What is the meaning of Gay?
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Gayo.
- Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself.
Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself.
Describing a homosexual man.
Tending to partner or mate with other individuals of the same sex.
Between two or more persons perceived to be of the same sex or gender as each other.
Not heterosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
Intended for gay people, especially gay men.
Homosexually in love with someone.
Infatuated with something, aligning with homosexual stereotypes.
In accordance with stereotypes of homosexual people:
- Being in accordance with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
- Exhibiting appearance or behavior that accords with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
Being in accordance with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
Exhibiting appearance or behavior that accords with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
A pejorative:
- Effeminate or flamboyant in behavior.
- Used to express dislike: lame, uncool, stupid, burdensome, contemptible, generally bad.
Effeminate or flamboyant in behavior.
Used to express dislike: lame, uncool, stupid, burdensome, contemptible, generally bad.
Festive, bright, or colourful.
Sexually promiscuous (of any gender), engaged in prostitution.
Upright or curved over the back.
Considerable, great, large in number, size, or degree. In this sense, also in the variant gey.
A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.
An ornament, a knick-knack.
To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.
↑ Alain Rey, ed., Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, vol. 2, s.v. “gai” (Paris: Le Robert, 2006).
↑ Marlies Philippa et al., eds., Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands, A-Z, s.v. “gauw” (Amsterdam UP, 3 Dec. 2009): .
↑ Louis Guinet, Les emprunts gallo-romans au germanique (Paris: Klincksieck, 1982).
↑ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*ganhu-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 167f.
↑ Anatoly Liberman (2012 February 1) “The deep roots of gaiety”, in OUPblog
↑ Blackmer, Corrine E (1995), "Gertrude Stein", in Claude J. Summers, The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, →ISBN
↑ Gertrude Stein (1922) “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene”, in Geography and Plays:
- They stayed there and were gay there, not very gay there, just gay there. They were both gay there, they were regularly working there both of them cultivating their voices there, they were both gay there. Georgine Skeene was gay there and she was regular, regular in being gay, regular in not being gay, regular in being a gay one who was one not being gay longer than was needed to be one being quite a gay one. They were both gay then there and both working there then.
↑ Robert K. Barnhart, ed., Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, s.v. “gay” (Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap, [2008], c1988), 425.
↑ Stephan Cohen, The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: ‘An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail’ (2007, →ISBN), quoting Sylvia Rivera: "'If you want Gay Power, then you're going to have to fight for it. And you're going to have to fight until you win.' For Rivera, 'gay' meant non-heteronormative (or 'queer' in today's lexicon), crossing sexual and gender boundaries to include lesbians, gay men, and transvestites, as well as the street youth who had participated in Stonewall."
↑ Rachel Kranz, Tim Cusick, Gay Rights (2014, →ISBN), page 3: For convenience, this volume uses gay, gay rights, and gay people as umbrella terms to include gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals. In some cases transgender people are also included in the term, although many transgender people do not consider themselves gay or lesbian, and at some points in gay history, transgender rights were considered part of the gay rights movement.
↑ Lacey Sloan, Nora Gustavsson, Violence and Social Injustice Against Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People (2014, →ISBN), page 116: Latina lesbians, Latino gays and bisexuals may experience a triple stigma and oppression when they are not fully accepted in the gay community because of their ethnicity[.]
↑ The American Heritage® Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English (1996), "gay"
↑ For example: David Kaufman, Untying the Knot: A Husband and Wife's Story of Coming Out Together (2012, →ISBN): Gays, and apparently lesbians, are discouraged from being openly bisexual. The cultural standard in the gay community is that you have to pick one sex and stick to it.
The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.
gay; gay man (Classifier: 個／个)
gay (homosexual person)
Alternative form of gaaye
gay: homosexual: being between two or more men.
Eclipsed form of kay.
- homosexual (involving or relating to same-sex relationships, especially between males)
homosexual (involving or relating to same-sex relationships, especially between males)
overly sentimental
gay; homosexual (person attracted to others of the same sex), especially a male homosexual
a person who lame, stupid or shows any other unpleasant characteristics
a homosexual person, gay person
Source: wiktionary.org
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