gay

An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.

A unisex given name from English.

A unisex given name from English.

"Mr Gay Brawls. What a name." "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay. Even in Nevada. Was old Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.

A unisex given name from English.

A unisex given name from English.

- - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese (whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized form "Gay"), was an atypically fearless traveler,

Homosexual:

Cliff is gay, but his twin brother is straight.

He was not happy at the farm and went to a Western city where he associated with a homosexual crowd, being "gay," and wearing female clothes and makeup.

Homosexual:

gay and lesbian people

Homosexual:

In fact, as several letter writers to the New York Times pointed out in their response to the article, the disjuncture between these two popularized penguins shows how radically separated from each other are communities of gay people and communities of right-wing religious conservatives: if the Christian fundamentalists had looked up "gay penguins" or even "penguins" on the Internet, they would have encountered several gay penguin sites, including the story of Roy and Silo, the Central Park Zoo gay penguin couple about whom a children's book was written; the saga of the gay penguin community at a German zoo; and the campaign of Gay Penguin for President (whose slogan was "George W. Bush talks the talk, but Gay Penguin walks the walk.")

Homosexual:

Although the number of gay weddings has increased significantly, many gay and lesbian couples — like many straight couples — are not interested in getting married.

gay marriage

Homosexual:

A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.

[headline] N.Y. Gays: Will the Spark Die?

"Same-sex dancing, as we call it, is quite legal," a gay named Lew Todd, who was one of the spokesmen, spoke up.

Gayness: the quality of being gay.

Anti-gay persecution holds that you can pray the gay out of a person, or scare it out of them, or cajole it out of them.

Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.

At a stall soon Mary bote / A hume-book full ov gays.

I had no books to read, but plenty of gays to look at.

An ornament, a knick-knack.

Look upon precepts in emblems, as they do to upon gays and pictures.

If however the stranger be suspected of “sailing under false colours," when they are all in familiar chat about nothing in particular, “Cousin Jacky” will take occasion to say to the new chum, “My dear; ded 'e ever see a duck clunk a gay?" […] no more deceived by him than a duck can be made to clunk (swallow) a gay (fragment of broken crockery).