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Gay Nineties
Gay Nineties: nostalgic American term for the 1890s, also called the Naughty Nineties, evoking gaslights, bicycles, and the Gibson girl; coined retrospectively in the early twentieth century using the older sense of gay as carefree, despite the Panic of 1893 depression.
Gay panic defense
The gay panic defense, also called the homosexual panic defense, is a courtroom strategy claiming a victim's sexual orientation or unwanted same-sex advance provoked violence.
Gay pornography
Gay pornography: sexual media depicting sex between men for a presumably male audience; commercial hardcore form emerged in the 1970s US after Stonewall; scholarship from Dyer and Waugh (1985) onward; studied as gay heritage and archive.
Gay Purr-ee
Gay Purr-ee is a 1962 UPA animated musical, also called Gay Pur-ee, directed by Abe Levitow and written by Chuck and Dorothy Jones, with Judy Garland voicing Mewsette and songs by Arlen and Harburg, released by Warner Bros.
Gay Talese
Gay Talese (born 1932) is an American journalist and author, a founder of New Journalism, known for 'Frank Sinatra Has a Cold' and books including The Kingdom and the Power and Thy Neighbor's Wife.
Gay Valimont
Gay Valimont, born Jennifer Gay Valimont, is an American Democratic politician and gun violence prevention activist who is the party's 2026 nominee for Florida's 1st congressional district.
Gay village
Gay village, also called gayborhood or gay enclave, an urban district with concentrated LGBTQ+ residents, businesses, and services; examples include the Castro, Greenwich Village, Soho, and Church Street, Toronto.
Gay World Amusement Park
Gay World Amusement Park, opened as Happy World in 1937 by George Lee Geok Eng, was the last of Singapore's three World parks, with a 7,000-seat stadium, renamed 1964, demolished 2001.
Gay-for-pay
Gay-for-pay: term for heterosexually identified men performing in gay pornography for money, studied by Jeffrey Escoffier (2003) via sexual scripts; 40–60% estimated share; gay scenes pay men more than straight porn.
Gay-friendly
Gay-friendly describes businesses, destinations, policies, and spaces that welcome and protect LGBTQ people, from IGLTA-certified tourism and hotel certifications to workplace and healthcare inclusion, with pinkwashing as its main criticism.
Gay-Lussac's law
Gay-Lussac's law, also called Amontons' law, is a gas law stating that the pressure of a fixed amount of gas at constant volume is directly proportional to its kelvin temperature.
Gaya (गया) (India)
Gayā (गया), city and district headquarters in southern Bihar on the Phalgu River, 116 km south of Patna; major Hindu pind-daan pilgrimage site near Bodh Gaya; district population 4,391,418 (2011).
Gaya confederacy
The Gaya confederacy (가야 연맹) was a union of small polities in the Nakdong River basin of Korea, known for iron production and trade, annexed by Silla by 562.
Gaya He Chengzhi
嘎呀河城址 (Gayah River city site), a Liao–Jin rammed-earth walled settlement in Shulan, Jilin; near-square plan, walls 358–412 m long, seventh-batch national heritage site (2013), findspot of a Northern Song "Zhongshu Menxia" seal.
Gaya iron industry
The Gaya iron industry (가야) was the iron-producing and trading economy of the Gaya polities in southeastern Korea, which used iron ingots as currency and exported iron to Japan until 562.
Gaya Tumuli
Gaya Tumuli (가야고분군) are seven ancient tomb clusters of the Gaya Confederacy in southern Korea, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage serial site in 2023 under criterion (iii), attesting to autonomous polities sharing an iron-based culture.
Gaya-Kassapa
Gaya-Kassapa (गयाकस्सप) was the youngest of three matted-hair ascetic brothers converted by the Buddha early in his ministry; he led 200 ascetics at Gaya and became an arahant at the Fire Discourse.
Gaya–Silla wars
The Gaya–Silla wars were the sixth-century conflicts by which Silla absorbed the Gaya confederacy in southeastern Korea, annexing Geumgwan Gaya in 532 and destroying Daegaya in 562.
Gayan Mirihana Arachchilage
Gayan Mirihana Arachchilage is an RNA biologist who discovered more than 100 bacterial non-coding RNA motifs and three riboswitch classes in Ronald Breaker's Yale laboratory.
Gayashata (僧伽舍多)
Gayashata (僧伽舍多), Sanskrit Saṃghayaśas, is the eighteenth Indian patriarch in Chan (Zen) transmission, remembered for the wind-bell dialogue with his teacher Saṃghanandi and known only from Chan transmission-of-the-lamp literature.
Gayathri Raguram (காயத்ரி ரகுராம்)
Gayathri Raguram (காயத்ரி ரகுராம்), born 1984 in Chennai, is an Indian politician, former Tamil actress, and choreographer; debuted with Charlie Chaplin (2002), directed Yaadhumagi Nindraai (2020), and moved from BJP to AIADMK in 2024.
Gayatri (गायत्री)
Gayatri (गायत्री), honored as Veda Mata or Mother of the Vedas, is a Hindu goddess personifying the Gayatri Mantra, a Rigveda verse to the sun god Savitṛ used at initiation since the mid-first millennium BCE.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (গায়ত্রী চক্রবর্তী স্পিভাক)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (গায়ত্রী চক্রবর্তী স্পিভাক) is an Indian literary theorist and feminist critic at Columbia University, known for "Can the Subaltern Speak?", her Derrida translation, and postcolonial feminism.
Gayatri Devi (गायत्री देवी)
Gayatri Devi (गायत्री देवी), 1919–2009, Princess of Cooch Behar and third Maharani consort of Jaipur through marriage to Sawai Man Singh II; later three-term Lok Sabha member of the Swatantra Party who won 192,909 of 246,516 votes in 1962 and founded Jaipur's first girls' public school.
Gayatri Jayaraman
Gayatri Jayaraman (காயத்ரி ஜெயராமன்), also Gayathri Jayaram, Indian actress and former model born 1984, active 2001–2006 and from 2017. Known for Manadhai Thirudivittai (2001), the song Manja Kaattu Maina with Prabhu Deva, and Asoka; returned via Sun TV serial Nandhini and plays Selvanayagi in Aadukalam (2025).
Gayatri Joshi
Gayatri Joshi (born 1977, Nagpur) is a former Indian actress, model, and VJ; Femina Miss India International 2000; sole film Swades (2004) as Gita; married Vikas Oberoi 2005.
Gayatri Mantra
The Gayatri Mantra, also known as the Savitri mantra, is a Vedic verse from Rigveda 3.62.10 addressed to the solar deity Savitri, and Hinduism's primary initiation mantra.
Gayatri Mound
Gayatri Mound (Gayatri Tila) is an ASI centrally protected ancient mound in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh (serial 2909, Agra Circle), known for Buddhist sculptures now in Mathura Museum and for its uncertain identification near Bharatpur Gate.
Gayatri Rajapatni
Gayatri Rajapatni (1274–1350) was a Javanese princess of Singhasari, daughter of King Kertanegara, who married Raden Wijaya, Majapahit's first king, and later ruled behind the scenes as a Buddhist nun and advisor.
GAYAZOV$ BROTHER$
GAYAZOV$ BROTHER$ (братья Гаязовы) are a Russian pop duo of brothers Ilyas and Timur Gayazov, who rose from Kazan to chart success with hits like «Малиновая Лада» (2021).