gayface
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gayface (usually uncountable, plural gayfaces)
- (rare, slang) An obvious, apparent, or stereotypical appearance of homosexuality based on a person's countenance, often characterized by effeminacy in males and masculinity in females.
- Antonym: straightface
- he has gayface
- Details, Volume 27, Issues 7-9
- Not just because of his famously homoerotic sonnets but because Shakespeare seems to have had-let's be blunt here-a serious case of gayface.
- (rare) The practice in which a straight person portrays a caricature of a gay person.