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Who coined this term?

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arneson
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Who coined the word gay. Not Gay as in happy and salubrious but the homosexual term.

May 17 2011 9:20AM
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Flying~Squirrel
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i did /thread
May 17 2011 9:22AM
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arneson
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asshole
May 17 2011 10:18AM
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.Tom.
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Good question. Chances are it just got started used in general due to the Stereotype that Homosexual people act well, Gay. That kind of over the top happy/joyous homosexual stereotype is a pretty common one, no matter how true or false it is. So yeh, I doubt it was a single person or peoples which coined it, just kinda came more common to use it in that sense.
May 17 2011 10:37AM
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RubberSoul
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well youre on the right track. it just started getting used because of the definition of gay as unihibited etc.. as in, not inhibited by "normal" or "right" sexual practices
May 17 2011 10:44AM
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BMB
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Wikipedia, "The use of gay to mean "homosexual" was in origin merely an extension of the word's sexualised connotation of "carefree and uninhibited", which implied a willingness to disregard conventional or respectable sexual mores. Such usage is documented as early as the 1920s, and there is evidence for it before the 20th century,[1] "
May 17 2011 11:43AM
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arneson
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hmm thank you...
May 17 2011 12:21PM
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MCIRONCOCK
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Interestingly enough, I actually coined the term "delusions of grandeur"
May 17 2011 12:45PM
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.Tom.
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May 17 2011 1:10PM
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