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gay:
1. A homosexual , a person whose affectional and sexual-orientation is towards members of the same sex . Although the word applies to both women and men (the differentiation is sometimes reinforced: gay man , lesbian woman), there is a sense that gay has been appropriated by men; many female homosexuals prefer to be known as lesbians ((From Lesbos; there is no corresponding eponym for a gay male.) 2. The state of being homosexual ; homosexuality .
3. Homosexual; homoerotic ; pertaining to homosexual culture and homosexual people.
Etymology: In 13 th century France, gai / gahi refered to the cult of courtly love , a euphemism of the time for same-sex love , and gai / gaiol was a homosexual lover . In 17 th England, gay expanded from its earlier meaning of cheerful to include men with a reputation for promiscuity. Gay Lothario appeared the English in 1703. In the 18 th century the word gay was often allied to a women or girls to mean promiscuos or prostitutes; to be gay / gay-in-the-legs (groin or arse) meant to be promiscuous ; gaying-it meant to copulate ; a gaying-instrument was a penis , a gay-house was a brothel . In the 1890s, gay meant carefree, informal; to get gay meant to take (hetero)sexual liberties unimaginable just a decade earlier. The adoption of that word by homosexuals for self description originated during WWII, possibly by the adaptation of gey cat or gay cat , a prison and hobo slang term in the 1930s for a male homosexual , especially the homosexual companion of an older tramp . From Lawrence Paros in The Erotic Tongue (1984): ' Gay did not become associated with simulsex (early-20 th C .) activity until the early part of the twentieth century, and then it was primarily underground. It didn't go-public with this meaning until 1925, with the gay boy in Australia, and 1935 in the United States in the film Bringing Up Baby , in which Cary Grant donned a dress and commented how he had gone gay. Between 1955 and 1960, it captured everyone's fancy , culminating in the joyous outburst of the seventies .' Cary Grant, dressed in Katherine Hepburn's pink negligé, is aked by the aunt why is he so dressed; he jumps high up and shouts: ' Because I suddenly went gay! '
Quotes:
(1) C . Isherwood: ' Damned silly... A term which made us into frivolous idiots, sort of bliss-ninnies .'
(2) Vladimir Ivanoff (Robin Williams) a recent Russian immigrant to the US confronts a man who has been following him on the streets of New York in Moscow on the Hudson (1984):-- Vlad: ' FBI? '-- Man: ' FBI? No .'-- Vlad: ' KGB? '-- Man: ' KGB? No... G-A-Y .'-- Vlad: 'G?...A?...Y?... No! '
(3) Rachel (Liza D'Agostino) and Loretta (Nancy Allison Wolfe) in Bar Girls (1994):-- Rachel: ' Do you think I'm gay? '-- Loretta: ' What do you mean? '-- Rachel: ' Well, how do you know for sure? '-- Loretta: ' You just know that's all. It's like being French . Either you are or you're not .'
(4) Pino (Anthony de Sando) and a lesbian in Kiss Me Guido (1998):-- Pino: ' You're a lesbian? Hey, I'm sorry. You like girls? That's cool , me too, but you have no desire to do-it with a guy? '-- Lesbian: ' Do you? '-- Pino: ' That's disgusting! '-- Lesbian: ' Exactly .'
