How to Use gay in a Sentence

gay

adjective
  • The band was playing a gay tune.
  • Stop being mean girls, and that goes for gay people, too.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 7 June 2023
  • Among the Twitter users who slammed Jackson was George Takei, who is gay.
    Alexandra Del Rosario Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Of course, but guess who else had a problem with gay people at the time: the rest of America.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 June 2023
  • One season in, the first publicly gay head coach is figuring out how to win, on the court and off.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Many were thrown out by their parents for being gay or trans.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Xiyadie creates very large, complex scenes of gay male love.
    Vulture, 25 Apr. 2023
  • There is no better time, as Leonard Bernstein once put it, to glitter and be gay.
    Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
  • After an ugly post-show breakup, Colton came out as gay in 2021.
    Madeline Boardman, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2024
  • At the time, pundits blamed older voters who didn’t want to vote for a gay love story.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Human rights groups and gay rights groups have faced a major crackdown.
    Terence McGinley, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Muñoz, who is gay, had Biden serve as his wedding officiant in 2017.
    Reid J. Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • Martin, who started as a member of the boy band Menudo before his rise on the Billboard charts, came out as gay in 2010.
    Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Robinson is quick to point out that there have always been gay bishops in the Episcopal Church.
    Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Here’s a picture of him on a motorcycle being a gay icon.
    Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 21 June 2023
  • An openly gay Black man did not easily fit in — even in the heart of a movement for civil rights and justice.
    Valerie Wu, Variety, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The younger actress played Casey, the franchise's first-ever gay character.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 10 July 2023
  • Charlie, nerdy and awkward and sweet, was outed last year at school and bullied for being gay.
    Laura Zornosa, Time, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The gay men were breezy, bossy, confident; the straight men were generally hapless and abashed.
    Mark Harris Rf. Alvarez, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The video had circulated in a private group chat of gay men in politics.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
  • And fear is keeping gay and transgender patients from health clinics, which are obliged by the law to report them to the police.
    David Segal, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The trek is the book’s dark, truthful center, casting a shadow of gay shame and survivor’s guilt that takes Justin and his sister decades to see clearly.
    Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Mackillop, who is gay and the show's top fundraiser, also performs in it, wearing a jockstrap.
    Leanne Italie, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Dasgupta himself is a gay man who lives with his partner in the United Kingdom.
    Aditi Sangal, CNN, 4 June 2023
  • Three’s Company, about two women living with a man who pretends to be gay.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
  • With verve, Domingo digs into the experience of a Black gay man in the racist and homophobic 1960s.
    Leanne Italie, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Many of them were gay men being drugged and robbed, in a series of disturbing incidents that began two years ago.
    Steve Osunsami, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • It was read by council members Anthony Martin and Beach Pace, the first openly gay woman to serve on the city council.
    oregonlive, 4 June 2023
  • In this case, there’s a gay man with crutches and a millionaire of short stature mixed into the ensemble, both (rightly) treated as no big deal.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
  • According to the lawsuit, the student was bullied by other kids for having gay parents and Kalumbula did not intervene.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2024

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