Answer: GAY
GAY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 113 times.
Referring Clues:
- ___ Men's Health Crisis
 - In high spirits
 - "The Beggar's Opera" writer
 - "The ___ Divorcee"
 - Like some holiday apparel
 - Chipper
 - Applicant for a civil union, maybe
 - John who wrote "She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd"
 - Like some carol apparel
 - Not straight
 - Party to many a civil union
 - Frolicsome
 - Like the Log Cabin Republicans
 - Jocund
 - ___ Head (Martha's Vineyard town)
 - Cheery
 - Not straight, in a way
 - "Honor Thy Father" author Talese
 - In a lighthearted mood
 - Like the 1890s, supposedly
 - Like Paree, in song
 - Like apparel donned in a Christmas carol
 - Like some modern-day marriages
 - Like civil union members
 - Part of LGBT
 - Lively
 - Happy
 - Like the 1890s
 - Enola Tibbets' middle name
 - "The Beggar's Opera" author
 - Cheerful
 - In a merry mood
 - Like old Paree
 - "The --- Divorcee"
 - Nineties descriptor
 - Writer Talese
 - "Don we now our ___ apparel ..."
 - "Don we now our ___ apparel"
 - Full of merriment
 - In a happy mood
 - High-spirited
 - Coming-out party?
 - Merry
 - Pride parade participant
 - Like some Christmas apparel
 - Joyful
 - ___ Nineties
 - Kind of pride
 - Author Talese
 - Brightly colored
 - Prideful, perhaps?
 - Festive
 - Ben- ___
 - Young's partner
 - John who wrote "The Beggar's Opera"
 - Like "Deck the Halls" apparel
 - Like apparel in a carol
 - Last name of a famous plane
 - Like the apparel donned in "Deck the Halls"
 - Queer
 - Like the N.B.A.'s Jason Collins, notably
 - Kind of marriage
 - Happy and carefree
 - Sprightly
 - Like the out crowd?
 - The ___ Nineties
 - Like the apparel in a certain Christmas carol
 - ___ marriage
 - See 36-Across
 - A British police officer charged a man when he called the officer's horse this
 - Blithe
 - The G in LGBT
 - Part of L.G.B.T.
 - "Deck the Halls" descriptor
 - Feeling mirthful
 - Breezy
 - The "G" of L.G.B.T.
 - Part of LGBTQ
 - Like "Paree," in song
 - Carefree
 - Part of L.G.B.T.Q.
 - Happy as a lark
 - LGBTQ part
 - What the 1890s were called
 - The "G" of LGBT
 - The "G" of L.G.B.T.Q.+
 - Part of LGBTQIA+
 - Word before "bar" or "pride"
 - ___ Liberation Front
 - "Hunger" memoirist Roxane ___
 - The "G" of LGBTQIA+
 - ___ rights, cause long championed by the Mattachine Society
 - Part of LGBTQ+
 - ___ pride
 - Like some apparel, in song
 - The G in LGBTQIA+
 - "We're Having ___ Sex" (Ashley Gavin podcast)
 - Like many characters in queer fan fiction
 - The "G" of LGBTQ+
 - "Bad Feminist" writer Roxane
 - Like the main characters in "Fire Island"
 - Like most of the characters in the play "The Inheritance"
 - Like Waylon Smithers in the Simpsons
 - The "G" in GLAAD
 - Like Alan Turning and Alvin Alley
 - Rhyme for "away" in "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
 - Like characters in a yaoi manga
 - The "G" of PFLAG
 - Like some Pride Month celebrants
 - Like many characters in "The L Word"
 - Like much limestone
 - The "G" in LGBTQIA+
 - Identity celebrated during Pride Month
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 23, 2025
 - New York Times - August 04, 2025
 - USA Today - July 30, 2025
 - LA Times - July 29, 2025
 - USA Today - May 19, 2025
 - New York Times - March 02, 2025
 - LA Times - January 27, 2025
 - USA Today - January 09, 2025
 - LA Times - September 16, 2024
 - USA Today - June 06, 2024
 - USA Today - May 17, 2024
 - LA Times - May 14, 2024
 - New York Times - April 21, 2024
 - USA Today - February 19, 2024
 - USA Today - September 21, 2023
 - LA Times - May 16, 2023
 - LA Times - April 27, 2023
 - LA Times - April 14, 2023
 - LA Times - February 13, 2023
 - LA Times - November 16, 2022
 
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