` :Seanifer, the source you cited doesn't state that gay never meant happy or cheerful. It states, ``It really didn’t just mean 'happy' and 'lighthearted' even from way before.`` It's stating that it never only meant happy or cheerful, and that it always had a sexual  connotation to it. But like Rivertorch stated, it's not a reliable source for that information and is not a reliable source at all by Wikipedia standards. Many reliable sources state that one of the definitions of gay is happy, and that ``happy`` is what the term originally meant. We'd need a reliable source (by Wikipedia standards) to support what the source you cited states...before adding such information to this article.   `