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Username: Aliegunz Gender: Male Earned Points: 2 Birthdate: 19-02-1983 Height: 170 cm.

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The word GAY arrived in English during the 12th century from Old French gai, most likely deriving ultimately from a Germanic source.1. For most of its life in English, the words primary meaning was joyful, carefree, bright and showy, and the word was very commonly used with this meaning in speech and literature. For example, the optimistic 1890s are still often referred to as the Gay Nineties. The title of the 1938 French ballet Gaîté Parisienne Parisian Gaiety also illustrates this connotation. It was apparently not until the 20th century that the word began to be used to mean specifically homosexual, although it had earlier acquired sexual connotations The derived abstract noun gaiety remains largely free of sexual connotations, although it has in the past been used in the names of places of entertainment; one of Oscar Wilde\'s favourite venues in Dublin was the Gaiety Theatre.

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