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Historically, <em>gay</em> has been used as an extremely offensive slur, evening evolving into a catch-all insult for “stupid” in the 1980–90s.</p> <p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EQDbDIz1Y0E" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> <p>However, in large part due to reclamation by <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gay-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay Rights</a> activists over the decades, <em>gay</em> has since become a preferred term to refer to gay men—and preferred over <em>homosexual</em>, a term that comes with a lot of painful baggage. <strong>Learn why in our recent new words update, <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/new-words-dictionary-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Dictionary.com Releases Its Biggest Update Ever.”</a></strong></p> <p>It’s hard to tell when exactly <em>G.A.Y.</em>, a <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/backronym" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backronym</a> for<em> good as you</em>, caught on in the <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lgbtq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQ</a> rights movement, but the 1994 founding of <span style="font-weight: 400;">Good As You Bangalore, an LGBTQ support group in India, helped cement it as a sometime <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/slogan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slogan</a> for sexual equality. <em>G.A.Y.</em> allows activists to re-appropriate a label while making the incisive comment that heterosexual people are no better than them.</span></p> <p>Other notable instances come from <span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeremy Hooper, the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">LGBTQ activist and author of <em>If It’s A Choice, My Zygote Chose Balls </em>who founded <em>Good As You</em> in 2005, a website dedicated to LGBTQ activism. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hooper has used the Twitter handle @goodasyou since 2007.</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Being nakedly anti-gay is still a stance that might cost you jobs, friends, and respect in 21st century society. </p> <p>But hey, go ahead and celebrate a narrow ruling that you likely didn’t even read and don’t really seem to understand.</p> <p>— Jeremy Hooper (@goodasyou) <a href="https://twitter.com/goodasyou/status/1003703506719698944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2018</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async src="https://www.dictionary.com/e/wp-content/themes/dictionary-com/js/build/bundle-theme-twitter-embeds.js"></script></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Italian film <em>Good As You</em> was protested by the Catholic church for its LGBTQ themes when it premiered in 2012. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paul Flynn’s 2017 book about gay British culture is titled <em>Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride—30 Years of Gay Britain</em>. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Good As You</em> has also been used as a song title, including by Eternal Summers in 2012 and Sundressed in 2015, though these instances are about heartache, not gay Pride.</span></p> <p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PyfPB86OLdU" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ad ad-atw-origin-mobile atw-mobile-ad" id="ad-wrapper-atw-origin-mobile"> </div> <script> var adWrappers = document.getElementsByClassName('ad-atw-origin-mobile'); 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But our name is more than just a convenient acronym, it is the message that influences our every action.</span></span> </div> <div class="examples__item__description"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeremy Hooper, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good As You</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 2005</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="examples__item"> <div class="examples__item__wrapper"> <div class="examples__item__content text" style="border: 2px solid #92d6ff;"> <span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">You know in this country </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-vw2c0b r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">gay</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> stands for </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Good As You</span></span> </div> <div class="examples__item__description"> <div class="css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz r-d0pm55" data-testid="tweet"> <div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1iusvr4 r-16y2uox r-1777fci"> <div class="css-1dbjc4n"> <div class="css-1dbjc4n r-zl2h9q"> <div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1awozwy r-18u37iz r-1wtj0ep"> <div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs"> <div id="tweet-user-name" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l"> <div class="css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2"> <div class="css-901oao css-bfa6kz r-1re7ezh r-18u37iz r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">@Formula_Ward, September 2, 2020</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-word__examples-actions"> <a href="#" data-close="SEE LESS EXAMPLES" data-open="SEE MORE EXAMPLES" > SEE MORE EXAMPLES </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-word__row" id="usage"> <div class="article-word__usage"> <h2 class="article-word__row-title"> Who uses G.A.Y.? </h2> <div class="usage__content clear"> <p><em>G.A.Y. </em>is sometimes used by the LGBTQ community to proudly declare equality in reference to a historically painful slur. It’s frequently seen on signs at <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pride" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pride</a> parades and on social media.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr">RT <a href="https://twitter.com/farrellmcmanus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@farrellmcmanus</a> About to phone bank for equality again <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/goodasyou?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#goodasyou</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NY4M?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NY4M</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/marriageequality?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#marriageequality</a></p> <p>— PhilA (@PhilAlbinus) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilAlbinus/status/75702894908805120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2011</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async src="https://www.dictionary.com/e/wp-content/themes/dictionary-com/js/build/bundle-theme-twitter-embeds.js"></script></p> <p>Rumors persist that<em> good as you</em> is the origin of using <em>gay</em> for a homosexual man or LGBTQ person more generally, but that’s bogus <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/etymology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">etymology</a> (à la <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/golf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>golf</em></a> coming from <em>Gents Only, Ladies Forbidden</em>). It was made up after the fact.</p> <p>A 2010 Urban Dictionary post states that <em>G.A.Y.</em> stands for <em>good at yoga</em>, but the evidence for this is lacking, not even on flyers for gay yoga classes.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ad ad-atw-usage-mobile atw-mobile-ad" id="ad-wrapper-atw-usage-mobile"> </div> <script> var adWrappers = document.getElementsByClassName('ad-atw-usage-mobile'); var getAdWrapper = () => { if (adWrappers.length === 1) { return adWrappers[0]; } else { for (adWrapper of adWrappers) { var childNodes = adWrapper.children; if (childNodes.length === 0) { var grandParentNode = adWrapper.parentNode.parentNode; var isVisibleNode = !(grandParentNode.style.display === 'none') if (isVisibleNode) { return adWrapper; } } } } } var adWrapper = getAdWrapper() if (adWrapper) { var adUnit = document.createElement('div'); if (isSovrn) { adUnit.classList.add('dictionary_right_rail_300x250_flex_2'); adUnit.setAttribute('data-text', 'Sovrn Advertisement'); adWrapper.appendChild(adUnit); 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