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gaystream

gaystream noun: a homosexual mainstream.

Noun

gaystream (plural gaystreams)

  1. (attributive, often) A homosexual mainstream.
    • With money, influence, and good looks, they weren't quite mainstream, but part of the emerging gaystream, those targeted by the New York Times, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and marketers of the pantsuit.2011, Nick Krieger, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender, page 1
    • Can alterity and diversity be preserved in the gaystream era? Looking raises these questions and explores the tensions between queerness and assimilation.2019, Ava Laure Parsemain, The Pedagogy of Queer TV, page 171

Forms of gaystream

pluralgaystreams

Origin of gaystream

Blend of gay + mainstream.

Questions about gaystream

What does gaystream mean?
Gaystream means a homosexual mainstream.
What part of speech is gaystream?
Gaystream is a noun.
What is the plural of gaystream?
The plural of gaystream is gaystreams.

Words near gaystream in the dictionary

  1. gayspeak
  2. gaysploitation
  3. Gaystapo
  4. GayStation
  5. GayStations
  6. gaystream
  7. gaystreams
  8. Gaytan
  9. Gaytans
  10. gaytard
  11. gaytarded

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