noun used to define the new openness toward the lgbtq+ community. used ironically by the gays and unironically by homophobes
“i don’t know if i love or hate this gaydemic” says the homosexual at a bar
“oh dear god it’s just dudes on dudes and girls on girls, it’s a fucking gaydemic” says the homophobe on the other end of the bar
noun used to express the recent openness to the lgbtq+ community. used ironically by the gays and unironically by homophobes.
“i don’t know whether i love or hate this gaydemic” says steve, the homosexual at the bar
“oh my god it’s just dudes on dudes and girls on girls nowadays, we’re going through such a gaydemic” says adam, the homophobic guy at the other end of the bar.
the bartender looks between them and eyes the camera. his gaydar is impeccable and he knows this homophobe is a repressed part of the lgbtq+ community. he senses tension… gay tension.
* 1 year later *
the bartender looks between adam and steve at the altar as they recite they’re vows to each other. none of them is aware of the amount of bad biblical jokes that are to come, but it’s ok, they are in love.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)