Community Messageboard: Edit of off topic question: how did "gay" come to be applied to homosexuals in the first place? by LadyLorraine

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The concept might kindly be described as playful meta-textual post-modernism. Most people, however, were not kind and seemed to regard it as incomprehensible self-indulgent twaddle[.]

from The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry

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off topic question: how did "gay" come to be applied to homosexuals in the first place? - Edit 1

Before modification by LadyLorraine at 27/10/2011 07:55:43 PM

did homosexuals have some stereotype of being chronically happy or something?

Although I suppose this is irrelevant to Aisha's actual question. Someone NB me the answer?

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