fag rag

plural fag rags

1. derogatoryoffensiveslangvulgarA magazine which focuses on gay issues and interests.

   For those of you out-of-the-know, Blueboy is a fag rag on the nice end of the spectrum (opposite Manmeat.)

   1992, Louise Rafkin, Queer and Pleasant Danger: Writing Out My Life, Cleis Press, →ISBN, page 148

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   He handed her the magazine, and she recognized it as one of her brother Herb's gay publications which he kept hidden in a box under his bed, thinking no one knew about his stash of fag rags.

   1997, John Patrick, Come Again, STARbooks press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 110

   I ask my readers to send their old “fag rags” to me instead of burning them, since I argue that these magazines are part of our gay cultural heritage.

   2011, Karl Andersson, Gay Man's Worst Friend: The Story of Destroyer Magazine, Entartetes Leben (2011; original Swedish book published 2010), page 50

   Synonyms: fagazine, fag mag