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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? '
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Quotes Containing gay:
Gay graffiti : ''The closet is an awful place to die .''
Gay graffiti : ''The closet is an awful place to die .''
Gay slogan: ''Homosexuality is not a four-letter-word .''
Gay slogan: ''Homosexuality is not a four-letter-word .''
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.'
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 .''
Carol Brady (Shelley Long) in A Very Brady Sequel (1996): ''I wish I could be gay again.''
Sandy (Teri Garr) and Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) in Tootsie (1982): - Sandy: ''Michael, are you gay?'' - Michael: ''In what sense?''
Gay joke: ''Turn over. I want to slip-into something comfortable.''
'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. ''
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?''
Libby Holden (Kathy Bates) in Primary Colors (1998): ''I am a gay lesbian woman! I do not mythologize the male sexual organ!''
Libby Holden (Kathy Bates) in Primary Colors (1998): ''I am a gay lesbian woman! I do not mythologize the male sexual organ!''
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.''
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 .''
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.'
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.''
'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)
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 .''
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?''
''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.''
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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