A-gay

From Fresh Dictionary

English

Noun

A-gay (plural A-gays)

1. (gay slang) Short for "A-list gay"; an affluent, well-connected, upwardly mobile gay man or woman.

Quotations

• 1998, Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City [1]

  The A-Gays could talk about whoever was tooting coke in the bathroom.

  The B-Gays, being largely decorative, were not expected to talk.

• 2003, Justin McGuinness, Footprint Morocco [2]

  The latter is long past its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s, while Marrakech continues to attract wealthy A-gays.

• 2003, Michael S Piazza, Queeries [3]

  We who suffered the pain of playground exclusion now practice an enforced segregation with an effectiveness that designates certain members of our community as A-gays and marks the rest as inferior.