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Adjective
gender-vague (comparative more gender-vague, superlative most gender-vague)
- Of uncertain or ambiguous gender; not revealing gender or sexuality.
2000, The New York Review of Science Fiction - Issues 137-148, page 15:Eskridge complicates the story's implications further by never revealing the gender of the narrator (who is Jo(e)'s director), either by name — it's the gender-vague though suggestive "Mars" — or by pronoun.
2001, Larry Gross, Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America, →ISBN:Performers who scrupulously stuck to gender-vague lyrics, refused to talk about their personal lives, and dithered about avoiding labels and identities, began to feel the pressure from their fans.
2006, Richard Witts, The Velvet Underground, page 35:Her gender-vague nickname of "Moe" suited not only her persona then, but it also fed into the modish androgyny with which the group became associated through Warhol.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gender-vague.
Usage notes
- Unlike genderqueer, which refers to a gender identity that is neither male nor female, gender-vague is used in cases where the gender may be clearly male or female, but is simply not revealed.
- Contrast gendervague, which does refer to a gender identity.
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