[Ads-l] "Gay" in Latest OED Release

[Shapiro, Fred]

I see in the latest OED release that they have included my discovered 1934 use of "gay" meaning "homosexual" as their earliest citation for this sense:

1934   Let. ‘Jay’ to ‘Jimmey’ (transcript, Univ. of Chicago Libr.: Ernest W. Burgess Papers, Box 98, Folder 11)    Gay People are generally people who live their own lives speak their own thoughts and are in love with their own sex.

Fred Shapiro



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