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	Cross Dressers Discussion Forum: Re: Gay vs. Homophobic, Veronica on 8/06/2002 03:35
		The use of the word 'gay' as a synonym for homosexual comes from the first letters of the expression "good as you".
		References to one's sexuality, sex life, financial status and other personal matters are not topics for a 'polite' conversation in a social setting, and the use of the word gay now brings to mind sexuality rather than conviviality.
		However, when the acronym conflicts with the meaning and usage of an existing word, which is the case with 'gay', then it can create confusion and misunderstandings.
	f24.parsimony.net /forum54410/messages/28526.htm (416 words)

	New Order of the Barbarians - Tape 1
		But you know, the word homosexual, sodomite has been replaced with the term "gay", represents an ideology not only a word and when you use it, it's tacit to saying, "Yes, I accept what your interpretation of this is".
		The word "gay" carries a connotation, first of all, which is inaccurate.
		D.L.D: They probably had a committee working for months to pick which word they were going to use for this.
	users.bart.nl /users/lightnet/world/awaken/nobarbarians3.htm (9272 words)

	Gay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By 1963, the word "gay" was known well enough by the straight community to be used by Albert Ellis in his book The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Man-Hunting.
		Using the term gay as an adjective where the meaning is akin to "related to gay people, culture, or homosexuality in general" is a widely accepted use of the word.
		Gay can be also used as a plural collective-like noun: "Gays are opposed to that policy"; although this usage may be deprecated by some, it is common [4] particularly in the names of various organizations such as PFLAG: (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gay (2443 words)

	Gay
		The word gay has had a sexual meaning since at least the nineteenth century (and probably before) -- in Victorian England, female and male prostitutes were called "gay" (because they dressed gaily).
		The word "gay" is also used in juvenile slang to express derision or mockery.
		In the United States, the term may have arisen from the hobo community: a young hobo, a "gay cat" or "geycat", often had to befriend an older more experienced hobo for education and survival.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/g/ga/gay.html (404 words)

	gay. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		Many writers reserve gay for males, but the word is also used to refer to both sexes; when the intended meaning is not clear in the context, the phrase gay and lesbian may be used.
		The word gay is now standard in its use to refer to homosexuals, in large part because it is the term that most gay people prefer in referring to themselves.
		Gay is distinguished from homosexual primarily by the emphasis it places on the cultural and social aspects of homosexuality as opposed to sexual practice.
	www.bartleby.com /61/45/G0064500.html (317 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: schadenfreude
		The historian Peter Gay -- who felt Schadenfreude as a Jewish child in Nazi-era Berlin, watching the Germans lose coveted gold medals in the 1936 Olympics -- has said that it "can be one of the great joys of life."
		Word of the Day for Wednesday May 10, 2000
		Today's Word - Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Mailing List - Help
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2000/05/10.html (140 words)

	Gay biography .ms
		The inclusive meaning refers to both men and women who prefer sexual or romantic relationships with their own sex (though there is some disagreement about this, hence the term "lesbians and gay men" – see homosexuality).
		The most famous of these early "gays" was Thomas Collingwood, a portly, cherub-faced musician who had fallen on hard times after a prolonged period without work.
		Skeene " (1922) is possibly the first traceable use of the word, although it is not altogether clear whether she uses the word to mean lesbianism or happiness.
	gay.biography.ms (140 words)

	Sex, Gods and Gay People Underlying The Myths - Inner Work With Paul Chirumbolo
		Put simply, Gaia is the root from which we derive the word gay.
		The original word for the FAIRIES was "fay," a common euphemism for effeminate or gay.
		And these gay priests, with their magical operations, were themselves often inseparable from the gender-benders who came before, the medicine-men and horned shamans, freely mixing sexuality with the supernatural in their rites.
	www.guidancetochangeyourlife.com /underlyingthemyths.html (4929 words)

	Fag - Simple English Wikipedia
		Fag (a shortened form of faggot) is a slang term for homosexual man. Many gay (homosexual) men think this word is a very bad insult.
		A better word to use that is more respectful is gay.
		This is a disambiguation (listing) page — a page which lists other pages with similar names.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fag (133 words)

	Gay-MART - Queer Slang in the Gay 90's
		It filled a need for a gay people at that time because, in one word, it eloquently conveyed the idea that it was gay-bashers, not gays themselves, who had a problem.
		The term derives from the nineteenth-century slang word dike, which referred to male clothing, and when it was first used to refer to women, it carried a derogatory connotation of masculine appearance or behavior.
		In the seventeenth century, gay expanded from its earlier meaning of cheerful and came also to refer to men with a reputation for being playboys.
	www.gaymart.com /6fun/slang.html (2365 words)

	Transcending Gender: Maria Is "Queer-sexual"!
		And just the other day I was talking about my attraction to some gay boys and questioning if that could really be seen as being bisexual
		My primary attraction is to butches; and within that, most strongly to butches with a very male identity or energy (damn, that "energy" word again, but I have no other word for it), whether or not they classify themselves as tg/ts.
		Maria's post offers a good question, another look at the ways that sexual identification is changing, and an exercise in making language do yoga to accommodate increasingly complex ways of desiring and identifying.
	www.jenburke.com /2004/12/maria-is-queer-sexual.html (2365 words)

