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> the phrase 'some gay young men' in the 21st century means something quite different than when it was written in the 17th or18th centuries.
One needn't go back that far! Our Hearts Were Young and Gay was published in 1942. It was a number-one best-seller, and supposedly was used as a code book by German cryptographers. Even more astonishing, I played M. Darnet in our high school production despite not knowing a word of French, in a town with a large French-Canadian population. I could hear them groaning when I expostulated to Cornelia and Emily about their state of dress.
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