gaysploitation

English

Etymology

From gay +‎ -sploitation.

Noun

gaysploitation (uncountable)

1. The exploitation of gay people in the media (especially film and television).
   • 1980, Christopher Street, volume 5, page 25:

     Are we merely in the era of gaysploitation in film?

   • 2010, Jennifer Pozner, Reality Bites Back, page 51:

     That was still more airtime than was received by the ill-fated gaysploitation special Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay, which Fox touted as “a heterosexual male's worst nightmare: turning gay overnight.”

Hyponyms

• lezploitation

See also

• queersploitation