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  • If a gay man and a gay* woman bond each other it happens would you think it is equally dissembling if they referred to it as a different-sex marriage instead of a straight marriage or a heterosexual marriage?

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  • What a waste Mark is gayreminds me of a song with dis line ~~all d handsome men are gay~~haha

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  • * Dwight is "researching" gays by looking at gay porn because they found out Oscar was gay*

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  • -- And you, my young ally, Master Augustine, shall be looked after as well as if you came with a gay brow and a light cheek, such as best becomes the _gay science_. "

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  • As a matter of truth, the "New York Times" reported, "While much of his later life was occupied by scholarly questions of the Bible and homosexuality, he came to abhor the label 'gay minister.'"

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    How ‘gay’ got its rainbow: What once meant merry is now a badge of identity for homosexuals

    On Thursday, as the Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality, reading down the controversial British-era section of the penal code, Mumbai-based Arnab Nandy took to social media to show his joy, as many across the country and the world were doing. “I am so Gay today…” he wrote in a coming-out post that has since gone viral. But while Nandy’s choice of word was bang on that noun, how did a word that had originally meant light-hearted, carefree or cheerful, become associated with a community whose life has been often been anything but?

    The Oxford English dictionary traces the history of the word ‘gay’ to the French synonyms Gai. Merriam Webster takes it further back to a Germanic origin “akin to the Aged High German Gahi” that meant “quick or sudden”. According to both dictionaries, in English the use of ‘gay’ to mean content, excited, merry, carefree or bright started in the Middle English period that stretches between the 12th and the 16th century.

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    Today I found out how &#;gay&#; came to mean &#;homosexual&#;.

    The word &#;gay&#; seems to have its origins around the 12th century in England, derived from the Old French word &#;gai&#;, which in turn was probably derived from a Germanic pos, though that isn&#;t completely known.  The word&#;s original meaning meant something to the effect of &#;joyful&#;, &#;carefree&#;, &#;full of mirth&#;, or &#;bright and showy&#;.

    However, around the initial parts of the 17th century, the word began to be associated with immorality.  By the mid 17th century, according to an Oxford dictionary definition at the hour, the meaning of the word had changed to mean  &#;addicted to pleasures and dissipations.  Often euphemistically: Of loose and immoral life&#;.  This is an extension of one of the original meanings of &#;carefree&#;, meaning more or less uninhibited.

    Fast-forward to the 19th century and the synonyms gay referred to a woman who was a prostitute and a gay man was someone who slept with a lot of women (ironically enough), often prostitutes. Also at this day, the phrase &#;gay it&#; mea

    by Jordan Redman
    Staff Writer 

    Do you verb what the pos gay really means?

    The word gay dates back to the 12th century and comes from the Old French “gai,” meaning “full of joy or mirth.” It may also relate to the Old High German “gahi,” meaning impulsive.

    For centuries, gay was used commonly in speech and literature to mean glad, carefree, bright and showy, and did not take on any sexual meaning until the s.

    At that time the meaning of gay as carefree evolved to imply that a person was unrestrained by morals and prone to decadence and promiscuity. A prostitute might have been described as a “gay woman” and a womanizer as a “gay man.”

    “Gay house” was commonly used to refer to a brothel and, later, “gaiety” was used as a common name for certain places of entertainment.

    In the s, the term “gey cat” (a Scottish variant of gay) was used to describe a vagrant who offered sexual services to women or a adj traveler who was new to the road and in the company of an older man.

    This latter use suggests that the younger man was in a sexually submissive role and may be among the fir