Citations:cis-gay

Adjective: "(LGBT, informal, neologism) cisgender and gay"

 * 2011, Miguel Obradors-Compos, "Deconstructing Biphobia", Journal of Bisexuality, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, page 217:
 * In such organizations discrimination on grounds of gender (lesbians/females), sexual orientation (bisexuals) and sexual identity (transgenders) tend to be common rather than rare, because the dynamics of oppression and privileges of the mainstream society are reproduced (probably unconsciously) in their structures, in what is known as CisGay normativity.
 * 2013, Miguel Obradors, quoted in "Interview With Miguel Obradors", BI 2.0, August 2013, page 39:
 * In some cis-gay environments the feminine is used as default as well, but not because of their feminism, but in some cases rather because of CisHomonormativity, or certainly misogyny, which is also quite disrespectful.
 * 2014, Wibke Straube, Trans Cinema and Its Exit Scapes: A Transfeminist Reading of Utiopian Sensibility and Gender Dissidence in Contemporary Film, Linköping University (2014), ISBN 978-91-7519-254-3, page 127:
 * Unfortunately, the film also falls into the trap of connecting a non-passing body with unavoidable consequences of violence in a scene in which Lukas has to escape a rape attempt by one of his cis-gay colleagues.
 * 2015, Ed Simmons, "Lest We Forget", No HeterOx (Oxford, UK):
 * (page 24:) In an increasingly aestheticized cisgay community, age is a horror and the aged are abject.
 * (page 25:) When all the media offers is cis-gay white men picket-fenced and happily partnered, and when the media is the primary force for the construction of one's queer identity, swathes of queers are unrepresented,
 * 2017, Ralph Haddad, "Queering the Occupation: Settler-Colonial Sexualities in the Era of Homonationalism", Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Volume 3, Number 1, Summer 2017, pages 111-112:
 * A nation is considered progressive insofar as its gay population has access to same-sex marriage, can serve in the military, and can adopt children – mainly the experience of white cisgay men in the United States (Puar, 2013, 337).
 * 2017, Jian Neo Chen, "Trans Riot: Transmasculine of Colour Expressions and Embodiments in the Films of Christopher Lee", Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Volume 4, Number 3, page 305:
 * Thus, when I refer to phallocentrism in cisgay porn, I am being quite literal. Whether gay, straight, or another sexual identification, cismasculinity’s material embodiment of—and correlation with—the male sex (organ) grants some degree of access and kinship to the ideal (even if rejected or not realized) symbolic position of cismasculine patriarchal power within libidinal and social economies.
 * 2019, Jian Neo Chen, Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement, unnumbered pages:
 * Despite her attention to some of the power differentials between the cisgay men in drag and Venus in the film’s ballroom circuit and her strong critique of the gender laws that result in Venus’s death, Butler treats Venus’s trans desire to feel complete in her womanhood, which Venus also associates (sometimes hyperbolically) with the safety and comfort of being able to have a care, a man she loves, and a nice home, as a "tragic misreading of the social map of power" and "fatally unsubversive appropriation (Butler 1993, 128, 131; Livingston 1990).
 * 2019, Zoey Green, "Building Towards Plurisexual Health Equity: Exploring Impacts of Partner Sexual Orientation Identity and Counselling Experiences on Plurisexuals", thesis submitted to City University of Seattle, page 96:
 * They noted, however, that in “cisgay communities” this acceptance was more readily available when their partner’s gender expression was also similar to their own.
 * 2021, Diego Galdo González, "Lima: City of Maricones: Understanding the Meanings of Maricones ' Sexual Behaviour in Lima, Peru from an Intersectional Perspective (1950s-1970s)", thesis submitted to the University of Amsterdam, page 20:
 * Following Donna Haraway’s call for “politics and epistemologies of location, positioning, and situating,” I state my positionality as a white, upper-class cisgay man from Lima, Peru (1988, 589).
 * 2021, Amanda Marie Simms, "Reflections on Living Gender in Prison: A Phenomenological Inquiry", dissertation submitted to the University of Tennessee, page 87:
 * Participant 0420 talked of several negative experiences while at work with the general public: “I wouldn’t have gotten that treatment even if I was cisgay.”

Noun: "(LGBT, informal, neologism) a cisgender gay man"

 * 2012, Dame La di Da, "Straight Up", Critic (University of Otago), Issue 17, 23 June 2012, page 29:
 * Often I am encouraged by mainstream cis-gays and lesbians not to complain, not to make a scene, not to exist.
 * 2013, Miguel Obradors, quoted in "Interview With Miguel Obradors", BI 2.0, August 2013, page 37:
 * In CisHomonormative environments, cis-lesbians appropriate themselves of spaces for "women" while cis-gays appropriate themselves of spaces for "men."