re-gay

English

Etymology

re- +‎ gay

Verb

re-gay (third-person singular simple present re-gays, present participle re-gaying, simple past and past participle re-gayed)

(uncommon) To cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to be associated once again with gay people. [popularized in the 1990s]
- 2002, Simon Watney, Imagine Hope, page 189:
  This is why AIDS simply had to be re-gayed.

Related terms

gay
de-gay

Anagrams

gayer, Geary, ragey, yager, Yager, Garey, grey-A, gyrae

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