gayman
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
gayman (plural gaymen)
- (dated, rare) A gay man.
- 1989, Carter Heyward, Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God:
- In coming out , we do not know any more than others about how to live the implications of our lives as openly lesbian women or gaymen.
- 1990, Jack Fritscher, Some Dance to Remember:
- “You mean," January asked, “that gaymen don't want to fuck with gaymen?” She looked puzzled. “How utterly droll!” "Not if they can help it,” Kick said.
- 1992, Julia Penelope, Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory:
- The label, we are to understand, fixed gaymen in a “phase.”
- 1994, James B. Nelson, Sexuality and the Sacred: Sources for Theological Reflection, page 12:
- A historical reading of sexuality may make living as lesbians and gaymen more difficult, because we cannot plead for acceptance on the basis of being something we can't help and therefore of needing special sets of rights and understanding because we are homosexuals who didn't choose to be who we are.