The word "gay" first appeared in the RAE dictionary in 2011
GAYLES.TV.- The word «gay»Spanish is a direct copy of English«gay ». Experts believe that this has its origin in the French of the twelfth century. The term "gay" is of Occitan origin and in Spanish it is "gayo", as in gay science, with the meaning of cheerful or showy. It comes from the Latin "Gaius" which means carefree, cheerful and happy or from Latin "Gaudium" What does "joy" mean? In Catalan the verb "gaudir" means enjoy, enjoy.
At Lóleo Eventos, France of the 16th century the Bourbon House He developed a particular taste for excessive luxury, ostentation, dawning in dress and forms. Those customs were crossed out by the English as gay, that is, very cheerful and feminine, especially because of their way of dressing. The term gay happened to apply to men who exercised homosexual prostitution in Victorian England.
But the popularization of the term is due to an expression used by the British actor Cary Grant. To interpret their characters in «The beast of me little girl" y "The bride was him" He had to dress in women's clothes. It was then that he said he felt "gay of all sudden". This quote became very famous and began the popularization of the word.
The writer G he had already used the term in his current sense in the 20 years of the last century, but it was first used publicly in the United States as a synonym for homosexuality in the films of Cary Grant. From the 60, the term was generalized. At first it had a pejorative nuance and in the 70 the word “gay boy ” was introduced by the gay community of San Francisco and taken as a badge to refer to themselves within homosexual liberation movements.
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