Obsolete slang terms that give gay men away as old

whipper snapper

the bee's knee's

I’m the same age, OP. The cringy “involved with” And also being in a relationship.

I called someone hunky the other day and got laid.

Didn't know it was an old-timer term. I'm OP's age, the other guy was 15 years younger, I guess we're both old timers.

"trick"

Catamite

Invert

Sodomite

Dreamboat

Dreamy

dungarees

OP, YOU'RE JUST A ...

I’ve decided to take a lover!

rubbers for everyone!

tranny

fag hag

Not the marrying kind

a night at the "tubs"

My partner is the only person I know who can speak Polari.

Condom

Bitchin'

God forbid your should be old, How I long for those good ole days when gay men died young. Then you’d never have to be (gasp) old (or black, or trans, or ick, a frau). You’re a troll OP.

"Mary"--no one gay uses it outside of Datalounge anymore (and here it started as an old-fashioned quaint gay term used ironically)

r18: Get a grip.

"Woof" and "woofy" just make me think of tired old bears who probably have a whole zoo of stuffed animals on their bed.

There was a late 20's non-fat bear type--whatever you call those--wearing a wifebeater with "woof" on it ordering something when I went to Tim Hortons for my trashy morning coffee a couple weeks ago.

"ick"

"Slacks"

Does that count as slang? It's still a dead giveaway.

R19, “Mary” has made a big comeback. 10 years ago, you would have been right, but younger gays use it with some regularity now. I think RuPaul’s Drag Race is responsible.

They’re now called “Dago-Tees” R22. French term, I believe.

Wiggaz

Fairy.

POOFTER!

dinge queen

WHO SHARTED

“Slim pins”

Is he musical?; Friend of Dorothy; He goes to our church; He drives a bus/VW (has a big/small dick); [rough] trade; Miss Helium Heels; she-male.

Light in the loafers

Miss Thang

I went up to this swell fella last Saturday night and told him I thought he was the cat’s pajamas and that he should give his old man the twenty-three skidoo and he had the nerve to ask me if I was drunk!

Miss Girl

I used “bug chaser” on here the other day and was called an elderly gay.

Fag hag

Rice queen.

Gay bar .. Since Gen Z doesn’t go to them anymore

Humpy number.

Stank sleeve

decolletage

He’s outta sight and so groovy!

R44 is the stank sleeve troll. Ambassador of mutilation. To what diplomatic end is obvious.

Girl, you are fierce!

OP, yup, I’m fifty and say ALL of those things, and you know what? I don’t give a flying fuck about it.

Shes a snob

Anyone else remember "Flawless!' ?

Years ago ca. 1995 in the bars I was the CATS PAJAMAS!

Saying mother and father instead of MOM and DAD when referring to someone else's parents.

Read for filth!

I love going to a cruise bar and doing a lot of TRICKING.

He's nothing to WRITE home about.

What’s the T gurl?

This cashier at Trader Joe's seemed to be flirting with me and I wrote in my journal/diary at the time that he was kind of a DREAMBOAT.

SKANK

Is she family?

Peter puffer

I WENT TO BED WITH HIM.

He-shes. As in, "There are he-shes performing tonight at the drag bar."

smegma

“tasty morsel”

“Everything is cool The cat who’s gonna cut me up is primo. “

Me: Hey guys! Look at the BASKET on that HUMPY guy over there. Friend1: WOOF! he's HUNKY. Friend 2: Yeah, but with our luck SHE's probably a bottom.

I can't... lol

A hint of lavender; sings in the choir; drop a penny and see who picks it up; the Princeton rub.

I've not heard "basket" in many a day.

I wouldn't kick him out of bed.

Confirmed bachelor.

Man cunt.

One night stand

I can’t even.

GURL

R69 - "I've not heard "basket" in many a day."

Same here. Good times...

R67

My personal pronoun is...

I think pot is still valid. I think of weed as dated. Pot isn’t dated, is it?

“Butch”

[quote] "pot" (anyone younger than Gen X says "weed" instead)

I thought "grass" was the outdated word for marijuana.

[quote]drop a penny and see who picks it up; the

What is this one about?

"cheeks" (to refer to a butt)

"boobs" or "bazooms" or "knockers"

"fish" (for women)

"transvestite"

"Miss Thing"

"spill the tea" (became dated about a year after it was first hugely popular)

[quote] What is this one about?

A wishing well, Rose.

My friends and I use a lot of these terms ironically/sarcastically-- "dreamy" or "super-dreamy" generally means someone who thinks they're a lot better looking than they actually are or is too aware of their good looks. Ditto "hunky" or "hunk"

Marijuana is "420" with my friends, but "pot" sounds less old fashioned than "weed" which sounds really 70s to me.

I'd still call it a "wifebeater" though I suspect that is not an SJW-compliant term

And "woof" is just like creepy-bear talk

But I'm sure if you asked another 34 year old with a different friend group, they'd have a completely different take

Any mention of Judy, Babs or Liza and maybe Madonna too. I do however think young people know who Joan and Betty are because of last year's Feud.

Then again, I'm old so who the fuck knows.

tatterdemalion

[quote]I think pot is still valid. I think of weed as dated. Pot isn’t dated, is it?

Weed isn't dated. Pot is dated.

We also don't call weed 420, that's just what we use as an excuse to smoke it.

