A-gays

In ways similarly pernicious to the Indian caste system, urban American gay men have long sorted themselves into an unofficially acknowledged A-list (or "A-gays").

Logo's 'A-List: New York' is a poor excuse for a social study Hank Stuever 2010

"'Gay Inc.' means there's an elite, the A-gays, where they get good six-figure salaries, they have fabulous clothes, and they are interested in perpetuating their jobs more than gay liberation," Petrelis says.

HRC head gets praise, flak for Obama's gay-rights initiatives Lonnae O'Neal Parker 2010

Besides astonishing performances by all the lead actors, there are felicities sprinkled throughout, such as the unkind caricatures of rich "A-gays" like David Ehrenstein and Rick Stokes and the sympathetic characterizations of everybody from George Moscone to Milk's needy Mexican lover who drives everyone insane.

The Triumph of "Milk" sfmike 2009

Besides astonishing performances by all the lead actors, there are felicities sprinkled throughout, such as the unkind caricatures of rich "A-gays" like David Ehrenstein and Rick Stokes and the sympathetic characterizations of everybody from George Moscone to Milk's needy Mexican lover who drives everyone insane.

Archive 2009-01-01 sfmike 2009

No cover, RSVP or guest list at these super-sassy locale, anyone can join the diverse crowd of A-gays (the A-listers of the gay community) at Trigger, Lime and Blue Restaurant.

Teresa Rodriguez Williamson: A Hetero's Guide to Gay Pride in San Francisco 2009

To an outsider, like an Andrew Cunanan, the lifestyle represented by these and other less well-known A-gays is like something out of a Jackie Collins novel: a constant whirl of opening nights at the opera, top tables at the latest Brian McNally restaurant, parties where you're likely to bump into Madonna or Christie Turlington or Isabella Rossellini or even Gianni Versace.

Glamour After Dark 2008

Now, five months after the A-gays on the executive committee of the campaign and their well-compensated consultants lost gay marriage in California, and burned through $45 million doing so, word comes from Seth Hemmelgarn of the Bay Area Reporter that one of the audits is finished.

Petrelis Files 2009

They lied so many times during the campaign, and have shown themselves beholden to A-gays only, all the while positioning themselves to lead the next ballot proposition on gay marriage.

Petrelis Files 2009

"It would kill gay millionaire Geoff Kors and his minions at EQCA if they had to regularly meet with their alleged constituency in public meetings and run their campaigns and ideas by more of the community than just fellow A-gays and nincompoops, and get true community buy-in of a given campaign BEFORE the damn ads are foisted upon us," he wrote.

Wockner 2009

For the longest time the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force had a reputation as more progressive and activist-oriented than their counterparts at the Human Rights Campaign, which has long been known for accomplishing little, but putting on pricey galas for A-gays in cities across the country.

Petrelis Files 2009