"gayfolk" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From gay + folk.",
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      "expansion": "gayfolk pl (plural only)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "straightfolk"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992 November 23, Joseph E. Beason, “Re: gayfolk and cats”, in soc.motss (Usenet)",
          "text": "SO's affection for cats is important, but not nearly as important as not being allergic!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Tikkun, page 38",
          "text": "The gayfolk on the Mall, from Chicago and Bridgeport, Santa Cruz and South Bend, Denver, Atlanta, and Honolulu, were of the formulaic ethnic diversity you'd expect in a forties Hollywood bomber crew (directed by George Cukor, maybe).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 June 19, Brandon Thorp, “Why Miami Is the Greatest Gay Destination in America”, in Thrillist",
          "text": "South Beach is still full of debauched nightlife, much of it gay or lavender-tinged. But gentrification, which so often follows gayfolk to their ghettos, nudged much of the gay population out of Miami Beach in the 1990s.",
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        "Gay people."
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        "(informal) Gay people."
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        {
          "word": "cisfolk"
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          "word": "transfolk"
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  "word": "gayfolk"
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  "etymology_text": "From gay + folk.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "cisfolk"
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          "ref": "1992 November 23, Joseph E. Beason, “Re: gayfolk and cats”, in soc.motss (Usenet)",
          "text": "SO's affection for cats is important, but not nearly as important as not being allergic!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Tikkun, page 38",
          "text": "The gayfolk on the Mall, from Chicago and Bridgeport, Santa Cruz and South Bend, Denver, Atlanta, and Honolulu, were of the formulaic ethnic diversity you'd expect in a forties Hollywood bomber crew (directed by George Cukor, maybe).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 June 19, Brandon Thorp, “Why Miami Is the Greatest Gay Destination in America”, in Thrillist",
          "text": "South Beach is still full of debauched nightlife, much of it gay or lavender-tinged. But gentrification, which so often follows gayfolk to their ghettos, nudged much of the gay population out of Miami Beach in the 1990s.",
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        "Gay people."
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        "(informal) Gay people."
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