{"id":4255,"date":"2011-01-17T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:30:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:30:37","slug":"the-first-time-gay-meaning-homosexual-was-used-as-such-in-a-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/the-first-time-gay-meaning-homosexual-was-used-as-such-in-a-film\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time &#8220;Gay&#8221;, Meaning &#8220;Homosexual&#8221;, Was Used as Such in a Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bringing-up-baby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4256\" title=\"bringing-up-baby\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bringing-up-baby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bringing-up-baby.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bringing-up-baby-340x232.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click Here for Sources and to Learn How 'Gay' Came to Mean Homosexual\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/how-gay-came-to-mean-homosexual\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn How &#8216;Gay&#8217; Came to Mean Homosexual<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bringing Up Baby in 1938 was the first film to use the word gay to mean homosexual.\u00a0 Cary Grant, in one scene, ended up having to wear a lady\u2019s feathery robe.\u00a0 When another character asks about why he is wearing that, he responds an ad-libbed line \u201cBecause I just went gay\u201d.\u00a0 At the time, mainstream audiences didn\u2019t get the reference so the line was thought popularly to have meant something to the effect of \u201cI just decided to be carefree.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn How &#8216;Gay&#8217; Came to Mean Homosexual Text Version Bringing Up Baby in 1938 was the first film to use the word gay to mean homosexual.\u00a0 Cary Grant, in one scene, ended up having to wear a lady\u2019s feathery robe.\u00a0 When another character asks about why he is wearing that, he responds an [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[768,135,138,1040],"class_list":["post-4255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-entertainment-trivia","tag-gay","tag-homosexual","tag-movie-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}