gaycrat
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[edit]gaycrat (plural gaycrats)
- (rare, historical, chiefly derogatory) An activist who attempts to effect gay rights through the Democratic Party.
- 1978 December 16, John Paul Hudson, “In Memoriam”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 21, page 5:
- For the hysterical, homoerotiphobic ire which has been building up, in the form of rejection via referenda, as well as in acts of violence against individuals […] is principally focused now on gay radicals, socialists, communists, prison activists, and other not-so-easily-categorized mavericks of the Lavender Left. […] The tidy Gaycrats, conformists and ostensibly comfortable Closet Queens of our land do not generally arouse the same kind of concentrated fear and loathing as do those who are blatant, flagrant, and underdog-defending.
- 1992 March 15, Arnie Kantrowitz, “Letter to the Queer Generation”, in New York Quarterly, number 20:
- For all the accusations that have been heaped upon the "gaycrat" reformers of the 70s, it should be pointed out that all of the concrete signs of progress in our movement—repeal of sodomy statutes, changes in city and state anti-discrimination laws, bringing our faces out from behind potted palms that used to obscure them on television shows, fairer housing practices, the opening of public accommodations, the proliferation of a gay press, the advent of gay studies—can be attributed to gays.
- 1994, David Thorstad, "The Death Of Gay Liberation?", quoted by Roy Radow in bit.listserv.gaynet[1]
- Hoping to appease the Christian right and the Clinton administration, gaycrats from Barney Frank on down join Jesse Helms in calling on the International Lesbian and Gay Association to expel the North American Man/Boy Love Association the only U.S. group active in the ILGA for more than a decade. But heterosexual supremacists object to all varieties of homosexuality, not just this or that subgroup.