fag-hag

fag-hag
n
a woman who prefers the company of homosexual men. The expression became popular in the late 1960s with increased awareness of the gay commu-nity among straights. The phrase quickly spread from the USA to Britain and Aus-tralia. Although originally and usually used pejoratively, it can now be used neutrally, or by a woman of herself. 'She [Edith Olivier] became the supreme fag-hag of the 1920s and 1930s, the older woman who acts as mother-confessor and salonniere to a group of young homosexual men.' (Bevis Hillier writing in the Sunday Times, 26 November 1989)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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