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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: babette, barfairy, gaydom, water chestnut, gay in the legs, gay-leria, French revolution, dangle queen, dizzy-queen, Dowager Queen, girl scout, glory hole sex, limp-wristed, bona omi, badido, abyss, advertising bar, brownie queen, bun woman, bust one's beads, chicken-little, chicken-with-a-basket, 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 liberation, gay rights, gay milk bar, GHM, golden shower queen, goober smoocher, GWM, hitchpussy, lesbian feminist, lover under the lap, kissing fish, lacy, LBGT, ILGA, ill-piece, drive-in levis, crevice courier, Cuban pumps, fruit cup, Gabe Asher, Galilee stompers, fag hots, cook book, closet name, chicken-house, butt book, campfire girl, bull party, buller, bum boys, breeder fish, aggie, angel food, bod-comic, bondage queen, bardajes, bouquet of pansies, beefcake books, toilet water, tonsila, tranny fucker, tour time, tat, tattoo boy, rubber queen, sausage jockey, sea food, punkie, Queen of Scotch, pink triangle, princepessa, queen's gilded cage, rattle the (giddy) beads, read the beads, Norman Normal, old crank case, Miss Thing, oyster stew, pansyland, turn the corner, wear giddy beads, yeomanette, pink panther gay libber, Stonewall Uprising, The, gay lib, gay house, gaylese, Gail, fag-lang, faglish, 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, twinkboner, untried, upside-down cake, TV style, woof up on it, wrecking company, widowed aunt, working my last gay nerve, water lilies, wash the egg out, waiter, waiteress, wall job, wax fruit, Vagina Littlefinger, wear a cut-glass veil, whomp down on it, whomp it up, yummy down on it, yummy it down, yummy up on it, Yankees yawn, yeastful buns a plenty, token-queer, Tommy Dodd, tondalayo, torch job, Tosos, token chicken, toss freaks, toss him off, track two, touche pipi, trick-cyclist, trans-fag, TransLesBiGay, tranz-fag, trapper, traveler's aid, trolling ground, trolling the toilet, true confession, tube queen, triple treat queen, Trojan horse, tea engagement, telefag, tender talent, tenderfoot, thirty-forty-dead, three-letter man, timesqueer, Tina Tuna, tinkler-belle, tiara, tisket a-tasket, tit queen, titty-freak, squelching, sniff queen, stuff a turkey, soup, soupy, tattoo queen, tat queen, talk turkey, tar brush, tasty-cover(s), sunkist queen, swing on it, take somebody on, take the meat out, Sally, same sex love, rubber necking, sausage party, rumpy, sad-ass, saddle it, six à neuf, sixty-nine queen, skillful skull, Roman historian, ring around the rosey, RM, road game, rough-trade, royal jelly, reamo ream, reary, right-handed, queen bees, Queen Mary, Queen of Hearts, quickie station, poovy, possesh, pretender to the throne, poofy, Queen of Sheba, Queen of Spades, queen on a broomstick, protein queen, Paris brothers, pasture woman, negrera, paint the bucket, peasants, peculator pecker, picnic lunch, pig room, pimple joint, pimple palace, midnight queen, missionary work, Morticia, mustache ride, loose in his loafers, lose one's gender, man pussy, mamacita, broken-wrist, buccaneer, brown Betty, butcher boy, butt pussy, butch as Kong, butch cut, butch in the streets, bush bunny, bucket head, chicken in the basket, chicken butcher, chicken-meter, chicken-of-the-sea, chicken pox, chicken snatchitori, 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, 50:50, 59, abdicate, Abigail, baker's closed, baker's dozen, ball-bearing stewardess, ballad bar, bambi, bambi effect, Baby Crockett, ayuga, ass thrasher, faggot worker, drop one's cookies, fairy godmother, fast food sex, fay, felch queen, fruit-picker, funk-a-thon, funny that way, he's, fuck passage, gay it up, gay for pay, gay ghetto, gape, gay chicken, Cubans, cucumber queen, Cruella, couple friend, dethroned, curry queen, Dahlia dyke, Daisy Dumpling, drape queen, drop the plate, Dutch dumplings, entertaining royalty, European accentuation, dick-drinker, dinge-rim queen, DINKS, discover one's gender, ditsoon, diving in the sky, gay wench, gayola, gaybee boom, glass asshole, GLB, gonorita, gobette, god-forbid, ginny woman, hint of mint, hint of lavender, hip-hitter, hettie, have a dash of lavender, have some cream sauce, goop-gobbler, icing expert, gutter limits, ice-cube sandwich, homophobic, in-sisters, iron jaws, jaihouse turnout, kabuki, King Lear, learn a new way, lay it out, lanoola, knitting, knitting needle, lilies of the valley, lollipop stop, Lincoln tunnel, line-up, lipstick, lipstick on a dipstick, decoy(er), fairy hawk, bait, boot slave, come-on boy, gaydar, gaying instrument, gaying it, gay youthism, let one's hair down, KY cow house, fag magnet, gay basher, gay girl, Friend of Dorothy, fruit, cupcake, dainties, crew-cut queen, crunt, crotch voyeur, doll-tits, 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, benzadrina, band-member, basher, accordion, all butched up, nudger, mixed fruits and vegetables, queen's Christmas, Purple Hand, The, sea-fairy, zoo queen, vegetable, gay, homophobia, bird cage, birdcage, breeder, camp culture, wheelchair set, simulsex, camp, jail bait, gay gene, jailhouse pussy, joto, belly-fucker, south-of-the-border tart, Tijuana queen, teahouse, troll, tuna, trading