JTT - before our silly society decided to get all embroiled in new names for various groups of people for whatever reason..."gay" was an extremely useful word. It meant: happy, blithe, carefree...and so on. A Lady Gay was generally thought to be an attractive lady, basically, or a lady who knew how to enjoy herself, or something like that.

Now, however, "gay" is a word with a much more specific application. That's a pretty recent development, historically speaking.

No offense to gays intended by my comments, by the way.