"Miss Furr and Miss Skeene"
This story about two lesbians, written in 1911, and published in Vanity Fair magazine in July 1923, is considered to be the origin of the use of the term "gay" for "homosexual", though it was not used in this sense in the story.
Geography and Plays (1922)
“You could wear the same outfit every single day and no guy - who isn't gay - will notice.”
Source: Suite Scarlett
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Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Op-Ed essay "In the Name of Politics", in The New York Times (30 March 2005) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/opinion/30danforth.html
Context: As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institution of marriage. Today it seems to be the other way around.
“Not many guys can get away with an outfit like that, but he can.”
Catch Phrases
“I'm gonna walk off wearing the outfit and I'm going to drive home in it.”
Describing what she will do with her Xena costume after the last day of filming — reported in Raymond A. Edel and Virginia Rohan (February 8, 2001) "People", The Record, p. A2.