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gay
adjective- homosexual US, 1933
- Not all who call their flats in Greenwich Village “studios” are queer. Not all New York’s queer (or, as they say it, “gay”) people live in Greenwich Village. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 65, 1948
- The only word used by homosexuals with reference to themselves, their friends, their haunts, etc. — Anon., The Gay Girl’s Guide, p. 10, 1949
- Anyway, what’s so special about being gay except a lot of heartaches and headaches? Heteros don’t brag about the novels and paintings they’ve produced because they go to bed with the opposite sex. — One: The Homosexual Magazine, p. 19, February 1953
- Now you see, I always thought that being gay was about the most iconoclastic, minority thing there was. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 213, 1954
- “What does the word ‘gay’ mean to you?” asked Flavey. Her head still averted, she said, “Homosexual.” — San Francisco Examiner, 21 December 1954
- [T]ook pride in being a homosexual by feeling intellectually and esthetically superior to those (especially women) who weren’t gay. — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 39, 1957
- Marlon Brando nearly fractured the skull of a gay lad who made a pass at him the other dark night. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 128, 9 June 1957: “Confidential Memo”
- Back in the days when I was first in the navy, I didn’t know a gay guy from a straight guy. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 210, 1958
- They wanted to know if I knew what “gay” meant. I said sure – happy, fun, jolly. — Ann Aldrich (Marijane Meaker), We Too Must Love, 1958
- [T]he champ would throw the next fight in a gay or effeminate manner[.] — Terry Southern, The Magic Christian, p. 59, 1959
- Eve was so beautiful and open to love – but she chose to seek sat-isfaction inside her own sex. — Joan Ellis, Gay Girl, 1962
- The theater is one of the gayest in New York. Late at night, men stand leaning along the stairways, waiting. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 45, 1963
- I went back downstairs, got a scared glance from the gay boy at the desk and went outside to the drugstore on the corner[.] — Mickey Spillane, Return of the Hood, p. 97, 1964
- And eventually she found out like she wasn’t gay. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 55, 1966
- “Rubber” was “gay” but he weighed two hundred pounds and was so rough that he got any “guy” he had eyes for. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 53, 1967
- They started over to the M&M to join the gay set. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 224, 1968
- Also met other gay cats, had many talks with them. — Jefferson Polard and Valsie Alison, The Records of the San Francisco Sexual Freedom League, 1971
- The gay boy had been pressing Phil to go below with him and making various remarks full of suggestive sexual connotation[.] — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 101, 1980
- Yes, maybe Hoover and top aid Clyde Tolson had a gay thing going on. — Florida Today (Brevard County, Florida), 24 October 1999
- catering to or patronised by homosexuals US
- “I heard from a girl friend it was a gay place.” “What does the word ‘gay’ mean to you?” asked Falvery. Her head still averted, she said, “Homosexual.” “Does the word ‘gay’ refer to the premises?” “Yes.” — San Francisco News, p. 1, 20 December 1954
- I own a homosexual bar. In the nomenclature of the homosexual, it is called a Gay Bar. — Helen P. Branson, Gay Bar, p. 23, 1957
- Advertising itself as the “the world’s first gay sacramental church”, the Beloved Disciple Parish of the American Orthodox Church of the United States celebrates the most ancient Western Christian Mass. — John Francis Hunter, The Gay Insider, p. 169, 1971
- He ain’t got no girls no more. He’s sinking down. He goes to gay bars and throws champagne bottles against the wall. — Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure, p. 54, 1972
- bad, stupid, out of style US, 1978
General pejorative in juvenile use; a reversal of the politically correct norm much as “good” is BADWICKED - — Connie Eble (editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, Spring 1987
- — Pamela Munro, UCLA Slang, p. 41, 1989
- But for really up-to-the-minute types, gay doesn’t mean homosexual any more, and it certainly doesn’t mean bright and jolly. It’s now uncool, unattractive, drab, kitsch – mauve lino with metal green wallpaper, a Boston haircut, doing the Mashed Potato to John Denver records – you get the idea. — Manly Daily, 31 August 1991
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Dictionary of Teen Slang, p. 48, 1993
- We hear it every day in the halls of high school: biting remarks, cruel words, homophobic slang, anti-gay slander. “Oh that’s so gay.” — Plain Dealer, p. 1G, 25 November 1998
- That woman’s hairdo? Gay. That book jacket? Gay. The fact that Dick and Lynne Cheney won’t talk about their lesbian daugher?" Gay gay gay. — Nancy Updike, salon.com, 14 September 2000
- Man, that shit was so gay – fucking eighties style. — Kevin Smith, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, p. 10, 2001
- School is gay! — Mixmag, p. 146, June 2003
- “That’s so gay” should be used as a compliment. — Details, 17 February 2009
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