HoYay!

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

i posted Martha Barnette's note on "HoYay!" to the newsgroup soc.motss,
because of its obvious motss-relevance (i.e., relevance to lgbt
people), and almost immediately there came this response:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: tmcd at panix.com (Tim McDaniel)
> Newsgroups: soc.motss
> Subject: Re: HoYay!
> Date: 20 Jan 2005 12:41:50 -0600
>
> In article <csok1g$5jl$1 at news.Stanford.EDU>,
> Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at Turing.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>>      Subject:        HoYay!
>>
>> Newsweek reports this expression from the blogosphere
>
> I found the origin of "HoYay".
>
> - from the _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ episode "Lie to Me"
>   (season 2, episode 7):
>         Xander:  Are you probably noticing a theme here?
>         Willow:  As in 'Vampires, yay?'
>
> - <http://www.journalfen.net/users/deeablo/2525.html>
>   (sometime since Feb 2004 rendered unaccessable without login *sob*):
>   "'Homoeroticism, Yay?' was a thread originated by Jennifer Godwin
>   (jengod) on the Mighty Big TV (now Television without Pity) Angel
>   message boards sometime during that show's first season (1999-2000)"
>   This page credits the BtVS exchange as the inspiration.
>
> - <http://www.journalfen.net/users/deeablo/2525.html>:
>   "Cut to spring 2001. ... summer reruns were looming. Whatever were
>   we fans to do? I, who was going by the username whofleck at the
>   time, posted something like, 'We should have a Camp HoYay for the
>   summer.' I can't find the exact post because MBTV gakked their
>   boards unannounced in the fall of 2001."
>
> - The first use of the phrase "Homoeroticism Yay" on Usenet was in
>   alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative, alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer, alt.tv.angel,
>   originated by Kate Bolin, pointing to
>   <http://www.dymphna.net/homoeroticismyay/>, on 15 February 2001,
>   "takes it name from the Mighty Big TV Angel thread started by
>   JenGod. ... We love big gay TV."
>
> - The first use of "HoYay" on Usenet (per Google Groups) was Mike
>   Zeares, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer, 2001-06-28 05:24:35 PST.
>
> I posted a little more info (expanded quotations and definitions) in
>
>     Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:25:35 -0500 (EST)
>     From: <tmcd at panix.com>
>     Message-Id: <200402070025.i170PZI29327 at panix3.panix.com>
>     X-Also-Posted-To: alt.tv.angel
>     Subject: Re: The HoYay Fight Scene (was Re: Did anyone else liked
> the fight scene? ** POSSIBLE SPOILERS**)