	Anal Sex Byproduct Named for Senator Santorum : LA IMC
		The santorum crusade began in April, 2003 when the Pennsylvanian senator told reporters from the Associated Press that he hoped the United States Supreme Court would uphold anti-gay sodomy laws and compared consensual gay sex to incest, bigamy, adultery, and "man-on-dog" sex.
		To help popularize the new word, the columnist has launched a website, http://www.spreadingsantorum.com, which includes a comprehensive selection of santorum-related letters, songs, merchandise, pictures, fun facts and recipes.
		Although Senator Santorum is generally despised by Savage's readership, a few fans have challenged the fairness of forever linking him (and, by proxy, his family or anyone unlucky enough to share his name) to the previously anonymous "frothy mixture." But Savage is unapologetic.
	la.indymedia.org /news/2003/12/97071.php (688 words)

	Boston.com / Your Life / Relationships / Gay Times
		There is no good gay equivalent for the word "spouse." The word "lover" sounds too unseemly, and "boyfriend" should be restricted to the halls of DeGrassi Junior High.
		And because Boston is destined to become the Las Vegas of gay weddings, the reminder of homosexual party superiority will be flashing in the face of these elected officials like one of Elton John's pinkie rings in the June sunshine as couples buzz in and out of the soon-to-be-built wedding chapels in Cambridge.
		It's time the gay friends got their slice of the quiche.
	www.boston.com /yourlife/relationships/articles/2003/12/14/gay_times (688 words)

	Gay
		The word gay has had a sexual meaning since at least the nineteenth century (and probably before) -- in Victorian England, female and male prostitutes were called "gay" (because they dressed gaily).
		In the United States, the term may have arisen from the hobo community: a young hobo, a "gay cat" or "geycat", often had to befriend an older more experienced hobo for education and survival.
		In some parts of the United States, this slang is so common among young boys that many who use it do not know what the word refers to.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/g/ga/gay.html (404 words)

	PEOPLE WITH A HISTORY: John Boswell Page
		Boswell was explicitly insistent that the word "gay" must be used - in a letter to his French publisher Gallimard, he argued that no other word in any other language would do.
		Dinshaw made clear here her discomfort with this approach: she argued that she was committed to a "constructionist view of history"; that Boswell's gay essence looked very like the "gay identity" of the post Stonewall period; and that Boswell overlooked difference between that identity and, for instance institutionalized pederasty.
		"The talk of the town--Beyond Stonewall: Gay struggles, 25 years on".
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/pwh/index-bos.html (404 words)

	Bathhouses again: bathhouses, prostitution, gay sex, homosexuality and the ex-gay movement, a journal / blog
		I don't buy that you really are trying to understand that not all gay people have a sexual addiction, go to bathhouses, etc. If it's easier for you to demonize out gays as a group by pretending they all have the sexuall addiction issues that you seem to have, then fine.
		Like I said earlier, if you believe being gay is a sin, then you are correct, it is a sin no matter if you are with one person or a hundred (although being with one is surely safer in terms of catching STD's if you are both mongamous).
		Being gay is not a question of who you have sex with, but rather who you initimately love.
	scatteredwords.com /archives/2004/10/bathhouses_agai.html (404 words)

	Gay's the Word - Index page.
		Gay's The Word is the largest and most comprehensive lesbian and gay bookshop in the UK.
		please either e-mail us at sales@gaystheword.co.uk, putting your topic of interest plus the word 'Review' in the subject header or, alternatively, give us a ring.
		Established in 1979 and located in the historic Bloomsbury district of London, we stock an enormous range of books from the profound to the frivolous; from the liberating to the indulgent.
	freespace.virgin.net /gays.theword (416 words)

	The President v Andrew Sullivan
		(But has the VP said one public word to Santorum in defense of his own daughter?) Or the knowledge that the President himself has plenty of gay friends.
		Let's hope Santorum's candor wakes more Americans up to the fact that Iraqis aren't the only ones at risk of losing their freedom to religious fundamentalism.
		He had all week to rethink Santorum's outrageous remarks, and repudiate them, and he didn't.
	www.andrewtobias.com /newcolumns/030427.html (976 words)

	historyoffear.tripod.com
		The inquisition against the gays was to makes straight people afraid of being wrongly ferreted out as gay for an increase in population and male insecurities and thus inadequacies.
		And as the main gay gene, responsible for 95% only passes maternally, AS DOES 2d one (all below,) and as the Rostler-Mundell study verifies, the first choice yields the production of gays in a ratio of 3 lesbians per gay male.
		A national survey has found the percentage of US women who say they recently had gay sex has increased 15-fold from 1988 to 1998, with rates among American men doubling over the same period."
	historyoffear.tripod.com (976 words)

