trade

en-noun

trade (countable and uncountable, plural trades)

From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”).

der

Josh picked up some trade last night.

In a homosexual of this kind—corresponding to the test of eccentric behavior in the drawing-room—one usually finds a preference for "trade," i.e., sexually normal males, because, if another homosexual yields to him, he is only one of a class, but if he can believe that an exception is being made in his case, it seems a proof that he is being accepted for himself alone.

1950, W. H. Auden, “A Playboy of the Western World: St. Oscar, The Homintern Martyr”, in Partisan Review, pages 391–2:

(uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)


bear

en-noun

bear (countable and uncountable, plural bears)

Belizean Creole: byaa

→ Hawaiian: pea

→ Irish: béar

→ Maori: pea

→ Niuean: pea

→ Tahitian: pea

→ Tokelauan: pea

→ Tyap: a̱bya

→ Wallisian: pea

→ Xhosa: ibhere

From Middle English bere, from Old English bera, from Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô (compare West Frisian bear, Dutch beer, German Bär, Danish bjørn).
etymology notes
This is generally taken to be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“shining, brown”) (compare Tocharian A parno, Tocharian B perne (“radiant, luminous”), Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)), related to brown, bruin, and beaver.
On this theory, the Germanic languages replaced the older name of the bear, *h₂ŕ̥tḱos, with the epithet "brown one", presumably due to taboo avoidance; compare Russian медве́дь (medvédʹ, “bear”, literally “honey-eater”).
However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *bʰer- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer- (“wild animal”) "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *ǵʰw and *gʷʰ (*gʷʰ may sometimes result in Germanic *b, perhaps e.g. in *bidjaną, but it also seems to have given the g in gun and the w in warm).

der

don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear

sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you

Bears are usually hunky, chunky types reminiscent of railroad engineers and former football greats.

[1979 July 26, George Mazzei, “Who's Who in the Zoo?: A Glossary of Gay Animals”, in Robert I. McQueen, editor, The Advocate, number 272, Liberation Publications, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2014-04-18, page 42:

Bear sought by masculine white male, 30, 5'8", 165 lbs, for weekly safe encounter. I'm in a long-term relationship and seek outside fun. You: tall, masculine, over 200 lbs, discreet, moustache.

1990 December 9, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 12:

I have everything it takes to be a bear: broad shoulders, full beard, semibald pate, and lots of body hair. But I don't want to be a fetish.

2004 April 27, Richard Goldstein, “Why I'm Not a Bear”, in The Advocate, number 913, page 72:

There are numerous social organizations for bears in most parts of the United States. Lesbians don't have such prominent sexual subcultures as gay men, although, as just mentioned, some lesbians are into BDSM practices.

2006, Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human sexuality:

(gay slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.


family

en-noun

family (countable and uncountable, plural families)

Jamaican Creole: faambli, fambili

Tok Pisin: famili

Sranan Tongo: famiri

→ Chuukese: famini

→ Malay: famili

→ Maori: whāmere

From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia.

عَائِلَة

group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom

the family that lays together stays together

the family that prays together stays together

the family that sleeps together keeps together

[…]This is not your hallmark im Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there . . . no radar like gaydar, I always say.

1982 July 15, Gloria Godqueen, “What's in a card”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume 12, number 28, page 7:

A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

(uncountable, gay slang) The gay community.


family

I knew he was family when I first met him.


bag

→ Japanese: バッグ

→ Korean: 백 (baek)

→ Malay: beg / بيݢ

→ Norwegian: bag

→ Tagalog: bag

From Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek βάσταγμα (bástagma, “load”)).

كِيس

paper (or plastic) container given or sold to shoppers

(US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.


otter

From Middle English oter, otir, otur, otyre, from Old English otor, from Proto-West Germanic *otr, from Proto-Germanic *utraz, from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“aquatic, water-animal”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Otter, Dutch otter, German Otter, Swedish utter, Norwegian oter, Icelandic otur, Sanskrit उद्र (udrá), Russian вы́дра (výdra), and Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra, “water snake”). Doublet of Hydra and hydra. More etymology under English water.

cog

(gay slang) A hairy man with a slender physique, in contrast with a bear, who is more thickset.


bottom

en-verb

bottom (third-person singular simple present bottoms, present participle bottoming, simple past and past participle bottomed)

bottoms (present singular third-person)
bottoming (participle present)
bottomed (participle past)
bottomed (past)
botton (alternative dialectal)

PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn
From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Cognate with Dutch bodem, German Boden, Icelandic botn, Danish bund; also Irish bonn (“sole (of foot)”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”), Persian بن (bon, “bottom”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French).
The sense “posterior of a person” is first attested in 1794; the verb “to reach the bottom of” is first attested in 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882.

cog

Daw hadn’t bottomed in a long time. He hadn’t had sex in a year.

