gay marry

See also: gay-marry

English

Back-formation from gay marriage.

gay marry (third-person singular simple present gay marries, present participle gay marrying, simple past and past participle gay married)

(transitive, nonstandard) To marry (a person of the same sex).
- 2009, anonymous author, Missed Connection with Every Lesbian Girl I've Ever Swooned Over - m4w‎:
  Heartache schmartache, I don't want to gay-marry you, oh sizzling Sapphite.
(intransitive) To marry a person of the same sex.
- 2004, Greg Wharton, Ian Philips, I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage‎, page 219:
  First, sex doesn't hover cutely over the ceremony, because everyone assumes gay-marrying types are the least-sexual gay people.
(transitive) To unite in a gay marriage; to unite in marriage to someone of the same sex.
- Schwarzenegger Basically Admits He's A Democrat
  Clearly the governor is angling for an administration job, which he'll accept once he's finished gay marrying the entire state of California.

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