is for the Happy Gay.  Emphatic assertions of homosexuals' psychological health became a highly unconventional form of propaganda very early on in the gay rights movement, which sought to repudiate commonly held opinions that gay people were always unhappy and maladjusted, lonely old queens slumped over bars sobbing into Daiquiris and plunging off cliffs.  The conditions under which homosexuals have been oppressed are so unusual that something as subjective and intimate as our peace of mind can actually be appropriated as a form of propaganda, a way of bestowing on the homosexual a clean bill of psychological health.  Spontaneous effusions of joyfulness attesting to how good our sexual orientation makes us feel inside form a mainstay of gay propaganda which assigns political meanings to things as elusive as emotions, transforming the state of contentment into an unlikely expression of rebellion and defiance.  Gay propaganda often makes political points through a form of emotional exhibitionism, through ritualistic demonstrations of euphoria.