2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 301:

I've never bottomed in my life.

(gay slang, intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex.


bug-chaser

bug-chasers (plural)
bug chaser (alternative)

(gay slang) A man who practises bug-chasing.


hetty

en-adj

hetty (comparative hettier, superlative hettiest)

hettier (comparative)
hettiest (superlative)
hettie (alternative)


Mary

Marys (plural)
Maries (plural)
Marie (alternative)

→ Cantonese: Mary

→ Cebuano: Mary, Marie

→ Danish: Mary

→ Faroese: Marý

→ Hawaiian: Mele, Mere

→ Japanese: マリー (Marī)

desc

→ Mandarin: 瑪麗 /玛丽 (Mǎlì), 瑪莉 /玛莉 (Mǎlì), 瑪利 /玛利 (Mǎlì)

→ Manx: Mayree

→ Maori: Mere, Meri

→ Norwegian: Mary

→ Scottish Gaelic: Màiri

→ Swedish: Mary

→ Tahitian: Mere

→ Tok Pisin: meri

→ Thai: แมรี (mɛɛ-rii)

From Middle English Marie, from Old French Marie, from Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מַרְיָם (maryām) or Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (miryām), of uncertain meaning (see the Hebrew entry for more). Doublet of Miriam, Marie, Maria, and Mariah.

doublet

Note also that male homosexuals will call most anyone Bessie or Mary, e.g. ‘Oh, Bessie, you're a camp!’

1941, G. Legman, Sex Variants, volume II, page 1171:

In America in the 1950s,... Mary was often used in the vocative to address any fellow homosexual (‘Well, Mary...’).

(chiefly US, gay slang) A term of address for a male homosexual.


swish

en-verb

swish (third-person singular simple present swishes, present participle swishing, simple past and past participle swished)

swishes (present singular third-person)
swishing (participle present)
swished (participle past)
swished (past)

I shall not swish; I'll merely act limp-wristed.

(gay slang) To mince or otherwise to behave in an effeminate manner.


presentation

en-noun

presentation (countable and uncountable, plural presentations)

presentations (plural)
præsentation (alternative)

/ˌpɹɛzənˈteɪʃən/

From Old French presentation (French présentation), from Latin praesentātiōnem, accusative singular of praesentātiō (“representation, exhibition”).
Morphologically present + -ation

(mainly LGBT) Gender presentation; gender expression.


chub

chub (countable and uncountable, plural chubs)

It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a... a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leatherman, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck. Donald Duck's a gay guy who's been kicked out of the Navy.

2017 April 23, “Success Failure”, in Silicon Valley, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos):

(countable, gay slang, specifically) An overweight gay man who is part of the chubby subculture.


twink

“Where are the twinks anyway? They usually have the decency to provide one or two decorative twinks… Jesus, who needs to waste a night staring at these tired old Gucci queens.”

1978, Armistead Maupin, “Full moon in Seacliff”, in Tales of the City, New York: Ballantine, pages 253–254:

[…]the narrow gay ideal of a slim or waiflike male body, as displayed by the young "twink".

2006, Dennis D. Waskul, Phillip Vannini, Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body, page 135:

(gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair.


chubby

Recorded since 1611, from chub (“short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person”), an assibilated form of cub (“a lump, heap, mass”) and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel (“a block to which an animal is tethered”)), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr (“block, stump, log”) and/or Old Norse kumben (“stumpy”), equivalent to chub + -y. Cognate with dialectal Swedish kubbug (“fat, plump, chubby”). More at chub.

(chiefly gay slang) An overweight or obese gay man.


breeding

breeding (countable and uncountable, plural breedings)

From Middle English breedyng, bredynge (“gestation, incubation, propagation, hatching; engineering, formation, development, growth”), equivalent to breed + -ing.

(gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.


rough trade

Looked to me like one of these here sissies lookin' for rough trade, see, thought I'd roll him for some jack, what the hell, what can you do if you're sick an' can't work?

The tragic story of a young gay man who meets up with a piece of rough trade, gets convinced to become a drag hustler, and ultimately feels his life and relationships slipping away from him.

1985 August 17, Michael Bronski, “Angel (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 6, page 15:

Marc Blitzstein [...] forever championed the working class but avoided rubbing elbows with them unless they were rough trade (which wasn't quite elbows).

1994, Ned Rorem, Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir:

Some of them preferred only men; some of them dressed in flamboyant “feminine” style; some continued to be interested also in women but wore lipstick and dressed as “queans” when they went to gay clubs. But many of these men who were “to be had” were “rough trade” whose self-understanding was by no means either effeminate in gender role or exclusively homosexual in object choice.

2011, Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History, page 33:

I was compelled to check in on him after I'd come across a photography book in the East Village about gay male go-go dancers in New York. The book showed gritty backrooms, suggestions of illicit sex, parties, and drugs. Flipping through its pages, I saw dancers caught in risqué, frozen poses. The photographer suggested the subjects were “rough trade,” men with criminal pasts, busted for prostitution, drugs, or assault. Others were “gay for pay,” husbands with wives and kids, trying to scrape by.

2015, Ryan Berg, No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions:

(gay slang) Rough or tough men who are available as casual sexual partners for other men (for example in exchange for money).


whooped

Her hair was whooped!


chickenhawk

/ˈt͡ʃɪkɪnˌhɔk/

From chicken + hawk. The political sense is derived from figurative meanings of "chicken" (coward) and "hawk" (militarist).

For every instance of Saul's good-humoredly putting one over on the criminal justice system […] to free his younger lover from his latest legal trouble, Rogers recounts callous treatment at the hands of the older man. In addition, Sinbad suffers brutal depredations from the city's other chicken hawks.

1985 August 24, Mark McHarry, “Adult/Youth Sex as Fiction, Fact, and Fate”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 8:

(derogatory, gay slang) An older, usually more powerful man who preys on adolescent boys for sex.


screaming

en-adj

screaming (comparative more screaming, superlative most screaming)

more screaming (comparative)
most screaming (superlative)

Did you see that guy at the bar? Screaming!

(gay slang) Effeminate, flamboyant or otherwise obviously gay.


Bess

listen here, Bess

(gay slang) A term applied to a fellow gay man, usually preceding an admonition.


rice queen

rice queens (plural)
rice-queen (alternative)
Rice Queen (alternative)

From rice with the (somewhat derogatory) sense of "Asian man," combined with queen to imply "homosexual attraction to...". Compare bean queen for derivation; though, one probably formed by analogy with the other.

1984, Herbert Gold, Mister White Eyes: A Novel, Arbor House, →ISBN, page 204,
These were nostalgic gray wolves in this place, or maybe they were the ones who spent the money and brought in the chickens. A rice queen with a Japanese boy (maybe Chinese).

1995, unnamed interview subject, quoted in Laurence Wai-Teng Leong and Gerard Sullivan, Gays and Lesbians in Asia and the Pacific: Social and Human Services, Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 101,
If a man like myself in his 40s goes into a gay bar in Australia, no heads are going to turn. There are a few young Asian men and a lot of rice queens. In Thailand the position is reversed and the Caucasian man can choose.

2005, Regie Cabico, "gameboy", in Emanuel Xavier (Ed.), Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry, Suspect Thoughts Press, →ISBN, page 50,
[…] / i am not a teriyaki toy / / a rice queen's dream a bowl of soy sauce to dip yr meat in / […]

(gay slang, somewhat derogatory) A non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.


TBH

(obsolete, gay slang) Initialism of to be had. (sexually available)


bean queen

(gay slang) A (usually white) man who is primarily attracted to Hispanic and Latino men.


cub

cubs (plural)
cubbe (alternative obsolete)

From earlier cubbe. Origin unknown. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *kubb-, from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object, knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch, vault”).
Compare Icelandic and Old Norse kobbi (“seal”), Old Irish cuib (“whelp”). Compare also English cob.
Originally, the meaning was specifically "young fox", in which sense it has largely replaced English whelp.

unk

unknown

der

(gay slang) a younger (or younger-looking) "bear" type of man.


boy next door

boys next door (plural)
boy-next-door (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-boy next door.wav

(gay slang) A young, attractive, slim male, usually having little body hair.


mangina

He resisted me every time I tried to fuck him. I think that’s what kept the passion alive. I loved pursuing him, and he loved controlling me with his mangina.

