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
• And that very obviously includes his experiences as a Black man and a gay man.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024