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Gay slang

Category:LGBT\nGay slang refers to slang used predominantly among gay and lesbian people. Slang frequently arises from the need of a particular subculture to create or maintain secrecy or to describe situations, acts and things not common in the dominant culture. Assimilation and use of the slang also gives individuals the feeling of belonging necessary in the creation of a subculture. Many terms that were originally gay slang have become part of the popular lexicon. Along with other terms, the term "drag," originally a Polari (British gay slang) word, was popularized by Hubert Selby, Jr in his book Last Exit to Brooklyn. He is also the author of Requiem for a Dream.

Words and phrases

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B

  • Baby dyke -- A young, inexperienced and/or boyish lesbian\n* Back room/backroom - A darkened room set aside for sex (sometimes group sex) in a club, bar or bathhouse\n* Bareback - unprotected sex, especially anal sex\n* Baths - gay bathhouses or saunas \n* Bear - a hairy, often overweight, frequently bearded man\n* Bicurious - a heterosexual who wishes to "experiment" with their sexuality\n* Blanche - a term of endearment (see Mary)\n* Bottom - the receptive partner in anal sex; the submissive partner\n* Breeder - derogatory term for a heterosexual person\n* Bugchaser - an HIV negative individual who seeks to be infected with the virus, generally through unprotected receptive anal sex; see also Gift. Also bugchasing.\n* Bulldagger - a butch lesbian who dresses and behaves in a masculine fashion\n* Bulldyke - see Bulldagger\n* Butch - masculine

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  • Daddy - an older, frequently larger, sometimes bearish man (or occasionally, woman) who takes a fatherly role in the relationship

E

  • English - caning for sexual pleasure

F

  • F2M/FTM - a transsexual man (from "female To male")\n* Fag/Faggot - an effeminate boy or man; a male homosexual (used in the same way as nigger by some black Americans) \n* Fag Hag - a woman who prefers the company of gay men; the female best friend of a gay man (sometimes considered pejorative)\n* Fay/Fey - effeminate\n* Fem/Femme - feminine; effeminate\n* Feltch - ejaculating in another person's anus and then rimming the person\n* Fish - derogatory word for a woman\n* Flame - to behave in an extremely effeminate, campy manner. Also Flamer, Flaming\n* Friend of Dorothy - a homosexual (refers to Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, or possibly to Dorothy Parker)\n* Fuck buddy - someone with whom one has sex but with whom one is not involved in a relationship\n* Fur - body hair

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  • Handballing - Fisting\n* Het - heterosexual\n* Heteroflexible - bisexual with a hetero dominance, see bicurious\n* Hung - well endowed

L

  • Label Queen - a gay man who prefers designer clothing\n* Lesbigay/LesBiGay - Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay\n* Lipstick Lesbian - a feminine lesbian

M

  • M2F, MTF - a transsexual woman (from "male to female")\n* M2M - Male to Male (sex)\n* Mary - an effeminte gay man; a term of endearment (often used in a similar way to "fag") (see Blanche)\n* Meat - penis\n* Muscle Mary - a gay man who works out in a gym (see Gym Bunny/Gym Queen); a muscular yet effeminate gay man\n* Muscle Queen - a man who prefers muscular men

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  • Otter - a gay or bisexual man who meets the description of a bear, except being of normal or sub-normal weight\n* Out/Out of the Closet - a person who is openly homosexual\n* To Out/Outing - publicly disclosing another person's homosexuality, usually against their will or without their knowledge

P

  • Pass - passing means to appear correctly as something, for example a gay man can "pass" as heterosexual or a male-to-female transsexual can "pass" as a woman\n* Pitcher - the insertive partner in anal sex; the dominant partner, see catcher\n* Pos/Poz - HIV+ (HIV positive)\n* Potato queen - coined as the opposite of "rice queen": an Asian man who prefers white men (sometimes considered pejorative)\n* Puto - Argentinian (and possibly other languages) slang for gay man.

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  • The Scene - the gay club circuit\n* Scene Queen - a gay man who loves to party\n* Seeker - a man who seeks infection with an STD (usually HIV). See Gift, Gift Giver, Bugchaser.\n* Size queen - a man who prefers large penises\n* Sister - a term of endearment between gay men and drag queens (see Blanche, Mary)\n* Smooth - hairless \n* Straight - heterosexual\n* Stud - a promiscuous gay man or butch lesbian

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  • Yestergay - a person who identified as gay in the past, but who does so no longer

External links

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GLTB Slang Dictionary\n*Polari: British Gay Slang\n*Queer Slang in the Gay 90's\n*Dictionary of Gay Slang and Historical Terms\n*GAY SLANG DICTIONARY\n*qWords -- names for queers

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