Gay=Happy=Homosexual=Fruity=Uncool

That's gay!
What could they mean?! Once upon a time gay meant you were happy and some girls were named Gay; now if I were to say I'm gay, then I'm a homosexual and no parent in there right mind would name their kid Gay anymore. Why? Because the meaning of the word has changed over time. It is now new lingo for that is not cool, homosexual, and altogether different, but unacceptable. Gay kind of goes along with fruity. When did fruity ever mean homo? What is this world coming to?
"Man this song sounds fruity."
"Yeah, I know it sounds so gay."
Have you ever heard or said something similar? Well, I'm not going to lie. I have said things along these lines. They mean the songs sounds lame, not cool, odd. Back in to day, people wouldn't even know what you were talking about if you said a song sounded fruity and if you said it sounded gay, it sounded happy.
So I was thinking how in the world did this happen anyways? I was thinking maybe the first person who started this had a group of friends like me where they have codewords for other words. Like for example, I would be talking to Emma on the phone about a boy and I didn't want my mother to understand so I would refer to him as Stacey. Or how some of my friends decided to use derivative as a code word for something else so that Vidal didn't know they weren't doing the math. So I decided I better do a little research since these didn't quite fit in.
It seems to be unsure of when it really changed, but a lot seem to agree it gained fire around the 60's and 70's. Homosexuals began referring themselves as gay. Even brothels were refereed as gay houses. Fruity seems to have come around the same time too. Sometimes I'll never really get people though it seems. I just don't get how gay went from happy to homosexual to lame. But here is a site that can explain this mess a whole lot better than me. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_the_word_gay_start_to_mean_homosexual
I just got one last thing to say: It must really have sucked to be named Gay when the meaning changed.
"What is your name?"
"I'm Gay"
"That is random. But what is your name?"
"No, my name is Gay."
"OH"
AWKWARD SILENCE