08-31-2012, 09:10 PM
Gay Paree (Gay Paris) is such a sense for the word that you described here above, Pip. I think it's a reference to the supposed ''naughtiness'' of French sex life... and how liberal it seemed to more uptight people. It is, in no way, a reference to homosexual life, however. I guess we could say that gay was a synonym for liberal or liberated, at the time.