(5) Murray (Donald Faison) to Cher Hamilton (Alicia Silverstone) about her friend in Clueless (1995): ' Your man Christian is a cake-boy. (...) He's a disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand ticket-holder friend of Dorothy. Know what I'm saying? '
See Also: barfairy, gaydom, water chestnut, gay in the legs, gay-leria, French revolution, dangle queen, dizzy-queen, Dowager Queen, limp-wristed, bona omi, babette, bun woman, chicken-little, commercial queer, confirmed bachelor, vanilla queen, valley of tears, Nora Naugahide, poodle queen, pissy queen, puppy flesh, sister act, snow queen, suck-queen, tavern maid, tea dance, tourist, gay rights, gay liberation, fruit cup, Gabe Asher, Galilee stompers, fag hots, drive-in levis, crevice courier, Cuban pumps, gay milk bar, GHM, golden shower queen, goober smoocher, GWM, hitchpussy, lover under the lap, lacy, LBGT, lesbian feminist, ILGA, ill-piece, kissing fish, cook book, closet name, chicken-house, butt book, campfire girl, breeder fish, bull party, buller, bum boys, aggie, angel food, bod-comic, bondage queen, bardajes, bouquet of pansies, beefcake books, tour time, tranny fucker, tonsila, turn the corner, toilet water, tat, tattoo boy, sausage jockey, sea food, princepessa, punkie, Queen of Scotch, queen's gilded cage, rattle the (giddy) beads, read the beads, rubber queen, Norman Normal, old crank case, Miss Thing, pansyland, oyster stew, pink triangle, wear giddy beads, yeomanette, pink panther gay libber, Stonewall Uprising, The, gay house, gay lib, Gail, fag-lang, faglish, gaylese, gay slang, queen's vernacular, gay lingo, gaytalk, gay woman, fag bashing, fag busting, French embassy, bird circuit, Brown family, token-fag queers, very gay, Venetian blinds, Venus with a penis, Veronica, Viking queen, village people, virgin queen, waiter, waiteress, wall job, Vagina Littlefinger, twinkboner, untried, upside-down cake, yummy down on it, yummy it down, yummy up on it, working my last gay nerve, woof up on it, wrecking company, wax fruit, water lilies, wash the egg out, whomp down on it, whomp it up, wear a cut-glass veil, widowed aunt, Yankees yawn, yeastful buns a plenty, token-queer, Tommy Dodd, tondalayo, token chicken, tisket a-tasket, tit queen, timesqueer, Tina Tuna, tinkler-belle, titty-freak, tender talent, tenderfoot, telefag, thirty-forty-dead, three-letter man, tiara, TV style, trick-cyclist, triple treat queen, Trojan horse, trolling ground, trolling the toilet, true confession, tube queen, torch job, Tosos, toss freaks, toss him off, trans-fag, TransLesBiGay, tranz-fag, trapper, traveler's aid, touche pipi, track two, squelching, sunkist queen, swing on it, tattoo queen, tat queen, tea engagement, stuff a turkey, take somebody on, take the meat out, talk turkey, tar brush, tasty-cover(s), sausage party, Sally, same sex love, six à neuf, sixty-nine queen, skillful skull, sniff queen, soup, soupy, Queen of Sheba, Queen of Spades, queen on a broomstick, queen bees, Queen Mary, Queen of Hearts, poovy, protein queen, poofy, possesh, pretender to the throne, rumpy, sad-ass, saddle it, rubber necking, Roman historian, rough-trade, royal jelly, reamo ream, reary, quickie station, right-handed, ring around the rosey, RM, road game, paint the bucket, picnic lunch, pig room, pimple joint, pimple palace, peasants, peculator pecker, Paris brothers, pasture woman, negrera, Morticia, mustache ride, loose in his loafers, lose one's gender, mamacita, man pussy, midnight queen, missionary work, broken-wrist, brownie queen, buccaneer, brown Betty, butcher boy, butt pussy, bucket head, bust one's beads, butch as Kong, butch cut, butch in the streets, bush bunny, chicken in the basket, chicken butcher, chicken-meter, chicken-of-the-sea, chicken pox, chicken snatchitori, chicken-with-a-basket, chocolate bunny, chocolate lover, career boy, casket freak, chatty cathy, cherry top, Chicago