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I want to apologize for my most recent blog (GAY=100) (i took it down. that bad). I had missed used the word "gay", and i am sorry. i'm very un-cultured, (shocker), but its true. So i decided to educate myself and did a little research on the word and this is what i found:


- noun

a homosexual person, especially a male.

- adverb

 

in a gay manner.

Origin:
1275–1325; 1950–55 for def. 5; Middle English gai  < Old French < Germanic; compare Old High German gāhi  fast, sudden

—Related forms

gay·ness, noun

non·gay, adjective

qua·si-gay, adjective

—Synonyms 1. gleeful, jovial, glad, joyous, happy, cheerful, sprightly, blithe, airy, light-hearted; vivacious, frolicsome, sportive, hilarious. Gay, jolly, joyful, merry  describe a happy or light-hearted mood. Gay  suggests a lightness of heart or liveliness of mood that is openly manifested: when hearts were young and gay. Jolly  indicates a good-humored, natural, expansive gaiety of mood or disposition: a jolly crowd at a party. Joyful  suggests gladness, happiness, rejoicing: joyful over the good news. Merry  is often interchangeable with gay : a merry disposition; a merry party; it suggests, even more than the latter, convivial animated enjoyment. 2.  brilliant.

—Antonyms 1.  unhappy, mournful.

—Usage note In addition to its original and continuing senses of “merry, lively” and “bright or showy,” gay  has had various senses dealing with sexual conduct since the 17th century. A gay woman  was a prostitute, a gay man  a womanizer, a gay house  a brothel. This sexual world included homosexuals too, and gay  as an adjective meaning “homosexual” goes back at least to the early 1900s. After World War II, as social attitudes toward sexuality began to change, gay  was applied openly by homosexuals to themselves, first as an adjective and later as a noun. Today, the noun often designates only a male homosexual: gays and lesbians. The word has ceased to be slang and is not used disparagingly. Homosexual  as a noun is sometimes used only in reference to a male.

Hayley Michelle