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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Please will you help me by listing the mainstream terms you know for a homosexual man? I will be using many of them in a poll.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I don't think there are many "mainstream" terms - most of them are slang or subcultural. Off-hand, I suppose "homosexual", "urning", "invert", deviant", "sodomite" ... but all of these apart from the first admit of a variety of interpretations which include but are not exclusively limited to gay male activities.
The list of slang words and expressions is, of course, vast - I've been called all of those listed below, and a fair few othr ones as well!
bender
homo
fag
pouf
queer
cock-sucker
ring-licker
uphill gardener
player of the pink oboe
bum-bandit
fudge-packer
batting for the other team
"one of them"
"an artistic type"
"a bit theatrical"
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Macky
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Really getting into it |
Location: USA
Registered: November 2008
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I think these are older terms.
flake
fruit
fairy
And I wouldn't be repeating Nw's fag if I included
faggot, would I?
Are we including words that reference specific types of homosexual men? These are interesting because they are used exclusively by gay men to refer to other gay men.
Twink
Bear
Queen
Flamin' Queen
Closet Queen
Non-english like the German Schwuler or the French pédé? Klingon must have a word for homosexual man.
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Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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Ponce
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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Shirt-lifter isn't on NW's list or maricon on Macky's.
I got these synonyms for homosexual from a thesaurus:
monoclinous, gynandrous, hermaphroditic, homoerotic, homophile, lesbian, Sapphic, androgynous, epicene, gay, effeminate, limp-wristed*, queer*.
Love,
Anthony
(one of them)
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Oh, I can't think how I missed "shift-lifter", Anthony - I've always thought it such a delicious concept with the vague frisson of naughtiness!
And your "maricon" has reminded me of "mariposa" (butterfly) - something that I find charming (if desperately politically incorrect in portraying gay men as beautiful objects of little value and short attention spans).
On a more personal note, my father's favourite put-down for me was "nancy-boy" - I appear to have repressed all memory of it when posting last night.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Yes, NW, I enjoyed being a shirt-lifter, especially when there was a jockstrap under it!
But (to echo your words) I can't think how I missed 'nancy-boy'.
Love,
Anthony
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