Gay Birmingham Remembered

I’m not sure we used ‘gay’

1950

“I’m not sure we used ‘gay’ (in the 1950s) quite as much as we do these days.  It’s one of those mean, spiteful words that I, again, wouldn’t allow anyone to use with me now, they’d get their face slapped.” 

Contributed by: Robin McGarry, 66

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