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gay men

gay men is the plural of gay man.

Meaning of gay man

Noun

gay man (plural gay men)

  1. A homosexual man, a man who is exclusively sexually or romantically attracted to other men. (This entry is a translation hub.)
    • "A gay man loves and desires other men, and a lesbian desires and loves other women," explains Sky Gilbert, a drag queen. "This defines the existential state of being gay."2021, Andrew Sullivan, Out on a Limb, edition 1, page 482

Questions about gay men

What is gay men the plural of?
Gay men is the plural of gay man.

Words near gay men in the dictionary

  1. gay marriages
  2. gay married
  3. gay marries
  4. gay marry
  5. gay marrying
  6. gay men
  7. gay neighborhood
  8. gay neighborhoods
  9. gay neighbourhood
  10. Gay Nineties
  11. gay old time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gay men (page history and authors); gay man (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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