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Gateway Gay 

The innocuous, straight-seeming gay friend that you can introduce to homophobic people. A 'starter' gay.
Ken is the perfect gateway gay to bring over for Thanksgiving - he can bro out with my homophobic grandfather over football and car engines but he'll still make sure to mention that he's gay near the end of the evening. Can't wait for that moment.
Gateway Gay by Amanda Boekelheide December 22, 2007
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gateway gay 

A gay individual whose mere presence encourages others to change their sexual orientation from heterosexual to homosexual or bisexual.
Hey you straight skater boy; be careful around Eric, he's a gateway gay. Try and keep your tongue in your mouth.
gateway gay by Mizz Erica June 23, 2007

Gateway Gay 

A gay man, lesbian woman, bisexual or transgender person who is easily accepted by straight society. This person helps to normalize different sexual orientations for straight people. This person than starts to bring these straight people to gay movies, events, bars or parties and helps ease these straight people into feeling comfortable with GLBT people/culture they might have thought was too outlandish before.

Gateways can be of other minorities: Gateway Latinos, Gateway Asians, Gateway Blacks, Gateway Jews
Cindy: Wow! I had no idea Kevin was... gay. He seems so chill and straight

Taneisha: Oh he definitely is! He's great and fun. And he's a Gateway Gay, pretty soon he'll be bringing you to drag parties and having you dance up on a platform. And you'll love everyminute of it!
Gateway Gay by QuixoticHoya October 28, 2007

Gateway Gay 

The social butterfly gay that newly gay or non-social gay guy befriends. They introduce them to a lot of gay people and social norms. After they befriend them and are introduced to a lot of gay guys, they branch off.
Jason is a gateway gay, Tommy never had this many gay friends or attended social events until they became friends.
Gateway Gay by Valient77 September 24, 2016

GAYteway 

An action or substance that is not gay by itself, but is believed to encourage the user to experiment with gayer things.
Bro1 - Dude I've started listening to the scissor sisters laterly.

Bro2 - You know they're a GAYteway band right?
GAYteway by Dwizzelf October 30, 2010
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Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
Similar to TLDR
Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
TLDU by L-Evans January 14, 2019
Word of the Day on August 30, 2026
the act of having anonymous sexual encounters with other men in public toilets.
Cottaging by greeef April 24, 2003
Word of the Day on August 29, 2026

Salad Days 

green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

Rashness with little concern of consequence.

Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
"How did you end up in jail?"

"Salad days, 'nuf said."
Salad Days by GilbyRFC0 October 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 28, 2026
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