I. adjective
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a same-sex/gay marriage (= a marriage between two homosexual people, which is not legal in many places )
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a proposal to allow same-sex marriage in the state
gay/lesbian rights
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a gay rights campaigner
political/gay/animal rights etc activist
the gay community (= people who are homosexual )
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This part of the city has a large gay community.
the gay scene (= clubs and pubs where gay people go )
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He knew his way around the New York gay scene.
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■ ADVERB
openly
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He will become the most powerful openly gay man in the world.
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The group endorsed 32 openly gay and lesbian candidates in state and local races this year; 27 of them were elected.
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He continues to campaign for the right of Catholics to be openly gay .
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Barney Frank, D-Mass., one of three openly gay lawmakers.
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Overall, the number of openly gay psychologists remains low.
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Zingale also said he hopes for the appointment of an openly gay Cabinet secretary.
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And under the aegis of the Duke, a powerful protector, Strayhorn was able to live an openly gay life.
■ NOUN
activist
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At one point a furious gay activists delegation turned up.
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That same year, she supported gay activist Cleve Jones when he considered opposing Brown for his Assembly seat.
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He deserves better than to be criticised by gay activists with such a cheap shot.
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It took a couple of years to develop, but gay activists say they believe that storm has arrived.
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And that is what gay activists in more and more places are seeking.
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The 6-3 ruling was hailed by gay activists as a landmark in homosexual rights.
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These liberals, these feminists, these gay activists .
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The very behaviors that gay activists had spent years promoting seemed to have contained the seeds of disaster.
bar
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At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar .
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It is a shock when you see some one my size walk into a gay bar .
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Two men had jumped them, outside a gay bar .
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Many gay bars were, and are, recognized places for picking up partners for one-night stands.
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I was the first woman ever into one of the famous gay bars .
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Every major city has two gay bars , the Spike and the Eagle.
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There are some gay bars in Saigon.
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Most of these gay bars are just like ordinary servicemen bars except without girls.
character
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In recent years the soap genre has hosted a number of gay characters .
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Yes, there are already many minor gay characters on television.
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As usual in liberal dramas, the gay character is noble and articulate.
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I was behind the daring introduction of that sympathetic gay character named JuJuBes.
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The first gay characters appeared on the silent screen 70 years ago, when archly effeminate sissies were exploited for cheap laughs.
community
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Castells gives as an example the gay community in San Francisco.
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The White House announcement drew bitter reaction from the gay community .
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That's very important for the gay community to respect.
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The conventional wisdom in the gay community is that 10 percent of the adult population is gay or lesbian.
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Other identifications - whether with feminism, the gay community , independent activist organisations - are derided as bourgeois and self-limiting.
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If the device is found to be safe, Schatz predicts significant interest in the product within the gay community .
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This clause provoked considerable anger amongst the gay community and some concern amongst local authorities.
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Late last night, anxious police called a hastily arranged news conference to issue an urgent warning to the gay community .
couple
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A gay couple may wish to share a room.
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Clinton has opposed extending the legal protections and benefits of marriage to gay couples since 1992, Glynn said.
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Lesbian and gay couples should have these rights, too.
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Robin Williams plays Armand, the relatively butch half of a gay couple .
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Granted, gay couples are denied the basic rights that heterosexual married couples enjoy.
culture
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Consider two kinds of ambivalent transgressive reinscription within gay culture , camp and machismo.
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To recognize that the transformation of gay culture begins at home.
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But of course such differences have always been erotically invested, not least in lesbian and gay cultures .
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These standards are built right into gay culture , and operate in thousands of ways.
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One of the most basic ways to make gay culture more sustainable is to create an honored place for relationships and fidelity.
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But I do take my own role in the acceptance of gay culture in society as one with pride and responsibility.
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So perhaps another way to foster a more sustainable gay culture would be to create institutions that promote intergenerational interaction.
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Yet urban gay culture works against such regulation in many ways.
group
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Gerry: When I started with the organization in 1982 there were no Black or gay groups .
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Alistair took up with a well-off gay group on the Hill.
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Those countries where public attitudes are most tolerant are those where homosexuals are most visible, and gay groups most active.
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After he moved to Jersey, one year he held the banner of some New Jersey gay group .
liberation
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It was only in 1977 that I became even vaguely aware of gay liberation .
