Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) homosexuality.

1949		‘Swasarnt Nerf’ Gaedicker’s Sodom-on-the-Hudson 1: New York is the World Capital of [...] Faggotry.
1958		E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 122: Faggotry here reaches almost pyrotechnical heights.
1973		T. Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow 668: A last fading echo of the 175- Stadt Chorale goes skipping away down the road singing some horrible salute to faggotry.
1994		T. Willocks Green River Rising 70: This was treading close to faggotry – normally an unacceptable perversion.
2004		M. Ishay Hist. of Human Rights 239: The forces of faggotry, spurred by a Friday night raid on one of the city’s largest, most popular, and longest lived gay bars, the Stonewall Inn.

2. (US gay) effeminacy.

1976

Drummer July 2/1: The review of the stage musical, ‘Boy Meets Boy,’ in DRUMMER No. 5 is exactly the kind of faggotry I had hoped to avoid in The Leather Fraternity.