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Gay as Paint is a bygone term that originally was used to describe something that had been painted in bright vivid colors (when gay meant bright, vivacious and sparkling before its association with [homosexuals]). Thus, to be gay as paint meant something was as "gay (bright) as paint...made it possible" Jacqueline Onassis has been quoted using that term to describe Truman Capote. In a [conversation] she had with Joan Kennedy, the latter asked if Capote was gay... Jackie replied, "He's so gay, he's gay as paint." By then the term had morphed to describe flamboyant [homosexuals] in a tongue-in-cheek nod to the reframing of gay as a homosexual term.
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