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How long is a very long time?  I am betting less than 50-6o years.   I think it was occasionally being used as slang in the 50s, 60's   I think at first the only homosexuals that were referred to as gay were the really Flamboyant males.  And I don’t think it was meant as a term of endearment.  After the 70s it was regularly being used for any male homosexual.   


Before that, the word never meant anything but certain kinds of happy, having NOTHING to do with any ones sex life.  


The rainbow has a similar problem.  The original meaning of the rainbow was a covenant between the Creator and His creation.  But since 1978 its new meaning is gay pride.  Then later the Noachide’s have used it to mean the 7 laws in their religious beliefs.   Only the second group has protested the use of their symbol for the third, but it wasn’t ever theirs first.


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