Gay (disambiguation)

Gay is an adjective meaning carefree or lighthearted. In more recent decades it has come to be used to refer to homosexuals of both genders. The following people or well known celebrities are gay couples. Simon Hopkins and his hairy mole. Locations that include the word gay:

• G-A-Y, a London nightclub
• G.A.Y., from the late 1800's in London and Paris. Homosexuals used green and yellow carnations to identify each other in public. Oscar Wilde was famous for always wearing a green carnation. Hence 'G'reen 'A'nd 'Y'ellow, using the first letter of the three words, identified one as 'gay'.
• Gay, Georgia, a town in the United States
• Gays, Illinois, a village in the United States
• Gay, Michigan, a community in the United States
• Gay, West Virginia, a community in the United States
• Gay, Russia, a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia
• Gay Street (Baltimore)
• Gay Street (Manhattan)
• Gay Street (Philadelphia)

People named Gay:

• George Gay, (1917-1994), Naval Aviator in World War II
• Hobart R. Gay (1894-1983), American general
• Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, (1778-1832), French statesman
• John Gay, (1685-1732), English dramatist
• Jonathan Gay, inventor of Macromedia Flash
• Nikolai Gay (1831-1894), Russian painter
• Maria Gay, (1879-1943), Catalan opera singer
• Nicholas Ruxton Gay, Baltimore surveyor in 1747
• Noel Gay, (1898-1954), English composer of popular music
• Peter Gay, (born 1923), German-born U.S. historian
• Rudy Gay (born 1986), NBA basketball player currently playing for Memphis Grizzlies
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, (1778-1850), a French physicist

Gay may also refer to:

• The Enola Gay, the airplane from which the first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped
• several tropical cyclones, see Typhoon Gay

See also:

• Marvin Gaye, (1939-1984), musician, singer-songwriter
• Gayk Bzhishkyan, a Soviet military commander also known as Gay Dmitriyevich Gay
• Gaya Airport, the IATA code for the airport in Gaya, India