post, mack, madge, old hen, old queen, vampire, vampire run, vegetarian, vanilla sex, Vaseline Villa, vault, Virginia, view master, view queen, twink, urinal sniffer, usurper, vacuum cleaner, twinkie, twinky, two snaps up, undercover man, turnover, turn over, turn someone out, whore you?, whorella, wax museum, wall queen, washroom faggot, watchtower, wave, wreck, wreck somebody's beads, wrecked, Wilde Oscar, wear one's badge, Xerox queen, working girl, yodel in the canyon (of love), yodel up in the canyon (of love), yodeling in the canyon (of love), yodeling in the gully, yummies, outed, on the bash, oncer, oscarize, oscarizing, pearl, pine, peephole squad, plank, play checkers, play chess, play chipmunk, play the organ, playing canasta, make a milk run, make a pit stop, make the blind see, make the milk run, mackin', man-hole, meatrack, manhole, moll house, molly house, molly shop, milky way, the, Miss Tijuana, old faceful, Nanette, nearsighted, pushing box, privy queen, props, prune person, poon, perch, pichon, pricknic, pricnic, pop a cherry, Ramona Rottencrotch, ranchera, queen's tanks, right hip pocket, rimadonna, Rimsky, rich cream sauce, ride the deck, rub bellies, rub freak, queerie, round pussy, road queen, roarer, queenie, trick day, trick night, traveling salesman, tumble a fruit, touch-me-not garden, team player, tea room trade, tea towel holder, tent, thirty-day boy, tell the folks, tailgator, tearoom trade, titty, toe-jam queen, toe queen, Toilet Tessie, tired-old queen, tired-old thing, throne queen, three-bee, spider lady, spit-fuck, square, suckstress, stag hag, stand up job, stool pigeon, take the sheet, taco queen, swishy, super J, tamale-pie eater, shrimp job, shrimp queen, shrimper, sing the sailor songbook, sissies, sissified, sissyish, Skinny rubbing, slip into, smearing the queer, size queen, skeet shooting, ski up and down Happy Valley, senoreater, sew, sexteen, sexteenager, shell queen, sailor's cup of tea, scarf (up), scatophiliac, bed breath, bean juice, bat-cave, baths, the, beach bitch, bargain basement, birdcage cleaner, birdie, bitch's blind, bitched up, Betty Bouffant, benny, benrus queen, big dick queen, 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, all man, all bitched up, anal jabber, anal stormtrooper, Andrew phenomenon, aspro, ass jabber, allorgasmia, angel with a dirty face, acorn-picker, actress, actress starlette, advertising pilgrim, abort, absolute code, 175er, 501s, basket days, basket-watcher, basketeer, Bastille, Barbarella, bambi sex, 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, 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, Juanita, jungle meat, lace, lace curtains, kitchen queen, lavender, left hip pocket, little brother, look bar, lily-livered, limp-wrist, jock and boxer, jocker, Kinsey One, Kinsey Six, jawfest, jean queen, INAH, iron closet, homosocial, humpy, Hundred-And-Seventy-Fiver, hunky, ice queen, icing queen, impale, gay life, gaycat, gloryhole, glory hole, gooser, gorilla salad, goy toy, Grand Canyon, he-male, good buddy, gunch, gunsel, high Russian, high Texan, hairy Mary, hemale, herosexual, hips, lips and armpits, homoerotophobia, gay bashing, gay deceivers, French woman, fudy, fugitive from a chain gang, funch, futy, fruity, fart slime, gaelic, drop one's hairpins, drop ones load, fag factory, fag hag, felching, daisy duck, FFA, filly, French-fried ice cream, forty-niner, flag, flame, flinking, flip side, floater, flophouse, floral arrangement, fly-trap, Dorothy's friend, double-gaited, doul, dinner beneath the bridge, dioning, dig a ditch, Dilly, dilly dude, dinge queen, explore the beads, eyeball the back of the closet door, FACE CREAM, effeminative, effie, egg McMuff, egg McMuffin, draw the drapes, drop one's beads, dragon lady, drama queen, dog food, closeted, crushed fruit, Crisco cottage, crotch-peeper, crack run, cracking, crapper dick, dandy, deliver a baby, dew, dew on the lily, dangler, dash, daub of the brush, dazzle the audience, deadeye dick, hypothalamus, homophile, gray lady, fish, bottom, bean queen, queer, queen, trade, cunt, homo-, hidden queen, geriatric set, Geritol set, aunt, auntie, bat, closet queen, chicken, charactronym, old girl, old thing, oyster, out, packet, playing hoopsnake, poke, penile colony, Miss Morales, money trick, marble palace, meat case, Mexicali Rose, privates, quail, pitch, poofter, rosebud, round-mouth, rubber, rub-belly, rancid flower, toss the salad, toss a salad, turn one out, turn out, tearoom, tea room, shrimp, snapping turtle, simulsexual, T-room, tail bone, soiled senior citizen, Spanish Rose, wings, wand, uranian, uranist, 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, aging actress, Adam, ass man, angel, belly-queen, bender, beach whale, beads, geycat, gaychick, homogenic, greenhouse, grimm's fairy, groceries, grandma, he-man, hose, hot enchilada, hot tamale, huffle, isosexual, jewelry showcase, lunch, lunch box, lunch-meat, lunchbox, luncheonette, load, left-handed, laundry, kitchen cleaner, daisy chain, den (of sin), cunnilinguate, dish, four-letter word, freejack, flytrap, fellate, fem, femme, fallen star, falsies, gander, 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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