Society for Human Rights, Clarence Coon, club date, coal burner, church member, clean kitchen, cosmetic intuition, cottager, coffin queen, cohabitation, Colwyn Bay, big woman, biker, bitch's Christmas, bent-wrist, Betty shits her dress, Betty shitting her shoes, Beulah-lover, bibbing, beany, beach blanket, boy pussy, boy's club, breakthrough, boss-queen, bottle of scent, bodyguard, bog queen, bold, blackjack, bitches' Christmas, black snake, blessing, BLG, alley queen, antiman, ask for the ring, Agnes, ahall, amyl queen, advertising bar, abyss, 50:50, 59, abdicate, Abigail, Baby Crockett, ayuga, ass thrasher, badido, baker's closed, baker's dozen, ball-bearing stewardess, ballad bar, bambi, bambi effect, faggot worker, fairy godmother, fast food sex, fay, felch queen, funk-a-thon, funny that way, he's, fruit-picker, fuck passage, gay it up, gay ghetto, gape, gay chicken, gay for pay, Cubans, cucumber queen, Cruella, couple friend, curry queen, Dahlia dyke, Daisy Dumpling, dick-drinker, drop one's cookies, drape queen, drop the plate, Dutch dumplings, entertaining royalty, European accentuation, ditsoon, diving in the sky, dinge-rim queen, DINKS, dethroned, discover one's gender, gaybee boom, gay wench, gayola, glory hole sex, ginny woman, girl scout, glass asshole, GLB, gonorita, gobette, god-forbid, goop-gobbler, homophobic, hettie, hint of mint, hint of lavender, hip-hitter, have a dash of lavender, have some cream sauce, kabuki, King Lear, jaihouse turnout, icing expert, in-sisters, iron jaws, gutter limits, ice-cube sandwich, learn a new way, lay it out, lanoola, knitting, knitting needle, Lincoln tunnel, line-up, lipstick, lipstick on a dipstick, lilies of the valley, lollipop stop, decoy(er), fairy hawk, bait, boot slave, come-on boy, gaydar, gaying instrument, gaying it, gay youthism, KY cow house, let one's hair down, fag magnet, gay basher, gay girl, Friend of Dorothy, fruit, dainties, crew-cut queen, crunt, cupcake, don't drop the soap!, cottaging, Castro clone, camp it up, bumping pussies, bum chums, break somebody in, bring out (of the closet), bat boy, basher, mixed fruits and vegetables, nudger, Purple Hand, The, queen's Christmas, sea-fairy, zoo queen, vegetable, gay, homophobia, breeder, camp culture, wheelchair set, simulsex, camp, jail bait, gay gene, jailhouse pussy, joto, madge, belly-fucker, bird cage, birdcage, south-of-the-border tart, troll, tuna, Tijuana queen, teahouse, old hen, old queen, vampire, trading post, urinal sniffer, usurper, vacuum cleaner, vanilla sex, Vaseline Villa, vault, twinkie, twinky, two snaps up, undercover man, vampire run, vegetarian, view master, view queen, wall queen, Virginia, Wilde Oscar, whore you?, whorella, washroom faggot, watchtower, wave, wax museum, wear one's badge, yodel in the canyon (of love), yodel up in the canyon (of love), yodeling in the canyon (of love), yodeling in the gully, yummies, Xerox queen, working girl, wreck, wreck somebody's beads, wrecked, outed, pearl, peephole squad, perch, pichon, pine, plank, play checkers, play chess, play chipmunk, play the organ, playing canasta, old faceful, on the bash, oncer, oscarize, oscarizing, Nanette, nearsighted, mackin', Miss Tijuana, moll house, molly house, molly shop, milky way, the, meatrack, manhole, man-hole, queenie, queen's tanks, pushing box, pricknic, pricnic, poon, prune person, privy queen, props, pop a cherry, road queen, roarer, right hip pocket, rimadonna, Rimsky, Ramona Rottencrotch, ranchera, rich cream sauce, ride the deck, rub bellies, queerie, round pussy, rub freak, sailor's cup of tea, team player, tea room trade, tea towel holder, tent, thirty-day boy, throne queen, three-bee, tell the folks, toe-jam queen, toe queen, Toilet Tessie, tired-old queen, tired-old thing, titty, turn over, turn someone out, twink, turnover, trick day, trick night, tumble a fruit, traveling salesman, tearoom