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Etymology edit

gay +‎ -sploitation.

Noun edit

gaysploitation (uncountable)

  1. The exploitation of gay people in the media (especially film and television).
    • 1980, Christopher Street, volume 5, page 25:
      Are we merely in the era of gaysploitation in film?
    • 2010, Jennifer Pozner, Reality Bites Back, page 51:
      That was still more airtime than was received by the ill-fated gaysploitation special Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay, which Fox touted as “a heterosexual male's worst nightmare: turning gay overnight.”

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