[78-L] 'Gay'.

[Bud Black]

And, hey!  Didn't Bing Crosby make a Columbia record in the early thirties
called "Gay Love?"  IIRC he was backed by the Dorsey Brothers orchestra, but
I could be in error on that matter.

Bud 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: David Lennick
Date: 01/25/09 20:27:36
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] 'Gay'.
 
"When I pretend I'm gay
I'm really not that way
I'm only painting the clouds with sunshine".
 
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
 
dl
 
Spats wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have two things against using 'gay' as a word for homosexual.
>
> (1) It's inaccurate. I've met some pretty miserable homosexual people
> of both sexes.
>
> (2) I can't listen to the lyrics of old songs...eg 'I Surrender Dear'...
>
> Remember these words...?
>
> 'I may act gay.
> It's just a pose.
> I'm not that way'.
>
> You just can't sing that song any more...! ;-)
>
> Earl.
>
> At 12:00 pm -0800 25/1/2009, 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com wrote:
>> As someone who's gay AND homosexual, I don't know how you can say the
word
>> was "stolen" - it's been used in its "current" meaning for over a century
in
>> some circles - in the last half-century it has moved to the mainstream in
>> that meaning.  Aren't there hundreds of words out there with more than
one
>> meaning? (Like "blue" the color and "blue" the feeling?) And "homophobic"
is
>> not a fear of men in toto- it's a fear of gay men!
>>
>> Dave W.
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