cisgay

cisgay

English

Alternate forms

• cis-gay

Etymology

cis- +‎ gay

Adjective

cisgay (comparative more cisgay, superlative most cisgay)

1. (LGBT, informal) Cisgender and gay.
   • 2014, Wibke Straube, Trans Cinema and Its Exit Scapes: A Transfeminist Reading of Utiopian Sensibility and Gender Dissidence in Contemporary Film, page 127:

     Unfortunately, the film also falls into the trap of connecting a non-passing body with unavoidable consequences of violence in a scene in which [trans man] Lukas has to escape a rape attempt by one of his cis-gay colleagues.

   • 2017, Ralph Haddad, "Queering the Occupation: Settler-Colonial Sexualities in the Era of Homonationalism", Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Volume 3, Number 1, Summer 2017, pages 111-112:

     A nation is considered progressive insofar as its gay population has access to same-sex marriage, can serve in the military, and can adopt children – mainly the experience of white cisgay men in the United States (Puar, 2013, 337).

   • 2017, Jian Neo Chen, "Trans Riot: Transmasculine of Colour Expressions and Embodiments in the Films of Christopher Lee", Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Volume 4, Number 3, page 305:

     Thus, when I refer to phallocentrism in cisgay porn, I am being quite literal.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cisgay.

Coordinate terms

• cishet