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German equivalent for gay
The German equivalent for gay is schwul, this is right but it does not origin in schwuel but in schwül, the ü is important! --U-Bahnfreund (talk) 16:13, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- @U-Bahnfreund: And one of the conventions for rendering the u with the umlaut in English is the ue construction. (Consider the song title "Danke Schoen" and its umlaut-o.) —C.Fred (talk) 16:20, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- I know, but what about Rügen? That is with the Umlaut --U-Bahnfreund (talk) 23:06, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
- Unicode support for the Latin-1 character range is now sufficiently universal that I think we can use the umlaut without fear of confusion. -- The Anome (talk) 15:17, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Another instance of early of public use for sexual orientation
The 1941 Cole Porter musical "Let's Face It", contains a song called "Farming". The premise of the song was poking fun at the celebrities trend to buy houses away from city and refer to them as their "farm" (even though they knew nothing about farming). One of the lines Porter wrote was:
"Don't inquire of Georgie Raft, Why his cow has never calfed, Georgie's bull is beautiful, but he's gay!"
Jaimelobo (talk) 19:12, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Likely origin of the word is Greek.
The likely origin of the word is Greek. Gay, (< Gk: genos, gender + isos, like). A person who likes the same gender as them self; a person who smiles excessively at their same gender; either a womanly male, or a manly female; a homosexual. Research888 (talk) 22:22, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
- @Research888: And your source? --NeilN talk to me 22:29, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
- The origin of the word "gay" has nothing to do with homosexuality, as that's not what it orginally meant. It from the French 'gai'. Paul B (talk) 16:15, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
"MSM" - Men who have sex with men
May be a good idea to include the shorthand in health care for "men who have sex with men", because it includes both those who are homosexual who engage in MSM, but also heterosexuals who engage in MSM 182.255.99.214 (talk) 08:38, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Gay is broader than homosexual
Gay is used mostly commonly to denote any kind abnormal amount of reverse gender behaviors not just sexual attraction. A boy who is more feminine than normal is often called gay. Homosexuality is one common example of reverse gender behaviors but is not the only one. The "gay community" is a term used to describe all of the lgbtq subgroups.