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Anime Relations: Boku no Pico

Origins of the Word 'gay'


The word “gay” seems to have its origins around the 12th century in England, derived from the Old French word ‘gai’. The word’s original meaning meant something to the effect of “joyful”, “carefree”, “full of mirth”, or “bright and showy” - So how did the word gay become what we today define as 'homosexual?

However, before we get into that; the term 'gay' has quite the colorful history, with its definition changing rather frequently throughout its history. Around the early parts of the 17th century, the word began to be associated with immorality. Fast-forward to the 19th century and the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostitute and a gay man was someone who slept with a lot of women (ironically enough), often prostitutes. Around the 1920s and 1930s, however, the word started to have a new meaning. In terms of the sexual meaning of the word, a “gay man” no longer just meant a man who had sex with a lot of women, but now started to refer to men who had sex with other men.

By 1955, the word gay now officially acquired the new added definition of meaning homosexual males. Gay men themselves seem to have been behind the driving thrust for this new definition as they felt (and many still do), that “homosexual” is much too clinical, sounding like a disorder. As such, it was common amongst the gay community to refer to one another as “gay” decades before this was a commonly known definition. Interestingly enough, homosexual men were calling one another gay as early as the 1920s.

Since then, gay, meaning homosexual male, has steadily driven out all the other definitions that have floated about through time and of course also has gradually begun supplementing the word ‘lesbian’ as referring to women who are homosexual.

Anime Relations: Kuroshitsuji

Hello all who are reading this, I need to practice writing transcript to a (very) low level and thus decided to do it upon this blog.
If those who read this could leave a small message of critique and areas for improvement, I would be much obliged.


Key (All these elements may not be used)
(.) - indicates micro-pause of half a second of less
(2) - longer pauses, second inside parentheses indicate time of pause
UPPERCASE, Italic or bold - Indicate Stress
// - Indicate overlapping speech or interruptions
/ - Indicate rising intonation
/* - Indicates falling intonation
() - Indicate non verbal behavior and paralinguistics
[] - Indicate a change in the scene and its situation


ACT 1

[Scene 1: The Phantomhive estate, Ciel is sitting within the gardens, awaiting his afternoon tea]

(Ciel sighs)

Ciel: Where is that Butler? (2) Sebastian!

(Enter Sebastian, holding a tray with a variety of cups and plates)

Sebastian: My Lord, please excuse my lateness/*

(Sebastian would place the tray upon the table, pouring from the tea pot into a cup)

Sebastian: Earl Grey tea my lord, manufactured by no one else but Brocksop & Co and of course a cake to compliment.

Ciel: Can't say I've ever seen that before (.) tell me, what is it?/

(Ciel tries the cake)

Sebastion: That is Bombe glacée, a cream dessert frozen in a spherical mould so as to resemble a cannonball, hence //the

(Ciel spits the cake onto the ground)

Ciel: Disgusting! Unediable! How dare you present me with this (.) this (.) Flith. Take it away and bring me something else.

Sebastian: Right away my Lord, I assure you I will bring you a cake of which you will find the taste quite adequate

(Sebastian would leave stage right, taking away the tray and cake)

(Ciel would be alone on stage, sipping his tea)

Ciel: I swear, am I the only competent person around here? all others around me seem to do nothing but. (1) but burden me.

(Sighs)

Ciel: That damn Butler, his errors have made me forget what I contemplating (3) Oh' yes the factory in Bath

(Laughs aloud)

Ciel: That bastard Edward, does he not know how transparent he is? I know his game, thinks he can take advantage of the Phantomhive name? Fool! I ought //to

(screams within the manor)

Sebastian: Ciel, come quick, It's... It's...

Ciel: Sebastian? (2) Sebastian!