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[edit] Early Usage of word Gay

I just want to add this info to the section about the usage of the word "Gay," but I'm not able to edit the page. Also, I wasn't sure where to put it, or how to word it. I thought it would be useful, so if someone can add it, that would be nice. Thanks. (to verify, you can check this website with the date & lyrics: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dfox/porterlyrics.html)

Here's the information"

Cole Porter's 1941 musical, "Let's Face It" explicitly uses the word "gay" in both a homosexual and a non-sexual sense. Lyrics for the song "Farming" repeatedly describe many celebrities engaging in rural activities because it makes them feel "glamorous and gay" (i.e. happy), and then includes the verse: "Don't inquire of Georgie Raft Why his cow has never calfed, Georgie's bull is beautiful, but he's gay!"

Since this usage is early, and totally unambiguous, and shows how the word was understood to mean both things, I thought it would be useful for this entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raindeerroom (talk • contribs) 15:55, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gay types:

Although there's a fact, that many people are not aware. There is a scale and many types of Gay people.

There's the gay who behaviour is like a straight man, that just has a homosexual relashionship. There's the one that is more "gay" and you can look and almost say <<gay>>. The one who like to show the female side, and talks like them, and are usually very bad to society, since they show the bad side of gayness, that must not identify the whole gay category. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Miguel-Queiroz (talk • contribs) 23:36, 1 June 2008 (UTC)