gay plague

noun

Etymology

From being an epidemic spreading through the gay community.

Definitions

  1. Synonym of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

    • 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.

The neighborhood

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