re-gay

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ gay.

Verb

re-gay (third-person singular simple present re-gays, present participle re-gaying, simple past and past participle re-gayed)

1. (uncommon) To cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to be associated once again with gay people. [popularized in the 1990s]
   • 2002, Simon Watney, Imagine Hope, page 189:

     This is why AIDS simply had to be re-gayed.

Related terms

• gay
• de-gay

Anagrams

• gayer, Geary, ragey, yager, Yager, Garey, grey-A, gyrae