gay en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ɡeɪ/
- gā
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Etymology
From Middle English gay, from Old French gai (“joyful, laughing, merry”), usually thought to be a borrowing of Old Occitan gai (“impetuous, lively”), from Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (*gaheis, “impetuous”), merging with earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), from Frankish *gāhi; both from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden”). This is possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“to stride, step”), from *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”), but Kroonen rejects this derivation and treats the Germanic word as having no known etymology. cognates and sense derivation Cognate with Dutch gauw (“fast, quickly”), Westphalian Low German gau, gai (“fast, quick”), German jäh (“abrupt, sudden”). Anatoly Liberman, following Frank Chance and Harri Meier, believes Old French gai was instead a native development from Latin vagus (“wandering, inconstant, flighty”), with *[w] > [g] as in French gaine. The sense of homosexual (first recorded no later than 1937 by Cary Grant in the film Bringing Up Baby, and possibly earlier in 1922 in the poem "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gertrude Stein) was shortened from earlier gay boy ("young male prostitute") and gay cat ("homosexual boy") in underworld and prison slang, itself first attested about 1935, but used earlier for a young tramp or hobo attached to an older one. Pejorative usage is due to hostility towards homosexuality. The sense of ‘upright’, used in reference to a dog’s tail, probably derives from the ‘happy’ sense of the word.
Meanings
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(of a person) Homosexual: ▸ Only possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself.
The two failed attempts to receive the necessary access to medicalized transition procedures by the renowned FTM activist Lou Sullivan—a gay man who refused to comply with the imperative that transsexual men must desire women— […]
2007, Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, David Serlin, Queer Futures, Radical History Review (Duke University Press), page 58Her adoptive mother fainted when Gail told her she was gay.
2009, Betty Jean Lifton, Lost & Found: the Adoption Experience, page 67:She couldn't even gain access from a family friend whose name was on the list, nor could she use her feminine charms to turn on the staff member, who revealed he was gay and was more impressed seeing Billy and Chuck enter the building.
2003, Michael McAvennie, The World Wrestling Entertainment Yearbook: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.
1947, Rorschach Research Exchange and Journal of Projective Techniqueshttp://books.google.com/books?id=vloZAAAAIAAJ, page 240Of the dozen or so surviving articles, squibs, and letters to the editor, the most remarkable appeared in the Whip and Satirist’s February 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a cabal of gay men in New York's otherwise wholesome nightscape of brothels and riots. Moreover it identified the spider who minced so delicately along the wide-flung strands of the sodomitical web. "There is not one so degraded as this Captain Collins, the King of the Sodomites." He was a foreigner, an Englishman, in the long tradition of blaming homosexuality on the influence of aliens. Among the syndicate of perverts, the writer announced, "we find no Americans as yet—they are all Englishmen or French" (the English called homosexuality the French vice and the French the English vice; for the Whip it was the French and English vice).
2005, Mark Caldwell, New York Night, page 133:Cliff is gay, but his twin brother is straight.
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(qualifier:strictly) Homosexual: ▸ Of a man, only romantically and/or sexually attracted to other men.
gay and lesbian people
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(broadly, of an animal) Homosexual: ▸ Tending to partner or mate with other individuals of the same sex.
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.")
2010, Noėl Sturgeon, Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural, page 128:
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(of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Homosexual: ▸ Between two or more persons perceived to be of the same sex or gender as each other.
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
gay sex
- (colloquial) Homosexual: ▸ Not heterosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
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(of an institution or group) Homosexual: ▸ Intended for gay people, especially gay men.
Turn left into chilled-out Old Compton St and try to guess which bars are gay. Even the straight bars in Soho are quite gay, so it's often a bit hard to tell.
2004, Martin Hughes, Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters, London, page 208:Gays meet each other in special-interest social groups—gay softball leagues, gay bike clubs, gay gymnasia, gay activist political organizations, the Gay Academic Union (an organization for gay teachers, scholars and students), gay university student clubs and so on.
1977, Charles Silverstein, Edmund White, The Joy of Gay Sex, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:He might well have suspected Cheek was a gay bar without seeing any of its patrons, simply because it was in a neighborhood where most of the bars were gay, and because you couldn't see in the windows.
2003, Lawrence Block, Small Town, page 269:Again I was to masturbate into a cup and again the majority of the porn was gay.
