gayface

== English == === Etymology === From gay +‎ face. === Noun === gayface (usually uncountable, plural gayfaces) (rare, slang) An obvious, apparent, or stereotypical appearance of homosexuality based on a person's countenance, often characterized by effeminacy in males and masculinity in females. Antonym: straightface Details, Volume 27, Issues 7-9 Not just because of his famously homoerotic sonnets but because Shakespeare seems to have had-let's be blunt here-a serious case of gayface. (rare) The practice in which a straight person portrays a caricature of a gay person. Coordinate terms: transface; blackface, whiteface, redface, yellowface, brownface === See also === femme bull dyke girly man tom boy