Did it always mean that?
2006-06-24 00:30:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
If you're asking when the word "gay" came to be associated with homosexuals, particularly males, it emerged from Britain in the late 19th century as a sort of "codeword" for being able to identify each other.
Those were in the days when we didn't have a strong identity in the culture and wouldn't say that "fruit" is a bigoted word to use in connection with homosexual people.
2006-06-24 01:32:41 · answer #1 · answered by blueowlboy 5 · 8⤊ 3⤋
When did the word "fruit" come to mean "gay"?
2006-06-24 07:39:00 · answer #2 · answered by St. Hell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A fruit? Is that meant to be a derogatory term for a gay person? Grow up.
2006-06-24 07:32:24 · answer #3 · answered by Psychology 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As others have already indicated...I think you have these two words switched around. "Fruit" is a negative slang word for being gay or homosexual, not the other way around.
2006-06-24 09:16:02 · answer #4 · answered by Elspeth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there are any fruits called a gay. If there was they would be Delicious.
2006-06-24 12:29:09 · answer #5 · answered by Cymalon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gay doesn't mean a fruit. Gays are people not fruit you homophobic jerk.
2006-06-25 08:06:35 · answer #6 · answered by homosceptic 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the first Hawaiian found out that if yo bust open that ugly looking big brown elephant looking turd that grew up from the ground and ate the inside it made him feel happy and gay.
2006-06-24 07:35:37 · answer #7 · answered by skyyn777 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gay used to mean happy, and for a time it also refered to a homosexual man. but according to my daughter i guess its meaning has changed again. when she refers to something that might happen in school as being so gay. lord knows whats next. back to happy?
2006-06-24 08:46:45 · answer #8 · answered by Katherine M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fruit is happy?
2006-06-24 08:31:55 · answer #9 · answered by ♂ Randy W. ♂ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it was about the same time you became synonymous with vegetable.
2006-06-24 07:59:56 · answer #10 · answered by tkdeity 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