2010, Jay Mohr, No Wonder My Parents Drank: Tales from a Stand-Up Dad, page 252:She professes an undying love for gay bars and gay movies, and even admits to having watched gay porn.
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(slang, with for) Homosexual: ▸ Homosexually in love with someone.
Being gay for Brad, even a teensy bit, is at the very least being able to imagine the potential for queerness. In a sense, like the recent popular and critical furor over men who are gay-for-pay, being gay for Brad is what Jeffrey Escoffier defines as "situational homosexuality," or other forms of man-on-man behavior […] In other words, rather than worry over whether or not men who are queer for Brad can easily be labeled as straight or gay, […]
2014, Christopher Schaberg, Robert Bennett, Deconstructing Brad Pitt, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 211:[…] it’s now pretty popular among progressives to paint the US and Russian presidents as being gay for each other.
2017 May 2, German Lopez, “Stephen Colbert tried to insult Donald Trump. He made a homophobic comment instead.”, in Vox:[…] the pirates, who are obviously totally gay for each other […]
2014 December 6, Ej Dickson, “The 7 worst things about NBC's "Peter Pan Live!"”, in Salon.com:
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(humorous, slang, with for) Homosexual: ▸ Infatuated with something, aligning with homosexual stereotypes.
Vanilla straight guy here. […] Is it socially acceptable for me to good-naturedly say, "I'm totally gay for musical theater"?
2014 December 31, Dan Savage, anonymous quotee, “Savage Love”, in The Stranger:
- (broadly, of appearance or behavior) Homosexual: ▸ In accordance with stereotypes of homosexual people: ▸ Being in accordance with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
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(broadly, of a person, qualifier:especially a man) Homosexual: ▸ In accordance with stereotypes of homosexual people: ▸ Exhibiting appearance or behavior that accords with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
This incident has become a source of much discussion, and the jury is still out on who is more gay: the guy who touched a dick or the guy who let a guy touch his dick.
a. 2005, Jason Christopher Hartley, “October 23, 2004: This Is My Weapon, This Is My Gerber”, in Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq, HarperCollins, published 2005, →ISBN, page 25:
- (derogatory, pejorative, slang) Flamboyant or effeminate in behavior.
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(derogatory, pejorative, slang) Used to express dislike: lame, uncool, stupid, burdensome, contemptible, generally bad.
Dolph: "Oh, man! You kissed a girl!" Jimbo: "That is so gay!"
1996, Lisa's Date With Density, The Simpsons (cartoon television series). Upon discovering Nelson kissing LisaThis game is gay; let’s play a different one.
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(dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.
The Gay Science
’Tis fine to be a pretty girl, or just a gay and witty girl, And obviously to be both is rightly counted jam[.]
1939 July 19, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 14, column 1:The excitement engendered by the decision to die perked him right up; he had not felt so gay for ages.
1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 252:The Gay Divorcee.
1934, George Marion Jr. et al., (title)Never was there a more copious Fancy or greater reach of Wit, than what appears in Dr. Donne; nothing can be more gallant or gentile than the poems of Mr. Waller; nothing more gay or ſprightly than thoſe of Sir John Suckling; and nothing fuller of Variety and Learning than Mr. Cowley’s.
c. 1692, William Walch, preface to Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant, in John Dryden, The Fourth Part of Miſcellany Poems, Jacob Tonson (publisher, 1716), page 338Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:To think that only yesterday / I was cheerful, bright and gay
1972, Gilbert O'Sullivan, “Alone Again (Naturally)”, in Back to Front:
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(dated) Quick, fast.
My correspondent, who was riding in the first coach, comments that the small standard tender did not take kindly to this gay progress, and signified its disapproval from time to time by bombarding the train with lumps of coal!
1954 July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 488:We shot along Sunset Boulevard at a gay pace, and squealed a turn down Vine Street with never a jitterbug pedestrian to make the driving interesting.
2019, Lawrence Lariar, He Died Laughing, Open Road Media, →ISBN:We launched our canoe and were off at a gay clip for Hackettstown, where Mart had a married sister, and we were figuring on big eats.
1918, Hunter-trader-trapper, page 36:"[…] there is no one more competent to make it fly at a gay pace than myself. A prince of the royal blood couldn't go at a faster pace than I have been going during these last three weeks! Ha, ha, ha!" In a moment he was kneeling before the safe.
2016, Laura Jean Libbey, Mischievous Maid Faynie, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:I went a gay shack, / For it started to rain.
