Gay as happy

As your question indicates that you already know, 'gay' originally meant 'carefree' and 'happy'. Over time, the liberalness of 'carefree' increased and by the s, it was used to describe someone of promiscuous sexual proclivities. 1 Schedule Your Free 15 min. I have a great boyfriend, interesting job, cute dog, and enough money to buy most things I want. 2 Our LGBTQ+ community has made great strides for equality and acceptance, though our beliefs about ourselves still get impacted by homophobia every day and it can hurt our ability to really know how. 3 Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen. Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers. 4 To answer the question you need to move beyond the central preoccupations of our culture. The loudest voices tell us that happiness is a matter of finding love, work, sex, and money. These four areas take up most of our time, plus there’s a lot of good stuff to watch on cable and YouTube these days. 5 Killing two birds with one stone: talking about achievements. Add gay to one of your lists below, or create a new one. 6 Everyone associates “gay” with homosexuality, so using it to mean “happy” is confusing in modern media. In older media we can infer that the writer meant “happy,” but it’s more ambiguous today. 7 On Thursday, as the Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality, reading down the controversial British-era section of the penal code, Mumbai-based Arnab Nandy took to social media to express his joy, as many across the country and the world were doing. It was around this time that the community started using the word gay to identify itself. 8 As a gay person, are YOU experiencing your share of genuine happiness? No matter how you define your sexuality — as gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, queer (gender fluid) or questioning (LGBTQ) — you are entitled to live a life filled with joy. 9 What was that gift we gave each other when our eyes met? The possibility of sex? 10