Re: Halifax Pride Festival gets "Hallmark" status

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From: Daniel MacKay
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:39

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In article <6VQVl.29348$Db2.26323@edtnps83>, Rob <nospam@eastlink.ca> 
wrote:

> Brian Smith wrote:
> 
> >     Do you remember when *gay* meant happy? Now it's a term used for 
> > abnormal people.
> 
> 
> I thought they are called gay because they are happy. Don't look now, 
> but here comes that happy guy. Don't you just hate it because he's so happy.

As a piece of history, here's the first literary use of the word in the 
modern sense, by Gertrude Stein, written some time around 1910:

http://tinyurl.com/q9xylj

-dan

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From: Daniel MacKay <daniel@bonmot.ca>
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Subject: Re: Halifax Pride Festival gets "Hallmark" status
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