gay plague

English

Etymology

From being an epidemic spreading through the gay community.

Noun

gay plague (uncountable)

  1. (pathology, obsolete, slang, 1980s) Synonym of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”).
    • 1989, Marshall Kirk, Hunter Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s, Doubleday Books, page xiii:
      And it aims to launch upon this task in an era of superlative need and supreme difficulty, the frightening era of ‘the gay plague,’ AIDS.

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