gayhood

English

Etymology

From gay +‎ -hood.

Noun

gayhood (uncountable)

1. The state, condition, or quality of being gay; gayness.
   • 2001, Alexis Rodriguez, Queer Journey:

     For some men, the leap into gayhood was the best thing that ever happened to their lives. For others, they've leaped into a whirlpool of pain, anguish, sorrow and despair.

   • 2004, Baratunde Rafig Thurston, Better Than Crying:

     In response, homosexuals have drafted a policy that could ban priests from the gayhood.

   • 2007, Bruce Benderson, Sex and Isolation:

     That was more than twenty years ago, but by his writing (not only his shoes), Bruce is still the epitome of cool, dangerous gayhood.

   • 2009, Steven Bereznai, Gay and Single... Forever?:

     [...] I'm now looking to the '70s to help me start disentangling the overly enmeshed states of gayhood and gay couplehood and to stop thinking of them as one and the same.

See also

• gaydom
• straighthood

Anagrams

• Haygood