{"id":857,"date":"2012-04-05T19:03:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2012-04-05T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:03:14","slug":"what-is-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/04\/what-is-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018gay\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This piece is not so much an argument as an extension of a thought, albeit articulated aloud. Nor is it my intention to contribute to that questionable piece of postmodern study, the scourge of many a humanities and social sciences department across both sides of the Atlantic, called \u2018Queer Theory.\u2019 Rather, a few incidents this past week have set in motion a concatenation of thoughts \u00a0in my head, that lead to one simple conclusion, the inevitable abnegation of the word, \u2018gay\u2019.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t need to give the readers of this website a crash-course in the history of homosexuality. The distraction-filled online world will serve that purpose. However, we know that same-sex relationships have existed throughout the natural history of animal life. We also know that the term \u2018homosexuality\u2019 is a relatively new invention: the first known occurrence was in a German pamphlet in 1869. Similarly, the OED traces the appropriation of the word \u2018gay\u2019 to mean \u2018homosexual\u2019 only to the 1930s.<\/p>\n

Other terms, such as \u2018sodomy\u2019, in senses pejorative and neutral, predated the terms \u2018gay\u2019 and \u2018homosexuality\u2019, and, needless to say, rather than referring to any specific identity, sodomy merely referred to the act of sexual intercourse between members who were not, strictly, of the opposite sex. I will not venture here far enough to ask what \u2018sex\u2019 and \u2018gender\u2019 mean.\u00a0 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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