Below you will find example sentences with "gay men". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Gay Men in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: gay
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 32
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "gay men" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as are masculine gay men, bar for gay men in new, don, lesbian and polari stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with young men, gay rights, openly gay, gay rights, openly gay and gay people, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with gay men
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
There were so many gay men, a couple of gay women, and gay non-binary people. (16 words)
Gay men posed nude for other gay men in perfectly respectful and artful ways that went mainstream. (17 words)
There he struck up friendships with two older gay men, referring to them as 'his gay parents'. (17 words)
Dunn blasted the meme in a tweet over the weekend, writing: “Don’t use my image for your internalised homophobia, don’t make assumptions on the kind of gay man I am or the kind of gay men I associate myself with. (42 words)
The website that targeted Grigorieva, Kochetkov and others in April 2018, welcoming “gay hunters” to participate in “Chechnya’s Comeback,” an apparent reference to of a brutal, state-sanctioned purge of gay men from the Russian region in 2017. (39 words)
Lesbian-feminists eschewed gender role play that had been pervasive in bars, as well as the perceived chauvinism of gay men; many lesbian-feminists refused to work with gay men, or take up their causes. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
For over a decade, the unspoken rule of gay cinema and television has been that gay men can be sexy protagonists — as long as they are masculine gay men.
There were so many gay men, a couple of gay women, and gay non-binary people.
Introduced by host Aubrey Plaza, the performance from the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay Men Chorus celebrated the gay moments from this year's films that many may not have realized were gay.
I’m wondering if the way these gay men talk to each other on-screen translated off-screen since you worked with a cast of all gay men.
If you don't want gay men gossiping about your sex life, don't have sex in front of a crowd of gay men.
Gay men posed nude for other gay men in perfectly respectful and artful ways that went mainstream.
In fact, gay men who do break through the “gay glass ceiling” are more highly educated than straight men in similar roles.
Lesbian-feminists eschewed gender role play that had been pervasive in bars, as well as the perceived chauvinism of gay men; many lesbian-feminists refused to work with gay men, or take up their causes.
The historian’s exploration touched on the presence of gay liberation before the ACT UP demonstrations, suggesting there was more to the lives of gay men than sexual exploration.
There he struck up friendships with two older gay men, referring to them as 'his gay parents'.
Buttigieg also spoke about his own experiences facing discrimination as a gay man, noting the “weight lifted” when the government’s policy barring gay men from serving in the military was reversed.
Dunn blasted the meme in a tweet over the weekend, writing: “Don’t use my image for your internalised homophobia, don’t make assumptions on the kind of gay man I am or the kind of gay men I associate myself with.
The website that targeted Grigorieva, Kochetkov and others in April 2018, welcoming “gay hunters” to participate in “Chechnya’s Comeback,” an apparent reference to of a brutal, state-sanctioned purge of gay men from the Russian region in 2017.
Eric Radford is one of only four openly gay male athletes who participated at the Winter Olympics this year, and he’s been representing both Canada and gay men very well.
White gay men of the type who write popular plays have few specifically gay disasters left to mine; a windfall, no doubt, for their well-being but not for the theater.
Gay men and lesbians are also regularly ordained as ministers, and a number of gay and lesbian ministers have, themselves, now become legally married to their partners.
In 2002, two books on Polari were published, Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men, and Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang (both by Paul Baker).
It was the only bar for gay men in New York City where dancing was allowed; Duberman, p. 182. dancing was its main draw since its re-opening as a gay club.
Local talk shows in the late 1950s first addressed homosexuality by inviting panels of experts (usually not gay themselves) to discuss the problems of gay men in society.
The growth of lesbian feminism in the 1970s at times so conflicted with the gay liberation movement that some lesbians refused to work with gay men.