n. Heterosexual person who actively supports the homosexual lifestyle and the gay rights movement. May have gay relatives, friends, coworkers or neighbors. May participate in the equal rights movement through political petitioning, sharing of propaganda on social media, proselytizing/education, marching in pride parades, attending gay weddings, etc. Vocal against homofoes.
"Not just some of my best friends are gay, most of them are! I'm more than a faghag, I'm a gaymate!"
"For the first time in history we have a president who is a gaymate. Things are moving in the right direction."
churchhurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the churchhurt that was inflicted on me as a child.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.