The Gay Gordons is a nickname of the Gordon Highlanders, a former infantry regiment of the British army. It is also applied to:
- Gay Gordons (solitaire), a form of the card game Solitaire (or Patience)
- Gay Gordons (dance), a popular ceilidh dance
- The Gay Gordons (musical), a 1907 musical comedy with book by Seymour Hicks and lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse.
Note that "Gay" in this phrase has the Scots meaning, "extraordinary" rather than the more commonly used English meanings.
Famous quotes containing the word gay:
“The gay world that flourished in the half-century between 1890 and the beginning of the Second World War, a highly visible, remarkably complex, and continually changing gay male world, took shape in New York City.... It is not supposed to have existed.”
—George Chauncey, U.S. educator, author. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, p. 1, Basic Books (1994)