gender-vague

comparative more gender-vague · superlative most gender-vague · alternative gender vague

1. Of uncertain or ambiguous gender; not revealing gender or sexuality.

   Her gender-vague nickname of "Moe" suited not only her persona then, but it also fed into the modish androgyny with which the group became associated through Warhol.

   2006, Richard Witts, The Velvet Underground, page 35

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   Eskridge complicates the story's implications further by never revealing the gender of the narrator (who is Jo(e)'s director), either by name — it's the gender-vague though suggestive "Mars" — or by pronoun.

   2000, The New York Review of Science Fiction - Issues 137-148, page 15

   Performers who scrupulously stuck to gender-vague lyrics, refused to talk about their personal lives, and dithered about avoiding labels and identities, began to feel the pressure from their fans.

   2001, Larry Gross, Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America, →ISBN