1999, Scott Capurro, Fowl Play, London: Headline Book Publishing, published 2000, →ISBN, page 216:

Hidden in the depths of every man’s rectum is a special nubbin of love about the size of a walnut—the prostate. It’s reached by similar methods to the G-spot on a woman, but in his mangina instead.

2011, Mamakind, Sex Pot: The Marijuana Lover's Guide to Gettin' It On, Piedmont, Calif.: Quick American Publishing, →ISBN, page 91:

(chiefly gay slang) The anus of a man, especially in the context of gay sex.


boy pussy

boy pussies (plural)
boypussy (alternative)
boipussy (alternative)
boi pussy (alternative)

I carried the lube pump with me and set it on the floor next to the bench, so I raised my legs up high, took a few big dollops, and then worked them into my boy pussy, pressing into the well-fucked, well-rimmed passage, which was already sticky from the cum of my last few customers. Then I just lay on the bench, my greased fuck hole open and ready for more.

2010, Jackman Hill, Forty-Dollar Butt Boy:

"Put your legs up for me. That's it bitch, show me that boy pussy," Marco said. "You want this, whore?" he said, rubbing his wildly throbbing cock against the boy's tight hole.

2009, Mickey Erlach, Pretty Boys and Roughnecks, page 50:

"Yeah, I'll eat your little boy pussy. I need to make it nice and wet so I can fuck it long and hard."

2006, John Patrick, Boys of the Night, page 144:

(vulgar, chiefly gay slang) The anus of a man, usually the passive participant in gay sex.


man pussy

man pussies (plural)
man-pussy (alternative)

We're up for a little man-pussy, Albert. Me and Jake, we're gonna get our dicks into you, you cute little shit.

1995, Perry Brass, Albert, or, The Book of Man, page 93:

On a surprisingly large number of those occasions, gentle, submissive, effeminate Danny also received a lot of blow-jobs and fucked a lot of man-pussy himself.

2005, John Butler, The Gay Utopia, page 83:

As my lover continued to plow into my tender man-pussy, he pulled me closer to him, kissing me passionately with each violent fuck.

2006, John Patrick, Taboo!: The Lure of the Forbidden, page 90:

With the floor cleaned and swept with the use of his ass, the men were getting horny watching the talented hole at work. "How about a little man-pussy, Sarge?" someone asked.

2010, Michael Gleich, Sarge and the Sailor Boy:

(vulgar, chiefly gay slang) The anus and rectum of a man, usually the receptive participant (the bottom) in gay sex.


boy cunt

boy cunts (plural)
boycunt (alternative)
boy-cunt (alternative)

Your butt plug is on the sink there clean it up too and put it back up your boy cunt and go upstairs and meet me in the office for your instructions.

2010, Bret Yerlac, Cub Boy Training, page 36:

While the other two fucked his throbbing boy-cunt, Dirk started jerking off.

2009, Christopher Pierce, Sex Time: Erotic Stories of Time Travel, page 120:

Rex slid in smoothly, relishing the enfolding heat of Corky's slick boy-cunt as he entered him for the first delicious time. He clasped Corky firmly, holding onto him as he powered deep into his ass.

His tiny ass opened and I slid into the tightest boy cunt I've ever had. Javier's eyes grew wide, and I thought he must be in incredible pain, but he took only a moment to slide further down on my prick, then a wide grin spread across his face.

2007, John Patrick, Mad About the Boys, page 117:


man cunt

man cunts (plural)
mancunt (alternative)

He spat onto his cock and watched the bubbles of his saliva disappear into Josh's man-cunt.

2010, R. Jackson, Bears in the Wild, page 115:

Ryan was moaning with pleasure, and these noises were egging him on to go deeper into the hole, to try and lick the inside of his beautiful man cunt.

The smell of sex, the heat of the sun and the warm dampness of Eddie's man-cunt had brought him to the point of no return.

