Quite Regularly Gay

Part minimalist round, part Gilbert and Sullivan, this lively piece is a setting of an excerpt from a Gertrude Stein essay that is believed to contain the first modern literature usage of the word "gay" in the context of homosexuality.

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Gertrude Stein said: "A sound, a whole sound is not separation, a whole sound is in an order." "Quite Regularly Gay" is indeed "in an order."

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Women & Trebles

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Moderate

Quite Regularly Gay

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

They were regularly gay. They were gay every day.
They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and
 they had been every day regularly gay.

To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that
 they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every
 day at the same time after they had been regularly gay.

 They were regular in being gay,they learned little things
 that are things in being gay, they learned many little things
 that are things in being gay, they were gay every day, they
 were regular,they were gay, they were gay the same length
 of time every day,they were gay, they were quite regularly gay.

She came to using many ways in being gay, she came to use
 every way in being gay. She went on living where many
 were cultivating something and she was gay, she had used
 every way to be gay.