<b>Oliver Burkeman: </b>The term is the spotlight this week thanks to Sony, which, as well as lnchg a rerd label dited to gay artists, is triallg a natnal rad show targetg gay and 'gay-adjacent' listeners. But what do really mean?
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- GAY ADJACENT
- GAY ADJACENT
- ARE YOU GAY-ADJACENT?
- GAY ADJACENT ED MEANG
- SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
- GAY ACCENT
GAY ADJACENT
Gay adjacent n scribe a straight person who has terts or behavrs stereotyped as gay—very often meant a good way, like not beg a total slob or you scerely dig Carly Rae Jpen. * gay adjacent define *
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What do gay adjacent mean?
GAY ADJACENT
adj., posssg many of the mannerisms and terts tradnally associated wh gay people while not personally intifyg as gay." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * gay adjacent define *
Gay adjacent n scribe a straight person who has terts or behavrs stereotyped as gay—very often meant a good way, like not beg a total slob or you scerely dig Carly Rae Jpen.
ARE YOU GAY-ADJACENT?
* gay adjacent define *
It n also refer to straight people who enjoy gay media and culture as well as support gay rights.
GAY ADJACENT ED MEANG
A prevly anonymo IRS whistleblower ttifyg about an vtigatn to Hunter Bin me forward Wednday, intifyg as a gay Democrat. * gay adjacent define *
jt gay enough. Where do gay adjacent e om? This term gay adjacent appears prt at least by a 1997 issue of the LGBTQ-tert magaze The Advote.
A review of the then-released film LA Confintial characteriz straight actors Rsell Crowe, Guy Pearce, and sce-out-of-the-closet Kev Spacey as gay-adjacent bee they had taken on gay rol cema. Bet you didn’t know Rsell Crowe played an adorable young gay man lookg for love the 1994 Atralian dramedy The Sum of Us?
SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer. * gay adjacent define *
Well, that se, we uld cheer you on and say you’re gay adjacent. The Advote notably took to gay adjacent aga 2002, though expand s meang.
GAY ACCENT
In an terview wh Steven Hill (the hunky bartenr on The Real World who stggled to keep his top on while at work), wrer Chuck Kim lled him gay adjacent, implyg Hill uld attract more gay viewers to the show. The term was mostly ed by gay publitns to refer to straight people who had some “bsh” wh gay culture until a 2005 broadst of The Daily Show helped brg to a wir dience. Corrponnt Stephen Colbert rpond to Christian fundamentalist, who claimed Hurrine Katra was sent to punish gays, by notg New Orleans’ heart of gay culture, the French Quarter, was by and large spared: “The lson of Katra is: God lov gays, but hat the gay-adjacent.
Exampl of gay adjacent. Straight alli and iends, so you're not left out:#gayadjacent.