fagazine
English
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edit- (General American) IPA(key): /fæɡəˈzin/, /ˈfæɡəzin/
Noun
editfagazine (plural fagazines)
- (slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) A magazine which focuses on gay issues and interests.
- 1995, Ian Young, The Stonewall Experiment: A Gay Psychohistory, Cassell, →ISBN, page 64:
- At the other extreme, the most distinctive of all the gay publications of the day were a pair of home-made 'fagazines' of slightly old-fashioned psychedelic design, printed on heavy stock in a rainbow of bright colours.
- 2007 February 21, Joel Bleifuss, “A Politically Correct Lexicon”, in In These Times:
- REM lead singer Michael Stipe, for example, is queer, not gay. “For me, queer describes something that’s more inclusive of the gray areas,” he told Butt, a pocket-sized Dutch “fagazine.” “It’s really about identity I think. The identity I’m comfortable with is queer because I just think it’s more inclusive.”