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How did "gay" come to mean homosexual?
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#56860. Asked by tjoebigham.
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elizabethmc
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The word gay has had a sexual orientation meaning since at least the nineteenth century, and possibly earlier. There are many suggestions to how 'gay' came to mean homosexual on wiki, but there is no definite answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay
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McGruff
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Check question #45012
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