gaystream

English

Etymology

Blend of gay +‎ mainstream

Noun

gaystream (plural gaystreams)

1. (often attributive) A homosexual mainstream.
   • 2011, Nick Krieger, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender, page 1:

     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.

   • 2019, Ava Laure Parsemain, The Pedagogy of Queer TV, page 171:

     Can alterity and diversity be preserved in the gaystream era? Looking raises these questions and explores the tensions between queerness and assimilation.