Meanings
plural gaystreams
- attributiveoftenA homosexual mainstream.
Can alterity and diversity be preserved in the gaystream era? Looking raises these questions and explores the tensions between queerness and assimilation.
2019, Ava Laure Parsemain, The Pedagogy of Queer TV, page 1711 more example
With money, influence, and good looks, they weren't quite mainstream, but part of the emerging gaystream, those targeted by the New York Times, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and marketers of the pantsuit.
2011, Nick Krieger, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender, page 1
Origin
Blend of gay + mainstream.
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