Gay
Gay adjective - Having much high-spirited energy and movement.
Riot
Riot noun - Someone or something that is very funny.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Life's a goddamn laugh riot.Michael, a gay recovering alcoholic, along with friend and sometime lover Donald, is throwing a party for his buddy Harold's 32nd birthday.
Source: Theatre / The Boys in the Band -
Some felt this wouldn't even have occurred to someone in 1969—except the episode is set less than a year before a gay couple in Minnesota applied for a marriage license, and was also the year of the Stonewall Riot (the police action credited with starting the Gay Rights movement).
Source: Aluminum Christmas Trees - This film, based on the riot at New York City's Stonewall Inn that started the gay rights movement, was doomed to failure once director Roland Emmerich cast a heterosexual white male in the lead, then played extremely fast and extremely loose with the facts surrounding the event.
Source: Box Office Bomb / S Through Z
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