Gay guy slang
LGBTQIA+ Slurs and Slang
bog queen
Synonyms: Bathsheba (composition between bathroom and Sheba to create a name reminiscent of the Queen of Sheba), Ghost (50s, ghost, because they wander the corridors of the bathroom).
While browsing recently through the available advocate issues of Oz magazine I noticed a guide to gay slang that I didn’t recall seeing before. The underground magazines and newspapers of the 60s and 70s were a lot more tolerant of the nascent same-sex attracted rights movement than their “straight” (ie: non-freak) counterparts. Oz magazine published pieces about gay rights, notably so in issue 23 which ran an extract from The Lgbtq+ Handbook (1969) by Angelo d’Arcangelo among a couple of other features; the UK’s first homosexual magazine, Jeremy, advertised regularly in Oz and IT; later issues of Oz carried ads for another gay mag, Follow Up, and there’s a letter in one issue from a lgbtq+ freak complaining about the state of the few same-sex attracted pubs in London where the clientele was apparently not freaky enough. (His solution was to try and persuade them all to drop acid.) Arguments which still circulate today, between those who want to assimilate and those who prefer to remain separate from general society, depart back a elongated way.
The gay slang guide was extracted from The Queens’ Vernacular: A Lgbtq+ Lexicon by Bruce Rodgers (1942–2009), published in
The Guysexual’s Urban Dictionary for Homosexual Slang
What’s the shelf life of a clearance sale shirt? What’s the expiry date on a Grindr hookup? Do potatoes compute as carbs? If you undergo like a potato, are you a carb? Do you require to kick your junk sustenance habits out on the curb (no pun intended)? Are moccasins better than brogues? More importantly, what is a brogue?
When you are gay man, you’ll always be full of questions (when you are not full of self-doubt, that is) — but this is 2018, and some questions, while basic, — will always be more important than the others.
Take a few of these as an example.
Don’t understand whether you are a top or a bottom? Do you feel it’s rude (and very inappropriate) when someone asks you whether you are a slave? Have you always wondered why your friends laughed at you when you said you lovedvanilla? Are you surprised that people could be that into otters? More importantly, what is an otter?
It’s 2018, and it’s moment for you to get with the times. Whether you are an out-and-proud gay man or an in-the-closet newbie, your dictionary of gay slang will always be as varied as your little black book of boys. So the next time someone tells
Types
Some gay men exploit types to portray, identify and interact themselves. Who hasn't heard someone tell “he’s my type" or been asked if a guy is yours? There is always some disagreement around the terms we apply and whether we should use them at all.
Therefore, you should be sensitive if applying a type to someone, bearing in consciousness some gay men reject them altogether as narrow, superficial, and demeaning. Equally, some use types affectionately and as a convenient shorthand.
It's a bit of a bear pit (no pun intended), but here's our take on types, though you are perfectly entitled to throw them out and be your own gay, your own homo, gender non-conforming, etc.
Physical types and personal characteristics
Some guys are primarily attracted to physical types of gay men (eg: bears, twinks, and muscle guys) while some locate characteristics in men most attractive (eg: warmth, intelligence, and humour). Others mix and match and understanding these distinctions is important.
For example, the type(s) of men we detect attractive sexually may not necessarily be the qualities we are looking for to sustain a relationship. Trouble is, we can acquire so caught up in a type we can surrender sight that not far ben