2009, Mickey Erlach, Pretty Boys and Roughnecks, page 13:

Dale stepped over to Toby's beach towel and lay down. Simon joined him, squatting down on his erection, taking the whole length up his man cunt, and inviting Toby to squat down on his boyfriend's face.

2009, Mickey Erlach, Boys Caught in the Act, page 46:

(vulgar, chiefly gay slang) The anus of a man, usually the receptive participant in gay sex.


pussyboy

pussyboys (plural)
pussy boy (alternative)
pussy-boy (alternative)

Whenever I screamed out for my Master, He'd just laugh and say “You asked for this, pussyboy, now deal with it.

2008, Christopher Pierce, Men on the Edge, page 68:

“Now, for once, you're going to be my pussyboy!”

2010, Christopher Pierce, Kidnapped by a Sex Maniac, page 31:

(gay slang) A bottom, usually a younger, submissive, and hairless male.


bitchboy

/ˈbɪt͡ʃˌbɔɪ/

2004, Best gay erotica, snippet
...set of anal beads in a twelve-mile radius of Christopher Street and shove them all up your ass while you whine and whine and whine like the beefy blond bitchboy of my dreams, but then I think about actually having to do that.

I love being a bitchboy bottom when a top can seduce me properly.

(gay slang) A bottom, usually a younger, submissive male.


poz friendly

en-adj

poz friendly (comparative more poz friendly, superlative most poz friendly)

more poz friendly (comparative)
most poz friendly (superlative)

(gay slang) Willing to have sex with someone who is HIV positive by someone who is HIV negative.


cuntboy

Do your dance for the man, cuntboy.

And now he is an initiate in the sect of the clean-shaven cuntboy.

2000, P.P. Hartnett, The Gay Times book of short stories: new century, new writing:

(gay slang, vulgar) An extremely submissive or dominated bottom; a pussyboy.


youngman

From young + man. Possible doublet of yeoman.

There's a youngman staring at him. And now a man cruising which one? Johnny. In a hollow bowl created by the drooping branches of the trees, the man goes down on Johnny. Thirty-two! Johnny counts, waiting anxiously for the youngman also to touch his cock so he can count 33 in rapid succession.

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I want him to love me, accept me—all of me. Let me be his youngman.

It is folly to deny that the scenario of this novel takes place nightly in bars throughout the country. At the Spike in New York, the Gold Coast in Chicago, Herbie's in Boston, the One Way in San Francisco, Mary's in Houston, the Washington DC Eagle . . . leather master meets and initiates youngman; handcuffs bind wrists; cops, corporals, and construction workers spit, piss and ejaculate on men seeking humiliation.

1974 February 2, Eric Rofes, “For Leathermen Who Have Considered S & M”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 19:

(dated, gay slang) A younger lover or sexual partner.


bussy

bussies (plural)
boosay (alternative euphemistic)

Blend of boy + pussy or butt + pussy. See also the suffix -ussy.

(gay slang, LGBTQ, by extension) Any anus, in general.

(gay slang, LGBTQ, sometimes derogatory) The vulva or vagina of a trans man.


henny

Blend of horse + jenny, or variant of hinny?

(gay slang) Alternative spelling of honey


dinge queen

Merry said that what is obvious to them is that "these men are very unhappy and they're looking for attention or they wouldn't keep doing this." The bouncers at the Ice Palace doors dismiss the demonstrators as "dinge queens" to the people who cross the BWMT picket line.

1982 August 21, David France, “Anti-Racist Pickets Return to New York Disco”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 6, page 1:

(gay slang) A white man who is predominantly sexually attracted to black men.


basket days

From basket (gay slang for the counter of the genitalia) and days.

(gay slang) A period of mild weather that permits men to wear garments light enough to reveal the contours of their genitalia.


Greek passive

In his Asian manifestation, Robbie is fucked and sucks others off (Greek passive/French active/bottom).

1998, Alvin Eng, Q & A Queer And Asian: Queer & Asian In America:

(obsolete, gay slang) Taking or preferring to take the receptive role in anal sex.


Greek active

Attractive Frenchman, 37 5'11", 165 lbs, good hairy body, Greek active, well-traveled, multi-lingual, seeks very muscular, masculine, Greek passive, black or Puerto Rican friends, 19-35.

(obsolete, gay slang) Taking or preferring to take the insertive role in anal sex.


French passive

R U FRENCH PASSIVE? Do you love lying back getting great head?