1873, Gwordie Greenup, Yance a Year, section 25:
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(dated) Festive, bright, or colourful.
Rhos station had been cleaned up for the occasion, and its single platform was gay with flags.
1946 May and June, “Notes and News: Special Services for the Welsh National Eisteddfod”, in Railway Magazine, page 188:A Beavie of fair women, richly gay / In gems and wanton dress.
1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Pennsylvania Dutch include the plain folk and the gay folk.
1944, Ralph Blane, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Make the Yule-tide gay / From now on our troubles will be miles away
Don we now our gay apparel.
1881, J. P. McCaskey (editor), “Deck the Hall”, Franklin Square Song Collection, number 1, Harper & Brothers (New York), page 120
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(obsolete, of animates as well as inanimates) Fair, beautiful, pretty, bonny; elegant, fine.
'I knowe wher is a gay castle, Is builded of lyme and stone; Within their is a gay ladie, Her lord is riden and gone.'
1880-86 (recorded), “Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon (A)”, in Francis James Child, compiler, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, part 6, published 1889:THERE was a king of the north countree, […] And he had daughters one, two, three. […] To the eldest he gave a beaver hat, And the youngest she thought much of that. To the youngest he gave a gay gold chain, And the eldest she thought much of the same.
1861 (recorded), “The Twa Sisters (R)”, in Francis James Child, compiler, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, part 1, published 1882:Thy purse and eke thy gay guilt kniues, thy pincase gallant to the eie: No better wore the Burgesse wiues, and yet thou wouldst not loue me.
1878 [1584], Clement Robinson, “A new Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeues” (stanza 7), in Edward Arber, editor, A Handful of Pleasant Delights:
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(obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of any gender), (sometimes particularly) engaged in prostitution.
"As nothing could be more gay, i.e., debauched, than Zeno's court, so the ladies of gay disposition had great sway in it; particularly one, whose name was Fausta, who, though not extremely handsome, was by her wit and sprightliness very agreeable to the emperor.
1899, Henry Fielding, edited by Edmund Gosse, The works of Henry Fielding with an introduction, volume 11, page 290:Gay (common), loose, dissipated; a "gay woman" or "gay girl," a prostitute. "All gay," vide ALL GAY.
1889, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinker's Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology, volume 1, page 399:As our heroes passed along the Strand, they were accosted by a hundred gay ladies, who asked them if they were good-natured. "Devil take me!" exclaimed Echo, "if I know which way my ship heads; but there is not a girl in the Strand that I would touch with my gloves on."
1806 (edition of 1815), John Davis, The Post-Captain, page 150She imprudently forms the acquaintance of a "gay girl" living in the same street.
1898, John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Aston Singer, “The Social Evil Problem”, in The University magazine and free review: a monthly magazine, volume 9, page 308:"It's an odd thing," he observed, "that men like Crutchley, with quantities of large white teeth, are practically always gay Lotharios."
1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon, page 357:Most of them liked the work because it was gay and because they were able to earn more than other girls who worked in offices or city stores. They apparently remain taxi-dancers for only about a year or two[.]
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88:[…] it is possible for people to be diseased without being prostitutes or gay women; it is possible for people years ago to have spent a gay life and to have not got rid of their disease, or they may have become diseased by their husbands or lovers.
1879, Great Britain, Reports from committees, House of Commons, page 61:Prince Borghese was what is called a "gay, dissipated man"—that is to say, a powerful person leading a debauched and infamous life.
1856, Bayle St. John, The Subalpine kingdom: or, Experiences and studies in Savoy, Piedmont, and Genoa, volume 2, page 158:
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(of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
By now Nora had left my side and was grappling with Maisie, trying to hold her still long enough to examine her bit. “You haven’t trained her well,” she muttered to Eli. “Oh, she’s got a gay tail!” Eli laughed. “A gay tail? What does that mean?” “It curls upward.” Nona let Maisie go. “Still, you never intended her to be a show dog,” she added. brushing off her skirt as she made for the house.
2000, David Leavitt, Martin Bauman; or, a Sure Thing:While the dog in concentrating at a given task, the tail is carried low and used for balance. In excitement it may rise level with the back. A “gay” tail is a fault.
1997, Michael DeVine, Border Collies:
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(Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete, possibly) Considerable, great, large in number, size, or degree. In this sense, also in the variant gey.
There were a gay bit of lace on it.
1881, Dixon, Craven DalesA gay deal different to what I is noo.
