Active
Gay
Gay adjective - Having much high-spirited energy and movement.
Usage example: couples dancing a gay, fast-paced jig
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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By and large this worked, with only 20,000 people of a mostly or exclusively gay or active-paedophile German population of at least 1.6 million (of 80 million, assuming the universal average rate of c.2%) being imprisoned for it.
Source: Useful Notes / The Holocaust -
He's an old man with no active sex life and he doesn't have any stereotypically gay mannerisms, so when he offhandedly mentions it, it comes completely out of the blue for the reader.
Source: Literature / Insomnia - Jason Collins will likewise be remembered as the first active male athlete in a major North American sports league to come out as gay.
Source: Never Live It Down / Sports
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