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Posted: 4/8/2006 5:24:12 PM EDT
When did it start meaning 'not cool'? Yes, I googled it, but my google-fu must be weak tonight.
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Posted: 4/8/2006 5:30:20 PM EDT
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72
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Posted: 4/8/2006 5:30:59 PM EDT
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I suspect about the same time as the Stonewall Riots.
I seem to recall that "gay" comes from Gay Street in The Village (NYC). Calling someone "gay" was code for a homosexual since so many lived on Gay Street. |
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Posted: 4/8/2006 5:34:35 PM EDT
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From listening to students at my school I have come to the same conclusion that GAY now means uncool, or stupid. "Dude dont act all gay(stupid)"
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Posted: 4/8/2006 5:37:54 PM EDT
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1987
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Posted: 4/8/2006 5:41:57 PM EDT
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Ask TheRedGoat.
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Posted: 4/8/2006 5:44:43 PM EDT
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PV74 is correct...not 72, but 87. And, I think you mean "ghey", not "gay" which means happy. |
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Posted: 4/8/2006 5:46:25 PM EDT
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Probably around the same time it was "redefined" right out of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. |
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Posted: 4/8/2006 5:55:14 PM EDT
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It has been used to make fun of someone/something since I was in school at least. i.e. That honda with the giant wing is gay. 
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Posted: 4/8/2006 5:59:39 PM EDT
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I just said 72 becasue it seemed like a date when gay weould really mean gay like today. But WildBoar is right gay now days means retarted or stupid, just more of a faggy stupid. I know because i use it soemtimes. |
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Posted: 4/8/2006 6:03:50 PM EDT
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Well I recall people (kids) using gay to mean uncool/ stupid around my freshman year of highschool, so 6-7 years ago. I think you're showing you're age if you've just discovered this as I don't hear many people use gay to mean uncool, now it just means homosexual.
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Posted: 4/8/2006 6:03:51 PM EDT
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Well, it was certainly after the Flintstones aired. Their theme song ended in "A dabba-doo time, you'll have a gay old time."
Ah yes, a time before "they" hijacked our language. |
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Posted: 4/8/2006 6:17:21 PM EDT
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Most people on this board use 'gay' or 'ghey' to mean uncool. That's why I was asking mainly. |
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Posted: 4/8/2006 6:21:49 PM EDT
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Good or bad, the word 'gay' has been hijacked a second time to mean 'uncool'. I had forgotten about that part in the Flintstones' theme song.
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Posted: 4/8/2006 6:34:41 PM EDT
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Hell, I remember when the word "Gay" meant happy or joyous
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Posted: 4/8/2006 7:14:55 PM EDT
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Remember when "making love" meant kissing? Me neither, but I've heard that term in a few of the old radio shows I listen to. George Burns for one.
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Posted: 4/8/2006 7:20:23 PM EDT
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My take:
First it went from happy to being hi-jacked by pole smokers. When the butt pirates took "gay", everyone just let them have the word. It wasn't until everyone realized how gay being gay was, then they just used the term "gay" to describe anything lame, un-cool, stupid, awful, or just all-around gay. |
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Posted: 4/8/2006 7:26:41 PM EDT
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My first year of Scout camp.
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Posted: 4/8/2006 7:27:40 PM EDT
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in the 90s in highschool we used it like that (as well as for things that were homosexual)
I try not to use gay for anything other than homosexual now, because many of the things I in the past would have called gay are even "gayer" than things homosexuals would willingly associate with |
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Posted: 4/8/2006 7:35:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/8/2006 7:51:06 PM EDT
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Hey, the APA can makeup whatever fucking definition that want. |
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Posted: 4/8/2006 8:02:27 PM EDT
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Per the offical manual......GAY as meant homosexual since about 1922 [in NYC anyway] in refence to the common word "fairy". |
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Posted: 4/8/2006 8:05:52 PM EDT
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It doesn't bother me, the word "gay" is gay, and therfore we should not use gay to describe happy, because happy or ecstatic are far superior.
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Posted: 4/8/2006 9:07:02 PM EDT
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I've never met a faggot (ghey) that was happy.
They are always pissed off about something. Gay means happy and carefree. When was the last time you met a queer that could be defined as such? |
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Posted: 4/8/2006 9:08:20 PM EDT
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You are part of the problem. |
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Posted: 4/8/2006 9:10:10 PM EDT
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The year of the cock.
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Posted: 4/8/2006 9:22:38 PM EDT
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What I see odd about it is that a lot of gays and others get all offended when you call something gay (as in uncool/lame). But um, they kinda butchered the name first. Seems like pretty fair game to me.
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Posted: 4/8/2006 9:27:38 PM EDT
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 .....as long as I have ammo I'm gay like a motherf##ker.
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