History of the Word “Gay”

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The word “GAY” has a long history in the English language, but why did “GAY” stop meaning “happy” and start referring “same sex relationships?” Watch this week’s episode of Origin of Everything to find out.
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Works Cited:
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“Review of Lavender Linguistics” Greg Jacobs
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Gay is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny ed. Michael G. Long
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"gay, adj., adv., and n.". OED Online. March 2018. Oxford University Press.
William Leap Works
Beyond the Lavender Lexicon: Authenticity, Imagination, and Appropriation in Lesbian and Gay Languages
Word's out: Gay Men's English
Judith Butler
Gender Trouble
Giving an Account of Oneself
Other Sources:
Language sexualities and Desires ed. Helen Sauntson and Sakis Kyratzis
Out in Public Reinventing Lesbian / Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World ed Ellen Lewin and William L Leap
Queering Language ed. Tommaso M. Milani
Handbook of Language and Gender ed. Janet Holmes
New Sources on Standardized testing:
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