(obsolete, gay slang) Preferring to receive rather than give fellatio.


French active

(obsolete, gay slang) Preferring to give rather than receive fellatio.


AFAM

AFAMs (plural)
afam (alternative)
Afam (alternative)

Possibly an initialism of A Foreigner Around Manila.

(Philippines, chiefly gay slang, women's speech) a foreigner in the Philippines (usually male)


twinky

twinky (comparative twinkier, superlative twinkiest)

twinkier (comparative)
twinkiest (superlative)

Daniel is the sole sophomore, a twinky raccoon who obsesses about his weight. Jake, the cougar who's his current fling, is a senior like me, though he didn't join FLAG until our sophomore year.

2010, Kyell Gold, Out of Position, Kyell Gold, →ISBN, page 36:

Tyler sprung awake to see Simon Fujisawa, his roommate, one of the twinkiest twenty-one-year-old “twinks” in existence, standing in his bedroom doorway Slim, toned, hairless, half-Japanese and half-Portuguese, with jet-black hair styled ...

2013, Lawrence Ferber, Bearcity: The Novel, Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 4:

But he doesn't care or notice because he's caught the eye of a twinky, dark-haired young waiter, who's only too happy to talk him through the wine list.

2021, Fearne Hill, To Hold a Hidden Pearl, NineStar Press, →ISBN:

(gay slang) Being or resembling a twink (“young, attractive, slim male”).


bump purses

en-verb

bump purses (third-person singular simple present bumps purses, present participle bumping purses, simple past and past participle bumped purses)

bumps purses (present singular third-person)
bumping purses (participle present)
bumped purses (participle past)
bumped purses (past)

(gay slang, euphemistic) To have sex, especially when participants involved are bottoms.


boywife

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-boywife.wav

(gay slang, LGBTQ, sometimes humorous) A young male assuming the employment of homemaking, a role traditionally assumed by women; the submissive partner in the relationship who receives great pleasure in "taking care" of his more dominant partner.


drop one's beads

drop one's beads (third-person singular simple present drops one's beads, present participle dropping one's beads, simple past and past participle dropped one's beads)

drops one's beads (present singular third-person)
dropping one's beads (participle present)
dropped one's beads (participle past)
dropped one's beads (past)

But they will “drop their beads” (as queens used to say) one by one, until the full necklace lies on the floor. He'll mention he likes the ballet, you'll tell him of your interest in opera.

1977, Charles Silverstein, Edmund White, The Joy of Gay Sex, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 124:

(gay slang) To reveal one's homosexuality.


jing-jang

The only time he'd stand still was when he'd be in front of a mirror, perferably without any clothes on, so he could admire himself. I've seen him stand like that for an hour looking at his jing-jang. I thought he was pretty squirrelly, but I had to admit he was well hung.

1967, Jerry Sohl, The Lemon Eaters, New York, N.Y.: Dell Books, published 1968, page 142:


read someone's beads

read someone's beads (third-person singular simple present reads someone's beads, present participle reading someone's beads, simple past and past participle read someone's beads)

reads someone's beads (present singular third-person)
reading someone's beads (participle present)
read someone's beads (participle past)
read someone's beads (past)

1976-1977, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He began to read our beads saying he's observed us often & he sees J as "a villain," not very flexible or open & a cynical person. But he sees me as a man with a sense of humor, much more open to different things, that J can't adjust to change.

(dated, transitive, gay slang) To read someone; to call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.


STIF

Modified acronym of "straight-identified faggot". Punning on the slang sense of stiff, "a conventionalist person".

If there's "male hatred' in my book it's directed at those same attitudes in gay males who are […] still permeated with such solipsistic male assumptions, like those of our fathers and forefathers, that the world is for them alone and that it revolves around them, STIFFS, as they were once called early on when the movement had the word "liberation" in it: straight-identified faggots.

1982 April 24, Michael Rumaker, “Zephyrs”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

(dated, gay slang) A gay man seen as exhibiting heterosexual manners or attitudes.


snow queen

You have a lot of people of color here who have problems with their own racial identity. What we in the Black homosexual community term "snow queens." There's lots of them here who will not even speak to you, who will look right through you like you don't even exist, and consider association with whites as some kind of elevation of their status, in life and the community.

