cisgay

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/ˈsɪsˌɡeɪ/

adjective

Cisgender and gay.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivecisgay (comparative more cisgay, superlative most cisgay)

comparative more cisgay · superlative most cisgay · alternative cis-gay

  1. informalCisgender and gay.

    Thus, when I refer to phallocentrism in cisgay porn, I am being quite literal.

    2017, Jian Neo Chen, “Trans Riot: Transmasculine of Colour Expressions and Embodiments in the Films of Christopher Lee”, in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, volume 4, number 3, page 305
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    Unfortunately, the film also falls into the trap of connecting a non-passing body with unavoidable consequences of violence in a scene in which [trans man] Lukas has to escape a rape attempt by one of his cis-gay colleagues.

    2014, Wibke Straube, Trans Cinema and Its Exit Scapes: A Transfeminist Reading of Utiopian Sensibility and Gender Dissidence in Contemporary Film, page 127

    A nation is considered progressive insofar as its gay population has access to same-sex marriage, can serve in the military, and can adopt children – mainly the experience of white cisgay men in the United States (Puar, 2013, 337).

    2017, Ralph Haddad, "Queering the Occupation: Settler-Colonial Sexualities in the Era of Homonationalism", Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Volume 3, Number 1, Summer 2017, pages 111-112

Origin

Translations

French cisgay
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