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."
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)