first comes love...

[Victor Steinbok]

Slight correction: Wordnik has 26 citations, not 2 (and all appear to be
correct). I failed to click "More". Not sure how far back it goes, but
among the 26, adjectival uses are common, although many are "[be]
gay-married" and "[get] gay-married". And there are occasional straight
verbs (e.g., "X gay-married Y", etc.).

     VS-)

PS: Bracketed parts signify multiple forms of the copula, not absent
material, in this case. I am usually hesitant to refer to
participle-formed adjectives as adjectives, except in obvious cases ("a
gay-married couple"), and avoid tying examples of this kind (be/get +
ppl) to adjectives at all. Probably comes from being undereducated.

On 3/12/2011 2:05 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> Wordnik finds two more hits.
> ...

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