Reply #3: It's been around for a long time, but didn't lose its meaning [View All]

[MineralMan]

of happy and celebratory until fairly recently. Remember the Flintstone's theme: "We'll have a gay old time." I don't know the dates of that series.

I used to volunteer in my local library, and every once in a while, the sound of giggling would come from one of the aisles in the stacks. It was always a group of middle-schoolers looking at a book with the title, "Gay Parties for All Occasions," published in the 1950s.