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fagazine

/fæɡəˈzin/

fagazine noun: a magazine which focuses on gay issues and interests.

Noun

fagazine (plural fagazines)

  1. (derogatory, offensive, slang, vulgar) A magazine which focuses on gay issues and interests.
    • At the other extreme, the most distinctive of all the gay publications of the day were a pair of home-made 'fagazines' of slightly old-fashioned psychedelic design, printed on heavy stock in a rainbow of bright colours.1995, Ian Young, The Stonewall Experiment: A Gay Psychohistory, Cassell, →ISBN, page 64
    • REM lead singer Michael Stipe, for example, is queer, not gay. “For me, queer describes something that’s more inclusive of the gray areas,” he told Butt, a pocket-sized Dutch “fagazine.” “It’s really about identity I think. The identity I’m comfortable with is queer because I just think it’s more...2007 February 21, Joel Bleifuss, “A Politically Correct Lexicon”, in In These Times
    Synonyms:
    fag mag, fag rag

Examples of fagazine in a sentence

  • “For me, queer describes something that’s more inclusive of the gray areas,” he told Butt, a pocket-sized Dutch “fagazine.” “It’s really about identity I think.2007 February 21, Joel Bleifuss, “A Politically Correct Lexicon”, in In These Times:
  • He was reading one of those little fagazines, those little gay rags, that there were white gay men in California dying because they were gay.2013, Sonja Mackenzie, Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 45:

Synonyms of fagazine

Forms of fagazine

pluralfagazines

Origin of fagazine

Blend of fag + magazine.

Questions about fagazine

What does fagazine mean?
Fagazine means a magazine which focuses on gay issues and interests.
How do you use fagazine in a sentence?
“For me, queer describes something that’s more inclusive of the gray areas,” he told Butt, a pocket-sized Dutch “fagazine.” “It’s really about identity I think.
What part of speech is fagazine?
Fagazine is a noun.
How do you pronounce fagazine?
Fagazine is pronounced /fæɡəˈzin/ (US).
What is the plural of fagazine?
The plural of fagazine is fagazines.

Words near fagazine in the dictionary

  1. fagaceous
  2. Fagan
  3. Fagan inspection
  4. Fagan inspections
  5. Fagatogo
  6. fagazine
  7. fagazines
  8. fagboy
  9. fagboys
  10. fagbutt
  11. fagbutts

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