Reading 20th Century Newspapers Where 'Gay' Means 'Festive'

[ViolettaSachra]

"A fine day for another Gay Trip" I say as I go to buy groceries 😁

[sarazworld]

“Tunis greets a gay queen mother” I whisper as I introduce Tunis to my mom

[steveOCalley]

The opening song for the Flintstones, American television cartoon series, assures viewers that “ _we’ll have a gay old time!_ “ And they did.

[alexandercampbell]

There’s a popular ice cream here in Australia still called the Golden Gaytime.

[countbenjamin]

"How was your stag party?". " Quite a gay time we had"

[TheMewtata]

Okay buy Gay Spartan is kind of hilarious already. Can you imagine a festive spartan?

[RegebroRepairs]

"Gay Donald fancied at Windsor" is a fantastic sentence. 😂

[dominicbuckley]

Back in the 1950s, the Royal Navy used to have 12 'Gay' class patrol boats. Funnily enough, they were all named after *soldiers* (Gay Dragoon, Gay Centurion and so on). Needless to say, the Navy knew *exactly* what they were doing....

[KnittingReindeer]

We have kind of the same type of problem in Swedish, the word ”kåt” (horny is the meaning today) meant ”happy” back in the days 😂

[bee]

A Gay fourway? Sounds like someone had a good time 😆

[lizreid]

Does anyone remember the poem about the days of the week children were born on?(Wednesday's child is full of woe) It ended on "and the child who is born on the sabbath day is fair and wise and good and gay"

[rubenlarochelle]

"Gay Spartan"... I thought they were just very good friends!

[douglaswolfen]

The sheer joy of "…sure is!"

Made me smile today

[陳奕釩-ic]

WE ALL FELL GAY WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME

[JimDixon]

In Keweenaw County on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, there is an unincorporated settlement called Gay. And the only bar in town is called the Gay Bar.

[jonmiller]

"Gay Donald Fancied at Windsor" would the poshest gay romance novel imaginable

[SAOS]

Goodness knows I could use a gay fourway.

[Riverr]

I just got out of a surgery and it hurts to laugh. How dare you be so entertaining right now./j

[traiecto]

The gay thing is very funny, but you cracking up? priceless 😂😂😂

[gabespiro]

My gran still uses “queer” to mean strange