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It may seem odd, but this deviant definition of homosexuality contributed greatly to the rise of gay liberation .
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This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London.
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Far from being accidents, these things characterized the very foundation of what it supposedly meant to experience gay liberation .
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Lesbian and gay liberation is perceived as doing so, because liberation. as opposed to rights, threatens the position of the heterosexual family.
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The facts of male homosexuality are also endlessly misrepresented and confused by the homosexual women who often speak for gay liberation .
life
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Some needed only to know that we existed - that was enough for them to throw themselves wholeheartedly into the gay life .
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Their actions, setting and dialogue are sprinkled with touchstones of gay life .
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Perhaps Alistair was right: his gay life had been the exception rather than the rule.
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The gay life becomes a traumatic and life-changing obsession.
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And under the aegis of the Duke, a powerful protector, Strayhorn was able to live an openly gay life .
man
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As officially married couples, gay men and lesbians will be able to claim pension benefits if a partner dies.
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It has been estimated that in the early eighties the average infected gay man infected an average of five additional gay men.
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There were those - particularly gay men - who argued that there was no need for any gay politics at all.
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And some gay men have been known to borrow drugs from acquaintances who are HIV-positive.
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Are lesbians and gay men born or made?
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As gay men grow older they have little to connect them to the vibrancy and hope of a younger generation.
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A little voice deep within her asks if going there with five gay men is the best way to achieve this.
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The last outbreak of Hepatitis A in the city occurred in 1992 when the virus was localized among gay men .
marriage
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But they are wrong to see gay marriage as trivial or frivolous.
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Some polls show as many as 70 percent of respondents oppose gay marriage .
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Would gay marriage weaken the standard variety?
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He supports a ban on gay marriages .
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But it looks like Clinton has been grandstanding on the subject of gay marriage .
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Moving with unusual speed, the House is expected to approve on Friday a controversial bill to limit gay marriages .
movement
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Jeffrey: I like the idea of seeing the gay movement as an attitude of mind.
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The gay movement needs to make its case.
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This decision is both a success for your organisation and for the international lesbian and gay movement .
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We need a gay movement with international contacts, so that we can inform, stimulate and support each other.
people
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I think gay people have become a target group for people who no longer target racial minorities.
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This was an indication of those gay people who work at all levels of broadcasting.
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In addition, there are growing networks of gay religious organizations that provide places for gay people to express their spirituality.
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I probably knew about half a dozen gay people intimately.
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I think there are a lot of gay people in heavy metal -- everywhere.
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It's a mean place for anyone to live, but particularly bad for gay people .
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There was a lot of discrimination toward gay people , and others as well.
population
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Then in the eighties, as disease swept the gay population , perceptions began to change.
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Similar numbers were seen in other cities with large gay populations .
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Hepatitis B.. Far more dangerous was the growing epidemic of hepatitis B in the gay population .
world
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But it also had an unexpected psychological impact on the gay world itself.
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In the gay world , however, almost the opposite was the case.
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After Stonewall this process sharply accelerated, creating a radical new medical situation in the gay world .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gay and lesbian couples should be eligible for the same health benefits as married heterosexual couples.
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He didn't even realize that Elton John was gay !
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Kirkland is an especially popular figure in the gay community.
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the gay community
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The president's record with gay rights groups has been good.
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There are very few gay men on television.
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Thousands of people attended the Gay Pride march in Brighton last weekend.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a gay man I find your sudden input of gay advertising patronising.
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But once I got into this set of gay men, it took over my social life almost completely.
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Frankie, a pleasure-chasing group led by out-front gay men had become family entertainers.
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I went to my first gay pub.
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Many of the Catholics of this city are gay or lesbian citizens.
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The gay protagonist gets shot in the end.
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The White House announcement drew bitter reaction from the gay community.
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Yet in many urban gay male settings, life is segregated by age to an almost astonishing degree.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
allow
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I believe the three-ring version called the United States already allows gays and lesbians under the tent.
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Placard-wise, however, the gays have some way to go.
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The Labour movement might not be a home for lesbians and gays, but it was certainly no longer enemy territory.
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The prayers on behalf of lesbians and gays had been quietly halted a few months earlier.
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The sun burned with steady fury on the gaggle of gays at the Rambles in Central Park.
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We don't see gays being beaten to death in our country because of their sexuality.
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Yet gays turning to churches and other institutions for help all too often were told not to worry.