{
  "id": "gay.sexual",
  "term": "gay",
  "sense": "sexual",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "gay",
  "domain": "sexual",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person who has love toward people of the same sex",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "love.emotional",
      "adult.person",
      "sex.biological",
      "toward.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "people who are emotionally attached through persistent care direct that bond toward others of the same biological sex",
    "novel_properties": [
      "same-sex emotional bonding",
      "directed affection based on sex",
      "social identity tied to orientation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Elton John publicly identified as gay and married David Furnish in 2014 under UK marriage law.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 'It Gets Better' project documented thousands of gay individuals sharing personal stories online since 2010.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Audre Lorde described her romantic relationships with women in her 1982 memoir 'Zami: A New Spelling of My Name'.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "property.attribute",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "lesbian.sexual"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "gay",
    "gays"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'sex.biological' and 'toward.spatial' to align with definition. Definition remains accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-gay.sexual"
}