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Gaysoc

Gaysoc noun: a club or society, especially in a university, that promotes and supports the needs of homosexuals.

Noun

Gaysoc (plural Gaysocs)

  1. A club or society, especially in a university, that promotes and supports the needs of homosexuals.
    • Assuming that there are places of higher education there will usually be a polytechnic or university gaysoc. The potential size of a gaysoc in terms of numbers of students is probably hundreds, but this will not be reflected in the actual attendance at meetings. It may still be more difficult to...1981, John Hart, Diane Richardson, The theory and practice of homosexuality
    • In 1969 the Stonewall riot in New York saw the birth of a new gay cultural movement that quickly affected England: the Gay Rights lobbies, the GaySoc in the universities, the flood of pro-gay literature.2006, Terry Brown, Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality

Examples of Gaysoc in a sentence

  • Assuming that there are places of higher education there will usually be a polytechnic or university gaysoc.1981, John Hart, Diane Richardson, The theory and practice of homosexuality:
  • I also joined Gaysoc, partly out of respect for a close friend (and former boyfriend) who had come out as gay, partly because we had a gay president.2010, Kirsten Hears, Oi! What about us?, as quoted in Bob Cant and Susan Hemmings (editors), Radical Records: Thirty Years of Lesbian and...

Forms of Gaysoc

pluralGaysocs
alternative formgaysoc
alternative formGaySoc

Questions about Gaysoc

What does Gaysoc mean?
Gaysoc means a club or society, especially in a university, that promotes and supports the needs of homosexuals.
How do you use Gaysoc in a sentence?
Assuming that there are places of higher education there will usually be a polytechnic or university gaysoc.
What part of speech is Gaysoc?
Gaysoc is a noun.
What is the plural of Gaysoc?
The plural of Gaysoc is Gaysocs.

Words near Gaysoc in the dictionary

  1. gays
  2. gays up
  3. gaysian
  4. gaysians
  5. gayslop
  6. Gaysoc
  7. Gaysocs
  8. gaysome
  9. gaysomeness
  10. gayspeak
  11. gaysploitation

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