1876 (edition; original 1871), Richardson, Talk 1Thou 's wantin' a sweetheart? Thou 's had a gay few! An' thou 's cheatit them, […]
1872, William Cullen Bryant, A Library of Poetry and Song, page 106:T'country-side was rid on him for a gay while.
1881, Edwin Waugh, Tufts of Heather, I. 106:As his reply was rather characteristic, I will give it : Many of them come a gay bit off.
1832, George Pearson, Evenings by Eden-side: Or, Essays and Poems, page 67:"He has a gay bit of gumption in him, has Ray. It'll be no kitten play to catch hold on him, and they know that they do." The emphasis was accompanied by a lowered tone, and a sidelong motion of the head towards a doorway […]
1895, Sir Hall Caine, The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance, page 131:"It's a gay bit off, though." "Trot on!" retorted Mr. Jorrocks anxiously, spurring Arterxerxes vehemently, an insult that the animal resented by a duck of his head and a hoist of his heels. Bump, bump, trot, trot, squash, splash, swosh, they went ...
1903, Robert Smith Surtees, Handley Cross, New York: D. Appleton, page 431:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| gayer | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| gayest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
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Descendants
gai · gay · guei · เกย์ · gay · கேய் · gay · గే · geja · 基 · ugeyi · ゲイ · 給 · ဂေး · gej · gay · aerach · gay · γκέι · gay · gey · gay · 给
Relateds
Synonyms
queer · homosexual (homosexual) · ghey
Translations (330)
ms gembira (happy, joyful and lively) · es alegre (happy, joyful and lively) · la festus (festive, bright, colorful) · cy llawen (happy, joyful and lively) · pt feliz (happy, joyful and lively) · eo samseksama (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · it felice (happy, joyful and lively) · fr gay (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · pl radosny (happy, joyful and lively) · de schwul (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · pt chato (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · es afeminado (behaving in a way associated with females) · fi korea (festive, bright, colorful) · ja つまらない (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · uk гомосексуа́л (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · cy siriol (happy, joyful and lively) · fr gay (typical of homosexual appearance) · et homoseksuaal (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ro gay (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ia gay (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · lv gejs (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · hu meleg (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · fr gai (festive, bright, colorful) · es aburrido (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · la cinaedus (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ru цветно́й (festive, bright, colorful) · de gay (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · sv fjollig (behaving in a way associated with females) · am ደማቅ (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · nl monter (happy, joyful and lively) · pt alegre (happy, joyful and lively) · no fargerik (festive, bright, colorful) · ja 同性愛 (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · eo gaja (happy, joyful and lively) · mt ferħan (happy, joyful and lively) · hu jókedvű (happy, joyful and lively) · el πούστης (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · tr canlı (festive, bright, colorful) · be гамасексуа́льны (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · nl verwijfd (behaving in a way associated with females) · io gaya (happy, joyful and lively) · ru я́ркий (festive, bright, colorful) · he עַלִּיז (happy, joyful and lively) · sv gay (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ja 楽しい (happy, joyful and lively) · id gay (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · zh 同性戀 /同性恋 (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · cy hoyw (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · de fröhlich (happy, joyful and lively) · as গে’ (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ms membosankan (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · da homoseksuel (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · pt festivo (festive, bright, colorful) · ru гей (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · it allegro (happy, joyful and lively) · tl bakla (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ia gaudiose (happy, joyful and lively) · es festivo (festive, bright, colorful) · mk педерски (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ms suka (happy, joyful and lively) · es penca (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · ca gai (happy, joyful and lively) · sv grann (festive, bright, colorful) · el γκέι (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · as সমকামী (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · fr gai (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · es fome (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · es gay (typical of homosexual appearance) · fr ringard (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · ka კაშკაშა (festive, bright, colorful) · no bøg (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · el ζωηρός (happy, joyful and lively) · pl pedalski (typical of homosexual appearance) · nl homoseksueel (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · no glad (happy, joyful and lively) · no homsete (typical of homosexual appearance) · el εύθυμος (happy, joyful and lively) · it allegra (happy, joyful and lively) · no homo (typical of homosexual appearance) · ru ге́йский (typical of homosexual appearance) · ru голубо́й (typical of homosexual appearance) · nrf dgai (happy, joyful and lively) · sh homoseksualan (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · tr canlı (happy, joyful and lively) · ca gai (typical of homosexual appearance) · tr ibne (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ja 派手な 華やかな 色鮮やかな (festive, bright, colorful) · mi tōingo (festive, bright, colorful) · hu gáz (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · it lieto (happy, joyful and lively) · tr ibne (typical of homosexual appearance) · io geya (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · bg безгрижен (happy, joyful and lively) · tr homo (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · zh 色彩鮮艷的 /色彩鲜艳的 (festive, bright, colorful) · pt vívido (festive, bright, colorful) · dsb lesbiski (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · pt sem graça (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · et homoseksuaalne (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ka მხიარული (happy, joyful and lively) · pl zmanierowany (behaving in a way associated with females) · no homoseksuell (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · pt contente (happy, joyful and lively) · mt linfa (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · sw shoga (festive, bright, colorful) · io geyala (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · de ausgelassen (happy, joyful and lively) · ru ра́достный (happy, joyful and lively) · la festivus (festive, bright, colorful) · fr gai (happy, joyful and lively) · es gayo (festive, bright, colorful) · et gei (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · es alegre (festive, bright, colorful) · fi homoseksuaalinen (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · fi eläväinen (happy, joyful and lively) · ka გეი (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ar مِثْلِيّ (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · es marimachado (typical of homosexual appearance) · ru жизнера́достный (happy, joyful and lively) · de schwul (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · fi iloinen (happy, joyful and lively) · ru весёлый (happy, joyful and lively) · la hilaris (happy, joyful and lively) · no livlig (happy, joyful and lively) · es femenino (typical of homosexual appearance) · no festlig (happy, joyful and lively) · sv glad (happy, joyful and lively) · grc κίναιδος (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ko 게이 (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · el ομοφυλόφιλη (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · no femi (behaving in a way associated with females) · af gay (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · no soper (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · sv homosexuell (typical of homosexual appearance) · ms warna-warni (festive, bright, colorful) · fi homo- (typical of homosexual appearance) · fa خوشحال (happy, joyful and lively) · zh 高興 /高兴 (happy, joyful and lively) · bg обра́тен (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · pt guei (typical of homosexual appearance) · es vívido (festive, bright, colorful) · pl zniewieściały (behaving in a way associated with females) · nl kleurrijk (festive, bright, colorful) · fi tyhmä (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · pl gejowski (typical of homosexual appearance) · ka ჭრელი (festive, bright, colorful) · hu nőies (behaving in a way associated with females) · eo samseksema (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · yue 同性戀 /同性恋 (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · pt efeminado (behaving in a way associated with females) · grc ἱλαρός (happy, joyful and lively) · de farbenfroh (festive, bright, colorful) · de homosexuell (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · fr gaie (happy, joyful and lively) · bn সমকামী (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · sv gay (typical of homosexual appearance) · ms homoseksual (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · fi naismainen (behaving in a way associated with females) · zh 半陰 /半阴 (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · el φαιδρός (happy, joyful and lively) · pt gay (typical of homosexual appearance) · he עַלִּיזָה (happy, joyful and lively) · it gaio (happy, joyful and lively) · cy siriol (festive, bright, colorful) · tr eşcinsel (typical of homosexual appearance) · sv homo (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · he עַלִּיז (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · el ομοφυλόφιλος (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · zh 半陰陽 /半阴阳 (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · fi homo (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · ru мане́рный (typical of homosexual appearance) · nl vrolijk (happy, joyful and lively) · as সমলৈংগিক (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · mk геј (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · eo geja (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · it gaia (happy, joyful and lively) · tl tibo (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · cs homosexuální (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ka ბრწყინვალე (festive, bright, colorful) · de lustig (happy, joyful and lively) · ja 嬉しい (happy, joyful and lively) · cs veselý (happy, joyful and lively) · mt omosesswali (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · no morsom (festive, bright, colorful) · el αδερφίστικος (typical of homosexual appearance) · et lustlik (happy, joyful and lively) · mt gay (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · it finocchio (typical of homosexual appearance) · fi homo- (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · de bunt (festive, bright, colorful) · da livlig (happy, joyful and lively) · el λεσβία (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · fi hilpeä (happy, joyful and lively) · sw shoga (happy, joyful and lively) · tr iç açıcı (festive, bright, colorful) · ca gai (festive, bright, colorful) · sk gejovský (typical of homosexual appearance) · fi homojen (typical of homosexual appearance) · lt gėjus (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · fr homo (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · tr eşcinsel (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · fi homo (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · af homoseksueel (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · sk homosexuálny (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · mt ferħana (happy, joyful and lively) · grc βάταλος (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · el εύθυμος (festive, bright, colorful) · tl tomboy (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · af moffie (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ka ფერადი (festive, bright, colorful) · de schwul (typical of homosexual appearance) · cy llawen (festive, bright, colorful) · mt allegruż (happy, joyful and lively) · tr homoseksüel (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · nl homofiel (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ko 동성애자 (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · sk zženštilý (behaving in a way associated with females) · sv homosexuell (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ru жема́нный (behaving in a way associated with females) · hi समलैंगिक (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · it allegro (festive, bright, colorful) · sv bög (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · sk veselý (happy, joyful and lively) · mk женствен (behaving in a way associated with females) · ar ليزبيان (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · da sjov (festive, bright, colorful) · vi đồng tính (typical of homosexual appearance) · tr homoseksüel (typical of homosexual appearance) · fi iloinen (festive, bright, colorful) · am ጌይ (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · gd co-sheòrsach (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · it gaio (festive, bright, colorful) · gd co-ghnèitheach (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · dsb šwulny (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · hu vidám (happy, joyful and lively) · hu tarka (festive, bright, colorful) · mt pufta (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · de lesbisch (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ja ゲイ (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · mt mxaqleb (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · hu színes (festive, bright, colorful) · es gay (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · bg хомосексуа́лен (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · pl wesół (happy, joyful and lively) · ru гомосексуа́л (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · es amujerado (behaving in a way associated with females) · fa همجنسگرا (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ja ださい (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · ka ჰომოსექსუალი (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · tr neşeli (happy, joyful and lively) · es feliz (happy, joyful and lively) · sv lustig (happy, joyful and lively) · fa گی (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · tr şen (festive, bright, colorful) · sv bögig (behaving in a way associated with females) · es mariconado (typical of homosexual appearance) · fr homo (typical of homosexual appearance) · vi gay (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · io gaya (festive, bright, colorful) · bg весел (happy, joyful and lively) · it gay (typical of homosexual appearance) · gd gèidh (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · es amanerado (behaving in a way associated with females) · tr parlak (festive, bright, colorful) · el αδερφή (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · el παρδαλός (festive, bright, colorful) · uk ґей (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · gd gèidh (typical of homosexual appearance) · yue 基 (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · mk хо́мосексуален (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · sh хомосексуалан (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · no homo (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · da lesbisk (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ka ბედნიერი (happy, joyful and lively) · ar جيى (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · pl homoseksualny (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · it lieta (happy, joyful and lively) · nl feestelijk (festive, bright, colorful) · ar مِثْلِيَّة (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · es homosexual (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · tl bading (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · sk homosexuálny (typical of homosexual appearance) · fa گی (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ar جاى (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · da bøsse (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ca gai (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ga spéiriúil (happy, joyful and lively) · nl uitgelaten (happy, joyful and lively) · ka ქალური (behaving in a way associated with females) · hu élénk színű (festive, bright, colorful) · ga bán (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · pt gay (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · mt sissi (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · no festlig (festive, bright, colorful) · he גֵּאֶה (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · zh 同性戀的 /同性恋的 (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · it gay (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · vi đồng tính (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · el πούστικος (typical of homosexual appearance) · es colorido (festive, bright, colorful) · sv homo (typical of homosexual appearance) · it omosessuale (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · hu buzis (typical of homosexual appearance) · ja オカマ (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · tr renkli (festive, bright, colorful) · pt guei (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · da farverig (festive, bright, colorful) · ja 陽気な (happy, joyful and lively) · nl opgetogen (happy, joyful and lively) · nl goedgezind (happy, joyful and lively) · grc λάσταυρος (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · fo glaður (happy, joyful and lively) · mt pufta (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · ia gaudiose (festive, bright, colorful) · ka მამათმავალი (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · nv nádleeh (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · hu béna (lame, uncool (used to express dislike)) · bg шарен (festive, bright, colorful) · no homse (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ase G@Chin-PalmBack (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · fr gai (typical of homosexual appearance) · da glad (happy, joyful and lively) · fa همجنسگرا (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · ga aerach (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · dsb homoseksualny (homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian) · it effemminato (behaving in a way associated with females) · ca gaia (happy, joyful and lively) · he עַלִּיז (festive, bright, colorful) · mt allegruża (happy, joyful and lively) · fa خوشحال (happy, joyful and lively)