Talk:gayism

RFV discussion: February–April 2023

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gayism

Sense 2: "the promotion of homosexuality". Equinox ◑ 19:07, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

RFV Failed. Ioaxxere (talk) 23:09, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Aha! After realizing that this might have been formed/used like transgenderism, I've found cites of it and added them to the citations page. In fairness or full disclosure, since it's pertinent to the question of whether things are being failed hastily or without searching for them, I must point out that two cites of this sense were the first two cites that turned up when I did a Google Books search for the term, google books:"gayism". Some uses of the term don't clearly distinguish the "promotion"/"ideology" and "homosexuality" senses (perhaps because the users don't distinguish between the concepts) and the citations can't cleanly be assigned to one or the other, but enough cites are clearly using this for a supposed ideology a la transgenderism that I think such a sense is citable; wording might be modelled on that other entry. It's derogatory. (Interestingly, whereas the people talking about transgenderism seem to be Western and white, many uses of gayism seem to come from Africans; I suppose Western homophobes already had the phrase gay agenda.) BTW I've long suspected that such a sense also exists for homosexualism (see its talk page), and corresponding senses may exist for the -ists. - -sche (discuss) 02:35, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

So, I've restored the sense (cited). - -sche (discuss) 22:25, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

RFV-passed. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 12:06, 11 April 2023 (UTC)