gender-vague

See also: gendervague

English

Alternative forms

• gender vague

Adjective

gender-vague (comparative more gender-vague, superlative most gender-vague)

1. Of uncertain or ambiguous gender; not revealing gender or sexuality.
   • 2000, The New York Review of Science Fiction - Issues 137-148, page 15:

     Eskridge complicates the story's implications further by never revealing the gender of the narrator (who is Jo(e)'s director), either by name — it's the gender-vague though suggestive "Mars" — or by pronoun.

   • 2001, Larry Gross, Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America, →ISBN:

     Performers who scrupulously stuck to gender-vague lyrics, refused to talk about their personal lives, and dithered about avoiding labels and identities, began to feel the pressure from their fans.

   • 2006, Richard Witts, The Velvet Underground, page 35:

     Her gender-vague nickname of "Moe" suited not only her persona then, but it also fed into the modish androgyny with which the group became associated through Warhol.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gender-vague.

Usage notes

• Unlike genderqueer, which refers to a gender identity that is neither male nor female, gender-vague is used in cases where the gender may be clearly male or female, but is simply not revealed.
• Contrast gendervague, which does refer to a gender identity.

See also

• androgynous