fag rag

English

Noun

fag rag (plural fag rags)

1. (vulgar, offensive, derogatory) A magazine which focuses on gay issues and interests.
   • 1992, Louise Rafkin, Queer and Pleasant Danger: Writing Out My Life, Cleis Press, →ISBN, page 148:

     For those of you out-of-the-know, Blueboy is a fag rag on the nice end of the spectrum (opposite Manmeat.)

   • 1997, John Patrick, Come Again, STARbooks press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 110:

     He handed her the magazine, and she recognized it as one of her brother Herb's gay publications which he kept hidden in a box under his bed, thinking no one knew about his stash of fag rags.

   • 2011, Karl Andersson, Gay Man's Worst Friend: The Story of Destroyer Magazine, Entartetes Leben (2011; original Swedish book published 2010), →ISBN, page 50:

     I ask my readers to send their old “fag rags” to me instead of burning them, since I argue that these magazines are part of our gay cultural heritage.

Synonyms

• fagazine, fag mag