Green’s Dictionary of Slang

art fag n.

[fag n.4 (1); however, there is no need for the target actually to be gay, the term merely reflects the time-honoured, philistine association of the arts with effeminacy]

(US campus) one who is overly affected, pretentious or ‘arty’; also attrib.

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H. Klibanoff in Phila. Inquirer (PA) 22 July 4/1: Wide-eyed cruisers in sleek Jags and sparkling dune buggies, barefoot strung-outs with scraggly beards and Charles Manson eyes, and all the Punks, Home Boys, Trendies, Guidos, Art Fags, Skaties, and Metalheads.
[US]B. Hamper Rivethead (1992) 82: It didn’t take long before the twerps at the local college leeched on to our Shindig Mecca. The local art-fag community soon followed.
bar-dak issue 18/19 14–28 Sept. n.p.: Lou Reed has devolved into a grating little art-fag, Iggy long ago sank into self-parody, while Mark E. is just an exoskeleton of a crank.
(con. 1980s) i80s.com 🌐 The 1980’s had unique type of slang of it’s own. Below is a list of certain 80’s speech, slang words and quotes [...] art fag Not necessarily a gay artist, just an artist.
A. Fox-Lerner ‘Traces of a Name’ in ThugLit Mar. [ebook] [H]e and his crew [...] lambasted me as an art fag.