1984 December 15, Charles Fuller, Henry Craig Chinn, “Black Men's Association of Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 10:

(gay slang, often derogatory) A black gay man who prefers to have relations with white men.


CYT

I dont like bears . Hairy guys are a turn off . Dont want to offend anybody , but they just dont do it for me . Give me a nice , smooth C.Y.T. anytime

1992 June 9, Chris L Singline, “past arguements^([sic])”, in soc.bi (Usenet):

There is this CYT working as a gofer at the repair shop. Blond buzz cut, blue eyes, willowy (I think - hard to tell in the baggy hockey shirt and baggy jeans he wears.) Had a worried look on his very cute face. Nice phone voice when I called about the truck.

1998 May 20, sh...@glib.org, “My Two Current Crushes”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

(gay slang, dated) Initialism of cute young thing.


donut bumping

(Canada, US, gay slang) Synonym of tribadism


gipster

Most of us gipsters (gay hipsters -- trust me, not all gays are hip) were born in the mid-'70s.

2005 March 11, Neil James, “Letters”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2021-09-17:

While it's rare to see these so-called gipsters at Pride events (they prefer the book and record stores, thank you) they do tend toward house parties and special events.

2010 October 17, Natalie Hope McDonald, “What's a Gay Hipster?”, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, P.A.: Metrocorp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-10:

The fact that Brooklyn is full of both bearded Jews and bearded hipsters can be confusing, leading to a rise in websites like Hasid or Hipster. Throw in the gay phenomenon known as bears (barrel-chested, oft-bearded, hairy, checkered-shirt-wearers), which now come in traditional and gipster (gay hipster) varieties, and things get even more hard to sort out.

2013 March 28, Marjorie Ingall, “The Chosen Facial Hair”, in Tablet, Seattle, W.A.: Nextbook, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-21:

It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a... a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leatherman, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck. Donald Duck's a gay guy who's been kicked out of the Navy.

2017 April 23, “Success Failure”, in Silicon Valley, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos):


superchub

"You know there's a superchub bar in east Lauderdale, fat boy. Shouldn't you be up there mixin' with the Michelin Men?"

2014, Jack Kerley, The Memory Killer, London: Harper, →ISBN, page 182:

Even if the women in question were not actively abusive, due to the pervasive and internalised nature of fat stigma (Andreyeva et al., 2008; Cooper, 2010; Cooper et al., 2014; Edmonds & Zieff, 2015; Gough & Flanders, 2009:243–244; Hopkins, 2012; Longhurst, 2005; Pausé, 2017; Wann, 2009) it can be very emotionally damaging for fat GBQ men like Ryan and superchubs like Timothy to experience this kind of behaviour, emphasising their feeling of abjection.

2024, Nick McGlynn, “Bear Boundaries”, in Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 117:

(gay slang) An extremely obese chub (an overweight gay man who is part of the chubby subculture).


twunky

en-adj

twunky (comparative twunkier, superlative twunkiest)

twunkier (comparative)
twunkiest (superlative)

For more than 80 years, a shirtless photo of Honest Abe has greeted federal courthouse visitors in Los Angeles. The statue, titled “The Young Lincoln,” offers a hunky depiction of the 16th president. [see title]

2024 May 21, Alex Reimer, “People can’t stop thirsting over this twunky Abe Lincoln statue greeting them at a federal courthouse”, in Queerty:

(gay slang) Being or resembling a twunk (“muscular twink”).


gay as pink ink

The guy over there is as gay as pink ink.

(gay slang) Overtly or flamboyantly homosexual.


green queen

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From green + queen (“an effeminate or homosexual man”).

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queen<id:homosexual man><t:an effeminate or homosexual man>

(US, gay slang) A gay man who derives sexual pleasure from engaging in public sex in parks, near bushes and trees.


eyeball queen

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From eyeball + queen (“effeminate or homosexual man”).

queen<id:homosexual man><t:effeminate or homosexual man>

(US, gay slang) A gay man who derives sexual pleasure from observing other people, especially when they are engaing in a sexual activity.


snowflake queen

en-noun

snowflake queen (plural snowflake queens)

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From snowflake + queen (“effeminate or homosexual man”).

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(US, gay slang) A gay man who derives sexual pleasure from having semen ejaculated on one's face.


flaggot

(Canada, US, gay slang, derogatory) An ostentatiously effeminate gay person.