The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Killiondude (talk) 19:31, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gold star gay

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This article consists of a WP:DICDEF and of a list of men with descriptions of their sex lives. The dicdef belongs into Wiktionary or into a glossary list, and the rest belongs nowhere in Wikipedia because we are not a tabloid. This could be an encyclopedia article if there were some cultural or social significance to this concept, but that does not seem to be the case. Sandstein 18:26, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 18:34, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Nominator's assessment of this article is essentially correct — this is a WP:DICDEF of a term which does not constitute a defining characteristic of its possessors, referenced only to some interview quotes supporting unencyclopedic gossip about people's sex lives. Yeah, it's a thing some of my fellow gays do say about themselves, but that doesn't make it a notable fact about who and what they are: nobody is actually going around handing out gold stars or taking away people's gay cards, or assigning or taking away status in the community, on this basis. Gold star lesbian, which isn't much more than a dictionary definition either but at least avoids the tabloidy stuff about individual lesbians' sex lives, should probably also be listed for deletion alongside this. These are not topics that need their own standalone articles — neither one of them needs anything more than one sentence within the main articles on gay or lesbian themselves. Bearcat (talk) 22:13, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.