fagazine

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US/fæɡəˈzin/US/ˈfæɡəzin/

noun

A magazine which focuses on gay issues and interests.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounfagazine (plural fagazines)

plural fagazines

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

    He was reading one of those little fagazines, those little gay rags, that there were white gay men in California dying because they were gay.

    2013, Sonja Mackenzie, Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 45
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    At the other extreme, the most distinctive of all the gay publications of the day were a pair of home-made 'fagazines' of slightly old-fashioned psychedelic design, printed on heavy stock in a rainbow of bright colours.

    1995, Ian Young, The Stonewall Experiment: A Gay Psychohistory, Cassell, →ISBN, page 64

    REM lead singer Michael Stipe, for example, is queer, not gay. “For me, queer describes something that’s more inclusive of the gray areas,” he told Butt, a pocket-sized Dutch “fagazine.” “It’s really about identity I think. The identity I’m comfortable with is queer because I just think it’s more inclusive.”

    2007 February 21, Joel Bleifuss, “A Politically Correct Lexicon”, in In These Times

    Synonyms: fag mag, fag rag

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA magazine which focuses on gay issues and interests.

Origin

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APA

fagazine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fagazine

MLA

“fagazine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fagazine. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fagazine,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fagazine.

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