fagazine

English

Etymology

Blend of fag + magazine.

Noun

fagazine (plural fagazines)

  1. (vulgar, offensive, derogatory) A magazine which focuses on gay issues and interests.
    • 1995, Ian Young, The Stonewall Experiment: A Gay Psychohistory, Cassell (1995), →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, Joel Bleifuss, "A Politically Correct Lexicon", In These Times, 21 February 2007:
      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.”
    • 2013, Sonja Mackenzie, Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic, Rutgers University Press (2013), →ISBN, page 45:
      He was reading one of those little fagazines, those little gay rags, that there were white gay men in California dying because they were gay.

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