trade, touch-me-not garden, Skinny rubbing, slip into, smearing the queer, size queen, skeet shooting, ski up and down Happy Valley, shrimp job, shrimp queen, shrimper, sing the sailor songbook, sissies, sissified, sissyish, scarf (up), scatophiliac, senoreater, sew, sexteen, sexteenager, shell queen, tamale-pie eater, take the sheet, tailgator, swishy, taco queen, super J, suckstress, stag hag, stand up job, stool pigeon, spider lady, spit-fuck, square, birdcage cleaner, birdie, bitch's blind, bitched up, big dick queen, benzadrina, Betty Bouffant, benny, benrus queen, bed breath, bean juice, bat-cave, baths, the, beach bitch, bargain basement, bracelet, bowl of wax fruit, bottom man, boretto man, bone queen, bottle opener, blow hole, blown all over the map, blue handkerchief, black widow, biting daddy, bleeding dirt, bonbon, basket days, basket-watcher, basketeer, Bastille, bambi sex, band-member, Barbarella, bake potatoes, bagger double entry, baggette, ballroom, bakery goods, ass master, ass-peddler, asspro, ass queen, 49, back-door bandit, backs against the wall!, backs to the wall chaps!, backside artist, abort, absolute code, 175er, 501s, accordion, acorn-picker, actress, actress starlette, advertising pilgrim, anal jabber, anal stormtrooper, Andrew phenomenon, all bitched up, all butched up, all man, aspro, ass jabber, allorgasmia, angel with a dirty face, butchered chicken, candy-maker, canned fruit, butt slammer, butter, bake and baste, buttfuck buddy, COD, cake-eater, built like a brick shithouse, bungie-boy, burglar, bush patrol, butched up, brick shithouse, bronk, brother, brought out, brown artist, bronc, brown hatter, Browning family, browning queen, Browning sisters, bruise the fruit, buff-light, buffle, buffy, bucket boy, buckaruby, Carmen Miranda, CFD, chesty, cheap thing, cherry boy, cherry flip, chubby chaser, chinch pad, chipmunk, chicken plucker, chicken neck, chicken crotchetory, countess, controsexual, come-queen, cometosis, commoner, come-freak, clean up, clone, Cinderella, cinnamon stick, clamp it silly, clean it up, make a milk run, make a pit stop, make the blind see, make the milk run, look bar, lily-livered, limp-wrist, little brother, kitchen queen, lace, lace curtains, left hip pocket, lavender, Juanita, jungle meat, Kinsey One, Kinsey Six, jock and boxer, jocker, jawfest, jean queen, ice queen, humpy, Hundred-And-Seventy-Fiver, hunky, INAH, iron closet, icing queen, impale, gaycat, gooser, gorilla salad, goy toy, Grand Canyon, glory hole, gloryhole, he-male, hairy Mary, hemale, herosexual, good buddy, gunch, gunsel, hips, lips and armpits, high Russian, high Texan, homosocial, homoerotophobia, gay deceivers, gay bashing, gay life, fruity, fudy, fugitive from a chain gang, funch, futy, gaelic, fart slime, daisy duck, fag factory, fag hag, felching, French-fried ice cream, French woman, FFA, filly, forty-niner, flag, flame, flinking, flip side, floater, flophouse, floral arrangement, fly-trap, Dorothy's friend, double-gaited, doul, dog food, doll-tits, dew, dew on the lily, dinner beneath the bridge, dioning, explore the beads, eyeball the back of the closet door, FACE CREAM, effeminative, effie, egg McMuff, egg McMuffin, draw the drapes, dragon lady, drama queen, drop one's hairpins, drop ones load, drop one's beads, closeted, crushed fruit, Crisco cottage, crotch-peeper, crotch voyeur, crack run, cracking, crapper dick, dangler, dash, daub of the brush, dazzle the audience, deadeye dick, deliver a baby, dandy, dig a ditch, Dilly, dilly dude, dinge queen, hypothalamus, homophile, gray lady, fish, bottom, bean queen, queen, queer, trade, old girl, old thing, aunt, auntie, closet queen, chicken, charactronym, homo-, hidden queen, geriatric set, Geritol set, geycat, gaychick, grandma, homogenic, hose, hot enchilada, hot tamale, huffle, greenhouse, grimm's fairy, groceries, he-man, isosexual, jewelry showcase, kitchen