A-gay

noun

An A-list gay; an affluent, well-connected, upwardly mobile gay man or woman.

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Meanings

nounA-gay (plural A-gays)

plural A-gays

  1. slangAn A-list gay; an affluent, well-connected, upwardly mobile gay man or woman.

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

    2003, Justin McGuinness, Footprint Morocco http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=ldBtziUKLRIC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=K8ZsVL04ipvY8FoPLVnUy0SFet4
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    The A-Gays could talk about whoever was tooting coke in the bathroom. The B-Gays, being largely decorative, were not expected to talk.

    1998, Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

    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.

    2003, Michael S Piazza, Queeries

Origin

Short for A-list gay.

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APA

A-gay. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/A-gay

MLA

“A-gay.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/A-gay. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “A-gay,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/A-gay.

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