Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) homosexuality.

1969		in V. Russo Celluloid Closet (1981) 82: It [sc. the film Midnight Cowboy] just doesn’t work. One could accept mutually exploitative, explicitly stated faggery’ [Simes:DLSS].
1979		E. Bentley in Homosexuality & Fr. Lit. 126: The man who wrote Captain my Captain cannot be a fag, because, for one thing, the faggery might rub off on Abraham Lincoln [Simes:DLSS].