cleaner, left-handed, laundry, load, lunch, lunch box, lunch-meat, lunchbox, luncheonette, mack, four-letter word, freejack, flytrap, fellate, fem, femme, fallen star, falsies, gander, den (of sin), daisy chain, cunnilinguate, dish, catch, Carmen(cita), chicken hawk, chin-strap, closet queer, cocksman, clubhouse, closet, the, cornhole palace, cottage, bucket, buck, browning, buggerantoes, bumper-to-bumper, bronco, butcher, butch it up, bury the wick, buddy, buff-boy, Camille, canned goods, canasta, asshole buddies, assume the position, baby-maker, ass man, angel, aging actress, Adam, belly-queen, bender, beach whale, beads, oyster, packet, penile colony, playing hoopsnake, poke, pitch, out, marble palace, meat case, Mexicali Rose, Miss Morales, money trick, quail, privates, poofter, rosebud, rub-belly, round-mouth, rubber, rancid flower, toss the salad, toss a salad, turn one out, turn out, tearoom, soiled senior citizen, tail bone, T-room, tea room, shrimp, snapping turtle, Spanish Rose, simulsexual, wings, wand, uranian, uranist, lesbian,
Quotes Containing gay:
Jodie Dallas (Billy Crystal) and Jessica Gatling Tate (Katherine Helmond) confusing Plato (the Greek philosopher) with Pluto (thecartoon dog) in the TV series Soap (1977): - Jodie: ''Plato was gay .'' - Jessica: ''Mickey Mouse''s dog was gay?!'' - Jodie: ''Goofy was his lover .''
Meg (Mary Kay Place) to Sarah (Glenn Close) on the subject of dating in The Big Chill (1983):'They're either married or gay . And if they're not gay , they've just broken up with the most wonderful woman in the world or they've just broken up with a bitch who looks just like me. They're in transition from a monogamous relationship and they need more space or they're tired of space but they just can't commit or they want to commit but they're afraid to get close. They want to get close, you don't want to get near them.'
Gay slogan: ''Homosexuality is not a four-letter-word .''
About Robert being gay in The Next Best Thing (2000): ''He definitely fals into the what-a-waste category.''
Emily (Joan Cusack) in In & Out (1997): ''Is everybody gay? Is this a Twilight Zone?''
Gay joke: ''Turn over. I want to slip-into something comfortable.''
Hortense (Alice Brady) about men in The Gay Divorcee (1934): ''There''s nothing different about any of them except their neckties.''
Hortense (Alice Brady) about men in The Gay Divorcee (1934): ''There''s nothing different about any of them except their neckties.''
Gay graffiti : ''The closet is an awful place to die .''
Gay graffiti : ''The closet is an awful place to die .''
'I wish I could be gay again.' Carol Brady (Shelley Long) in A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
Gay Langland (Clark Gable) to Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe) in The Misfits (1961): ''Nothing can live unless something dies. ''
Gay slogan: ''Homosexuality is not a four-letter-word .''
Carol Brady (Shelley Long) in A Very Brady Sequel (1996): ''I wish I could be gay again.''
Libby Holden (Kathy Bates) in Primary Colors (1998): ''I am a gay lesbian woman! I do not mythologize the male sexual organ!''
'You know , as the Alcalde's wife , I must play many, many roles, but the people only see the part I play in public. Only a few select friends know my private-parts .' Florinda (Brenda Vaccaro) to Don Diego Vega (George Hamilton) in Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)
'They say the navy makes men. Well, I'm living proof they made me.' Ramon Vega (George Hamilton), who has now changed his name to Bunny Wigglesworth, to his brother Diego (George Hamilton) in Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)
Gay Langland (Clark Gable) to Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe) in The Misfits (1961): ''We all have to go some time, reason or no reason. Dying is as natural as living. A man who''s afraid to die is afraid to live.''
