fag rag

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English

Noun

fag rag (plural fag rags)

  1. (slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) 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.

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