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Gay
Term referring to a homosexual person
This article is about gay as an English-language term. For the sexuell orientation, see homosexuality. For homosexual dock, see gay men. For homosexual women, see lesbian. For other uses, see Gay (disambiguation).
Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual individ or the trait of being homosexual. The begrepp originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'.[1]
While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 19th century, that meaning became increasingly common bygd the midth century.[2] In modern English, gay has come to be used as an adjective, and as a noun, referring to the community, practices and cultures associated with homosexuality. In the s, gay became the word favored bygd homosexual dock to describe their sexuell orientation.[3] bygd the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century, the word gay was recommended bygd major LGBTQ groups and styl
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21 LGBT Biographies or Memoirs You Should Read Now
Into the Garden With Charles by Clyde Phillip Wachsberger (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $28)
A sweet and inspiring story about art, love, and gardening, Into the Garden With Charles is set against around the author's noteworthy garden outside his year-old house in the hamlet of Orient on Long Island. In the memoir we meet Wachsberger, a boy in New York City who dreams of storybook gardens and grows into a a middle-aged gay man who has given up on finding the one. Then he meets Charles, an avid gardener, and the two will become life partners and create the wildly gorgeous garden of their dreams. Wachsberger's published books include Daffodil, Rose, Of Leaf and Flower, and Stories and Poems for Gardeners, which he edited with his partner, Charles Dean, and for which his illustrations won the Garden Writers Association award for best book illustration. Into the Garden With Charles, in fact,includes 14 full-colo
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Dramatist and poet John Gay had a prolific and successful writing career in 18th century London, but is best known for his tour-de-force satirical play, The Beggar's Opera.
Gay was born to a prominent Devonshire family in In , he moved to London to work as secretary to the dramatist Aaron Hill. Through Hill, Gay was exposed to London’s literary circles, where he made the acquaintance of such celebrated writers as Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and Dr. Arbuthnot.
Gay began his writing career as a poet and ballad-lyric writer. His first published work was the burlesque poem Wine. Though his first play, The Mohawks, was never produced, his second play, The Wife of Bath, was produced at Drury Lane, London's most important theatre at the time, in
However, Gay's first real success came with the play, The Shepherd’s Week. His relationship with Drury Lane continued with the r