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gaycrat

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An activist who attempts to effect gay rights through the Democratic Party.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory, historical, rare

Examples

  • 1994, David Thorstad, "The Death Of Gay Liberation?", quoted by Roy Radow in bit.listserv.gaynethttps://groups.google.com/g/bit.listserv.gaynet/c/SIJ2PB0DXmk/m/K1cF2qw0U5gJ Hoping to appease the Christian right and the Clinton administration, gaycrats from Barney Frank on down join Jesse Helms in calling on the International Lesbian and Gay Association to expel the North American Man/Boy Love Association the only U.S. group active in the ILGA for more than a decade. But heterosexual supremacists object to all varieties of homosexuality, not just this or that subgroup.

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History

Etymology

Blend of gay + Democrat.