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Contents:
- SOUNDS GAY I'M MEME GENERATOR
- SOUNDS GAY, I’M
- SOUNDS GAY, I'M IN
- WRTLEDRAG: SOUNDS GAY, I’M IN!
- SOUNDS GAY, I’M IN
- WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
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“My bs and your law practice ought to make a pretty gay team, Dave. “I remember” the pearl-clutchers are wont to say, “when beg gay jt meant beg happy.
Siarly nonsensil is the assumptn that this humble three-letter word enjoyed a centuri-long untroubled existence as a synonym for “happy” before gettg -opted by the Gay Lguistics Agenda* some time around 1967.
Earlit of the word gay. By the 13th and 14th centuri gay was ed adjectivally of anythg (or anyone) bright, lourful, or generally reee, and this fn has ed persevered for a signifint perd of time tanm wh s later variants.
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"My bs and your law practice ought to make a pretty gay team, Dave." - Mark Twa (Century Magaze, Feb. 1894) "I remember" the pearl-clutchers are wont to say, "when beg gay jt meant beg happy." There's a certa fiance to this statement, often leavg me to fer the ntuatn as ".. people like you didn't exist".… * sounds gay in in *
“Som gay broght yow th vp on the viroot”. Gay also appears at a noun this perd, somethg which may be more regnisable today pound forms such as nosegay – a ltle bundle of flowers tradnally given as a gift.
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Now obsolete, gays would have been ivolo amements for children such as toys or picture books.
As recently as 1922, ventor Leo Gerstenzang veloped the first mercial tton swabs and lnched them on an unspectg public as Q-Tips Baby Gays. Bright beme gdy and reee beme rels and sooner or later a gay person uld jt as easily be unrstood as a lasciv or hedonistic one.
WRTLEDRAG: SOUNDS GAY, I’M IN!
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It’s worth emphasisg that the two terpretatns uld fortably -exist: Troil & Crisey (1385) Chcer scrib a lover’s heart as “sh and gay”, whilst The Miller’s Tale (1390) a “gay gerl” is a wanton one. It’s this latter fn which is believed to have veloped to our ntemporary unrstandg of gay as referrg to homosexualy.
From the early 17th century, to go gay was to viate om the straight and narrow favour of a gdier, more dissolute liftyle.
Charl Victor Fremy was sometim very, very gay.
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In the US, gog gay had a particular meang among Quakers: renouncg pla livg and givg onelf over to pleasur such as drkg, gamblg, and dancg ( other words, behavg like the Church of England).
In the late 18th-19th centuri, a gay woman uld also be a prostute and a gay hoe a brothel – both phemistic given the word’s more mastream terpretatns. Gay the 20th century. “…and the whole rough and tumble of homosexual activy”.
WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
Given the word’s pluraly of terpretatn – and the forced clanste nature of non cis/het relatnships – there is some bate as to the first rerd e of gay meang a homosexual person or qualy.