	Michigan Directory
		Michigan students initially suspended for 10 days have been suspended for the rest of the year for spray painting the word "Love" over anti-gay graffiti.
		Gay NZ Four Michigan high school students who painted out homophobic graffiti and substituted the word "Love" have been suspended for a week.
		When someone painted "God hates fags" on the school rock at a Michigan high school, students who painted over it were charged with vandalism, suspended from class and barred from graduation.
	www.rainbowlaw.org /html/directoryMI.htm (462 words)

	IMHO
		I have also noticed a second group of people who find this ‘new’ usage of the word gay offensive as they had appropriated the word several years before.
		I hope I’m not hurting the feelings of the several gay friends I have but to be honest….
		In the last few years I have noticed a trend online to call things that are crap or you don’t like gay.
	www.vanschip.net /page/5 (1387 words)

	PEOPLE WITH A HISTORY: John Boswell Page
		Boswell was explicitly insistent that the word "gay" must be used - in a letter to his French publisher Gallimard, he argued that no other word in any other language would do.
		Gay people were indeed for Boswell "people with a history" [and here, Prof Dinshaw specifically referred to the "polemical title" of this web site People with a History http://pwh.base.org ]
		Many persons who might now be considered "gay" played prominent roles in the military, and some observers of the times argued that gay men would make ideal soldiers because they would wish to behave admirably while those they loved were present.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/pwh/index-bos.html (1387 words)

	m&r...FREE....
		was one of several proposed during debate on a Senate push to ban gay marriage in the constitution, to ban gay marriage in the constitution, proposed during debate on a Senate push to ban gay marriage in the constitution, Includes 4 extra yellow chips and 1 extra blue chip, 1980.
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	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /~luoma/peace/dist/edir/BbAaALDA2_ayEx.html (3559 words)

	Entertainment
		Set in Los Angeles, "The L Word" follows the lives of a group of primarily gay women and stars Jennifer Beals, Erin Daniels, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman, Mia Kirshner, Karina Lombard, Eric Mabius, Katherine Moennig and Pam Grier.
		"I can't imagine how a show about lesbians could be told by someone who is not a lesbian," says Ilene Chaiken, creator/executive producer/writer of "The L Word." "That doesn't mean that I haven't collaborated [on this show] with a lot of straight women, gay men, straight men.
		She pitched "The L Word" to Showtime just as "Queer as Folk" was hitting the air, and the network bought the series.
	www.planetout.com /entertainment/news/?sernum=625 (778 words)

	Gay
		'''Gay''', in addition to meaning happy, also means, simplistically, "preferring the same sex" in current usage, though to tie down the word to a specific cultural meaning might be to misrespresent a huge community of individuals who find themselves described by the word "gay".
		The gay and lesbian community represents a social component of the global community that is underrepresented in the area of civil rights.
		Gays and lesbians are very often portrayed negatively in television, films, and other media.
	q-basic.xodox.de /Gay (911 words)

	Beloved Reviews
		In her 1988 novel Beloved, Toni Morrison mints the word "rememory." Although Jonathan Demme's film does not make use of the word, its connections are there, reminding us that memories are what we're made of; more insistently, they are what we cannot...
		BELOVED Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah Richards, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Albert Hall, Irma P. Hall Director: Jonathan Demme Screenplay: Adam Brooks, Akosua Busia, Richard LaGravenese based on the novel by Toni...
		One of the rules by which I judge a screen adaptation i that the director make sure the movie stands on its own merits, and not the novels from which they are derived.
	www.killermovies.com /b/beloved/reviews (868 words)

	Hollywood’s Hottest Gay and Lesbian Celebrities Create Cultural Demand for Gaydar Expertise
		Since that single episode, GotGaydar.com has been flooded with hits to their site from fans of the show who are eager to see if their skills match up to the cast of characters on The L Word.
		Recently on the show, the friends were debating the sexuality of a chef, and using their gaydar to figure out if she was gay or straight.
		Part of the fun is figuring out if some of Hollywood’s favorite stars are secretly living their life as a heterosexual, when they’re really and truly gay.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/2/prweb102147.htm (517 words)

	In Vain?
		Comedy Central is running a Queer Eye parody called Straight Plan for the Gay Man. And the word metrosexual was recently deemed the most overused word in Lake Superior State University's annual "List of Words Banished From the Queen's English." The metrosexual is suffering from that most American of marketing traits: overexposure.
		One variant, the technosexual (defined as a straight man who is in touch with his feminine side but has a fondness for electronics), has its own Web site at www.technosexual.org.
		Last year, the metrosexual was the man of the moment.
	www.entrepreneur.com /mag/article/0,1539,316008,00.html (330 words)

	gay - Wiktionary
		Gay is preferred to homosexual by many gay people as their own term for themselves, claiming that homosexual is dated and evoking a time when homosexuality was considered a mental illness by the mental health community.
		Many gay people prefer not to be referred to by this term, feeling that being known as "gays" depersonalises them and reduces them to little more than their sexual orientation.
		Gay is almost exclusively used today in its homosexual and related senses, and, latterly, in the sense of boring, etc.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/gay (460 words)

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