Defn of Gay happy meetgs
Contents:
- GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
- GAY= HAPPY (ED THE DAY?)
- GAY HAPPY MEETGS WONRFULL TIME OF THE YEAR?
- HOLIDAY GREETGS AND GAY HAPPY MEETGS
- GAY HAPPY MEETGS CANDLE
GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
Defn of gay happy meetgs Gay actually means beg lively mood i.e gay spirs, gay mic. So s like "lively happy meetg" the song. * and gay happy meetings *
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.
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= HAPPY (ED THE DAY?)
* and gay happy meetings *
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.
GAY HAPPY MEETGS WONRFULL TIME OF THE YEAR?
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. And gay happy meetgs when iends e to ll.
HOLIDAY GREETGS AND GAY HAPPY MEETGS
I learned that the word gay also has the meang of beg happy om an old song. We had a gay old time down down at the dance floor. Like if we are happy, we do not and nnot say "I'm so gay.
Y, 's not possible to say 'gay old time' the days unls you are tendg to make a pun of . I rell a time when "a gay old time" was unremarkable, but I don't rell a time when "I'm so gay" uld mean "I'm so happy".
Well, i dont get this one part: “…It’s the hap-happit season of allWh those holiday greetgs and gay happy meetgs When iends e to ll…”.
GAY HAPPY MEETGS CANDLE
Do “gay happy meetgs” mean what i thk means, or do mean somethg else.