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cisgay en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɪsˌɡeɪ/
• (US) audio

Etymology

From cis- + gay.

Meanings

1. (informal) Cisgender and gay.
   • A nation is considered progressive insofar as its gay population has access to same-sex marriage, can serve in the military, and can adopt children – mainly the experience of white cisgay men in the United States (Puar, 2013, 337). 2017, Ralph Haddad, "Queering the Occupation: Settler-Colonial Sexualities in the Era of Homonationalism", Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Volume 3, Number 1, Summer 2017, pages 111-112
   • Unfortunately, the film also falls into the trap of connecting a non-passing body with unavoidable consequences of violence in a scene in which [trans man] Lukas has to escape a rape attempt by one of his cis-gay colleagues. 2014, Wibke Straube, Trans Cinema and Its Exit Scapes: A Transfeminist Reading of Utiopian Sensibility and Gender Dissidence in Contemporary Film, page 127:
   • Thus, when I refer to phallocentrism in cisgay porn, I am being quite literal. 2017, Jian Neo Chen, “Trans Riot: Transmasculine of Colour Expressions and Embodiments in the Films of Christopher Lee”, in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, volume 4, number 3, page 305:

Forms

Coordinates

cishet

Hypernyms

cisqueer

Translations (1)

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