a male who acts slightly feme but not neccsary means that they are gay." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn
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* gay fairy meaning *
2) A gay man who acts more stereotypilly feme than most straight women. 2) A ually rogatory term for a gay male, pecially one who is flamboyant and acts more "feme" than a woman (as if there were somethg wrong wh beg feme). *An offensive word toward a homosexual.
Gay Fairi: When and Why. But somewhere down the list is a gay man. But there are, fact, a number of works of cultural history that make somethg of the fairy = gay nnectn.
The Longer Oxford English Dictnary has, as s fifth and fal meang for fairy: ‘A male homosexual. But how much earlier did ‘fairy’ mean homosexual?