General Chat

Marvin Gaye's birth name was Marvin Gay.
It can be a tricky subject.

My gran's aunt Beatrice married a William Gay, and this family brought my gran up for a while, though we didn't personally know this side of the family.
However, due to my genealogical studies, I'd filled in details to this side of the family, which was just as well.

My brother went to my gran's funeral in Cornwall. Gran, my dad and this brother all had/have distinctive piercing blue eyes, as apparently did gran's aunt
Brother was stood there, when a stranger walked up and said to him 'You're a Gay, you've got Gay eyes' :-0
Could have been difficult, but fortunately he knew about the surname.
Rather than be offended or burst out laughing, brother explained who he was.
They're also Johnson eyes, not Gay eyes.....

...and yes, William Gay had ancestors named Brighton. At the time, it was a joyous name to call your son - 'Bright and Gay'

Gay, from its original meaning of joyful or carefree, began to adopt its alternative use as early as the 17th century when it began to be used to describe addictions to pleasures or decadence. A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer, and a gay house a brothel etc.

The use to denote homosexuality was a further extension of the word 'carefree' to denote someone who disregarded conventional sexual attitudes.

Whether CJ bats for the other side changes nothing. He is still annoying.

Sue,

in the light of today's terminology, no i would'nt........

but in the 60's 70's things were different.........

a spade was a spade then......

Who did that RR? You sad sad little person.

Was it 'media whore' that upset you?

If so, that says more about you than my post. A heck of a lot more!!!!

You do know it means 'some one who craves publicity' and not what your dirty little mind thinks!

Jeeeeez. Nothing changes on this board.

I said that this man is a media whore - that means someone who will do anything for publicity! - also I questioned why he would put said alleged incident in a book. Has he 'embroidered' a story knowing it would attract attention.

I don't believe this story is what it is being implied.

OK?????

Thanks Island. I did wonder what you could have said.

I generally avoid threads that are full of speculation but I too have wondered how much truth there is in this "story". Whatever you think of him, he is an intelligent man. Would he, or his book editors/publishers, have been stupid enough to put into print something that could possibly put him in jail?

You're welcome Vera. It just doesn't ring true to me.

Oh.......I also asked if he was on Countdown. :-D