History of the Word “Gay”

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you ?) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG Subscribe to Origin of Everything! http://bit.ly/originsub The word “GAY” has a long history in the English language, but why did “GAY” stop meaning “happy” and start referring “same sex relationships?” Watch this week’s episode of Origin of Everything to find out. Like our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/originofeverythingpbs Instagram: @pbsoriginofeverything Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge Graphics By: Noelle Smith Edited By: Linda Huang and Mike Petrow Fact Check: Sarah Edwards Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Works Cited: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/fashion/gays-lesbians-the-term-homosexual.html https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2016/8/17/lavender-linguistics-queer-way-speak “Review of Lavender Linguistics” Greg Jacobs https://www.glaad.org/reference/offensive http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/orientation.aspx http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43795440 https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/anti-lgbt https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/supreme-court-allows-mississippi-anti-lgbt-law-stand-n835721 https://www.aclu.org/other/why-sodomy-laws-matter Gay is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny ed. Michael G. Long https://www.huffingtonpost.com/carlos-a-ball/gay-is-good_b_558484.html "gay, adj., adv., and n.". OED Online. March 2018. Oxford University Press. William Leap Works Beyond the Lavender Lexicon: Authenticity, Imagination, and Appropriation in Lesbian and Gay Languages Word's out: Gay Men's English Judith Butler Gender Trouble Giving an Account of Oneself Other Sources: Language sexualities and Desires ed. Helen Sauntson and Sakis Kyratzis Out in Public Reinventing Lesbian / Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World ed Ellen Lewin and William L Leap Queering Language ed. Tommaso M. Milani Handbook of Language and Gender ed. Janet Holmes New Sources on Standardized testing: https://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisa-2015-results-in-focus.pdf http://www.eqao.com/en/about_eqao/media_room/communication-docs/EQAO-US-comparison.pdf https://www.edglossary.org/standardized-test/