Franky/Francesca (Ione Skye) to her gay cousin who lied to his father about having a girlfriend in Dream for an Insomniac (1999): ''Is it a little stuffy in that closet there, Roberto?''
Franky/Francesca (Ione Skye) to her gay cousin who lied to his father about having a girlfriend in Dream for an Insomniac (1999): ''Is it a little stuffy in that closet there, Roberto?''
George Bianco (Leo Rossi) to his gay friend Sonny Rivers (Eric Idle) who is off to procreate with Susan in order to keep an inheritance of $200,000,000 in Too Much Sun (1991): - George: ''At least be a man!'' - Sonny: ''What does that mean?'' - George: ''Make sure you''re on top .''
''I never knew a woman to look better in the morning than she does at night.'' Gay Langland (Clark Gable) to Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe) in The Misfits (1961)
Two gay males, Terry and Warren (Anthony Barrile) in Kiss me Guido (1998): - Terry: ''Me, I''m versatile . I like to be a top or a bottom .'' - Warren: ''Oh, please, Terry. You have bottom stamped on your forehead.''
Libby Holden (Kathy Bates) in Primary Colors (1998): ''I am a gay lesbian woman! I do not mythologize the male sexual organ!''
Rachel (Liza D''Agostino) and Loretta (Nancy Allison Wolfe) in Bar Girls (1994): - Rachel: ''Do you think I''m gay?'' - Loretta: ''What do you mean?'' - Rachel: ''Well, how do you know for sure?'' - Loretta: ''You just know that''s all. It''s like being French . Either you are or you''re not.''
Two gay males, Terry (Craig Chester) and Warren (Anthony Barrile), in Kiss me Guido (1998): - Terry: ''Me, I''m versatile . I like to be a top or a bottom .'' - Warren: ''Oh, please, Terry. You have bottom stamped on your forehead.''
Florinda (Brenda Vaccaro) to Don Diego Vega (George Hamilton) in Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981): ''You know , as the Alcalde''s wife , I must play many, many roles, but the people only see the part I play in public. Only a few select friends know my private-parts .''
Two gay males, Terry (Craig Chester) and Warren (Anthony Barrile), in Kiss me Guido (1998): - Terry: 'Me, I'm versatile . I like to be a top or a bottom .' - Warren: 'Oh, please, Terry. You have bottom stamped on your forehead.'
Sandy (Teri Garr) and Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) in Tootsie (1982): - Sandy: ''Michael, are you gay?'' - Michael: ''In what sense?''
Rachel (Liza D''Agostino) and Loretta (Nancy Allison Wolfe) in Bar Girls (1994): - Rachel: ''Do you think I''m gay?'' - Loretta: ''What do you mean?'' - Rachel: ''Well, how do you know for sure?'' - Loretta: ''You just know that''s all. It''s like being French . Either you are or you''re not.''
Drag queens Noxema/Zima Jackson/Auntie Noxy (Wesley Snipes) and Chichi Rodriquez (John Leguizamo) in To Wong Foo. Thanks for Everything. Julie Newmar (1995): - Noxema: ''Darling, if you''re going to become a drag-queen , you''re gonna have to learn these things. '' - Chichi: ''What do you mean ''a drag queen''? I am a drag queen!'' - Noxema: ''Oh, child, no , no , no . You''re simply a boy in a dress. When a straight man puts a dress and gets his sexual kick he is a transvestite ; when a man is a woman trapped in a man''s body and has the little operation he is a transsexual ; (...) when a gay man has way too much fashion sense for one gender he is a drag-queen . (...) And when a light little Latin boy puts on a dress he is simply a boy in a dress.'' In the end , they agree to give Chichi the temporary title of ''drag princess .''
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