peach, lime, and grapeu. Gay means happy.

HOW TO BE HAPPY AS A GAY MAN

Appearg time to take advantage of the nned cktail boom, Gay Water won't be direct petn wh Bud Light, which is a beer brand.

Hodson, a gay man, is not only terted Gay Water appealg to LGTBQ+ nsumers, of urse. Gone are the days when beg gay meant to be happy. Today, to be gay means you are a homosexual man and for a woman, the specific term is lbian.

By no means am I holdg brief for lbians and gay people whom my opn are volved a practice I do not know anythg about or support. Now fay and iends of gay people are also punished for supportg their loved on as Sub-sectn 3 of the Same-sex marriage (Prohibn bill) says “any person or group of persons that wns, abet and aids the solemnisatn of a same sex marriage or civil unn or supports the registratn, operatn and stenance of gay clubs, societi, anisatn, procsns and meetgs Nigeria ms an offence and shall be liable on nvictn to a term of 10 years imprisonment”.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY MEANS TO BE HAPPY

Fox's Mark Lev: "The word gay ed to mean happy ... but not anymore," and "you're jt tryg to domate wh your language" | Media Matters for Ameri .

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