A-gay

See also: agay

English

Etymology

Short for A-list gay.

Pronunciation

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Noun

A-gay (plural A-gays)

1. (LGBTQ, slang) An A-list gay; an affluent, well-connected, upwardly mobile gay man or woman.
   • 1998, Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City‎^[1]:

     The A-Gays could talk about whoever was tooting coke in the bathroom.
     The B-Gays, being largely decorative, were not expected to talk.

   • 2003, Justin McGuinness, Footprint Morocco [2]

     The latter is long past its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s, while Marrakech continues to attract wealthy A-gays.

   • 2003, Michael S Piazza, Queeries‎^[3]:

     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.

Anagrams

• Gaya