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- uncountableThe state, condition, or quality of being gay; gayness.
In response, homosexuals have drafted a policy that could ban priests from the gayhood.
2004, Baratunde Rafig Thurston, Better Than Crying3 more examples
For some men, the leap into gayhood was the best thing that ever happened to their lives. For others, they've leaped into a whirlpool of pain, anguish, sorrow and despair.
2001, Alexis Rodriguez, Queer JourneyThat was more than twenty years ago, but by his writing (not only his shoes), Bruce is still the epitome of cool, dangerous gayhood.
2007, Bruce Benderson, Sex and Isolation[...] I'm now looking to the '70s to help me start disentangling the overly enmeshed states of gayhood and gay couplehood and to stop thinking of them as one and the same.
2009, Steven Bereznai, Gay and Single... Forever?
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gayhood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gayhood
“gayhood.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gayhood. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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