Jim C.
2008-01-29 13:52:47
Toby A. wrote, “I refuse to paint a religious community with one brush.”
You feel the same way about Christians (including Catholics), I trust.
CaptDMO wrote, “At what point did ‘Gay’ become a noun in the English lexicon?”
The 70s.
From the OED:
1971 E. MCGIRR No Better Fiend 69 Until the law was changed..there was a ring of roses around the gays, everybody extorting anything they could get.
1974 K. MILLETT Flying (1975) I. 15, I talked at DOB in August, candid, one gay to another.
