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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:00 AM Original message |
When did the word "gay" become synonymous with "homosexual?" |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
1. here: |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:06 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Thanks! |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
2. This will become |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
3. It's been around for a long time, but didn't lose its meaning |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I remember that with the Flintstones |
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formernaderite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I'm a bit older |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. The sixties stage play Camelot used it in at least one song..."The Lusty Month of May." |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
6. When we began being told hetero marriage is misery. |
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Botany (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
8. From the Flintstones |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
9. In the 1938 screwball comedy "Bringing up Baby" Cary Grant's character |
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ellenfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
10. as a former 'fag hag', i don't believe that the term 'gay' became |
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FreeState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:21 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Women use gay too |
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frebrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. "Gay" being applied primarily to males is a more recent thing... |
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frebrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
11. I remember "gay" being in common use among gay people......... |
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gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
13. OED entry, with the different definitions and origins. |
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frebrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:45 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. The problem in the URL was the space before the left parenthesis |
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Cid_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
16. I heard it was a Thursday.... |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. LOL. |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:55 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Nope, But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day, Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.n/t |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 02:49 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. That's me baby! Sunday's child, and I'm "good n' gay" alright. |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 06:48 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. I posted it while sitting here with one of my best friends in the world, also a Sunday baby and |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:04 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Hehe! |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 07:53 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. You single, Kurovski? He is wonderful and will hopefully be single again soon. |
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Stevenmarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
19. The day they created colorful costumes out of crepe paper |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 02:53 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. LOL!!! |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
23. As I recall, it in the 1970s that gay became restricted to homosexual description |
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madmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
24. Went to school with a girl named Gay, that and happy was the only way I ever heard it used. |
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JackBeck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
25. The word “gay” was first used in the 1920s in the gay underground. |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 08:35 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. And of course the homophobic fundie groups still insist on using 'homosexual' |
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JackBeck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 05:16 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. I still cringe anytime I read or hear someone use 'homosexual.' |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
27. I first heard it used as a pejorative in the mid-1970's... |
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trackfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
28. I would guess it's some time later than this advertisement: |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 11:07 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Fruit or vegetable label? |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 07:55 AM Response to Original message |
33. The Oxford English Dictionary will answer all etymological questions. :-) |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
35. When the gay community started calling themselves that |
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