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A-gay en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Short for A-list gay.

Meanings

1. (slang) An A-list gay; an affluent, well-connected, upwardly mobile gay man or woman.
   • The latter is long past its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s, while Marrakech continues to attract wealthy A-gays. 2003, Justin McGuinness, Footprint Morocco http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=ldBtziUKLRIC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=K8ZsVL04ipvY8FoPLVnUy0SFet4
   • The A-Gays could talk about whoever was tooting coke in the bathroom. The B-Gays, being largely decorative, were not expected to talk. 1998, Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City:
   • We who suffered the pain of playground exclusion now practice an enforced segregation with an effectiveness that designates certain members of our community as A-gays and marks the rest as inferior. 2003, Michael S Piazza, Queeries:

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