But it had another meaning before it meant happy. After the colonisation of the New World, tobacco came to England and smoking clubs opened. Men who spent their leisure time in these institutions, prefering the company of other men to that of their families became known as "gay men". They may or may not have actually been homosexuals, but the word gay was been associated with sausage fests from the beginning.
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