"Drop a penny..." was a really old expression, say 40s, 50s, when gays were really closeted. It mean make an oblique reference to something gay, or use a gay code word or phrase, in a conversation and see who would get it. The assumption being he would be gay too. Like saying "I know him, he sings in the choir."

I think grass is really outdated and 60s. I don't think weed is or pot for that matter.

"friend of Dorothy"

"Davenport" instead of "sofa."

_______,for days!

It's ovah!

She peed.

"Say, that's a swell peter ya got on ya!"

Not to derail things. But I have a question about modern slang.

define "fuck boy"

I keep hearing used different ways and I"m confused.

Is a "fuck boy" the equivalent of a "douchebag"

I really hate "diss" (disrespect). It's not that old of a word, but it's dated and should be retired.

Ice box

A fuck boy is a hetero guy who women like to have sex with - but not necessarily much more.

A fuck boy is a hetero guy who women like to have sex with - but not necessarily much more.

R92 - "_______,for days!"

Yes! Good one.

r 67

r4 What do people say nowadays instead of "trick" (not the paid/paying variety, btw)?

Talking about Madonna in any capacity.

chifferobe

[quote]They’re now called “Dago-Tees” [R22]. French term, I believe.

In my New Jersey childhood, we called them "Guinea-T's," "Guinea" being slang for "Italian."

My grandmother was often horrified that my parents let us wear "dungarees" to restaurants when we were kids

Was she from NJ, r107?

No, R108, MD suburbs of DC.

My mother, and then I, said "dungarees," until I left home (NJ) at 18. I didn't really wear them until I left home. They were called jeans, and they were bell bottoms. Later I'd wear Levi's 501s, which I think I mostly called "Levi's."

Tallywhacker

Thanks, r88.

And thank you, too, r82 for making me laugh.

A/S/L

Rough trade

Nancy boy

Nelly queen

Chelsea queen (back when Chelsea was NYC's gay mecca).

Bucky Dent he's a FOX.

Plum nelly

Clamdigger

Stand and model ("S&M")

sport fucking

trick sheets (papers with tricks' numbers written on them)

actressing

cum rag

hips or lips?

fudgepacker

teabagging

light in the loafers

a hint of mint

You look like the laaaast ———(fill in the blank).

The rest I can figure out R119, but what is "actressing"? Is it just like overreacting to everything and turning it into a drama?

Thx

My fave: " *that* way"

"out to there!"

anything "For days!"

Anything Jack said in Will and Grace.

Red Hanky

Yellow Hanky

Black Hanky

Back in the mid-1980s, I remember the police being referred to as "Alice" by some gays. When thinking about it for this thread, I thought my memory was playing tricks on me until I looked it up. Sure enough, the police were referred to as "Alice (blue gowns)."

[Quote]In the seventies, an “Alice Blue Gown” was a uniformed police officer.

Also:

[Quote]A “basket” was “the bulge caused by the organs when wearing tight pants.” Some of the definitions were more nuanced: an “auntie,” Leitsch had written, was “an ageing or middle aged homosexual, offtimes effeminate in character,” or “a person of settled demeanor who cautions against intemperate acts.”

Been there, done that

French Active / Passive

Greek Active / Passive

dinge queen

rice queen

kitchen queen (not just one who likes to cook but will own tons of unnecessary kitchen gadgets)

Eat a microwaved bag o dicks, r132. You don’t need my steamer box.

I’m almost 60. I haven’t heard anyone use any of OP’s terms in more than 20 years, except for pot, which is still widely used by everyone.

“Chicken” and “chickenhawk” were ancient terms by the time I came out in the late 70s. I have never heard anyone use those terms.

-He’s to die for.

-He’s got the dick of death.

-Pass me the Crisco.

"My Lover"

Muscle Mary

Hunky

Hunkalicious

R96. If you ever want to know the meaning of current slang, go to Urban Dictionary.com.

Fuckboy--has different meanings

R119, "actressing" meant when a really hot straight guy would purposely do something - say a hunky construction worker taking off his shirt - in a place where a lot of gay men were gathered while pretending not to be aware of the excitement he was causing.

Gentleman with a long handshake

So many of these words are still being used and don't sound outdated at all, like 'cumrag'

I'm 37 and use stud all the time. Hunk seems 80s but doesn't bother me and I hear girls use it now. I say pot sometimes. I also use dreamy/dreamboat sometimes to descibe a guy that is just that.

Thanks for the explanation R140. I will have to steal that--not sure I ever had a word for it.

Bent

Pansy

Fruit/Fruitfly

Teabagging is obsolete?

R140, today we call them Instahos.

Wifebeater?! How charming. I would say "tank top".

"Yuck" has been replaced by "ew". I still say "yuck" and don't care if it's dated.

A lot of these words people still use y'all. Maybe not as much as back then but I hear them and I'm 37.

Foxy

What word has replaced "boobs"?

Fish

"Ribbon clerk"

Penis

I've lived in legal cannabis states since 2012 and everyone says "weed", "cannabis" or just what the product is: edible, vape, tincture, gummy, etc. Never, ever "pot", unless you're elderly.

wacky tobaccy

[quote]kitchen queen (not just one who likes to cook but will own tons of unnecessary kitchen gadgets)

Wow. I had no idea there was such a useful term to describe my particular affliction.

[quote] I’m almost 60. I haven’t heard anyone use any of OP’s terms in more than 20 years,

[quote] So many of these words are still being used and don't sound outdated at all,

Who to believe? Which is right??

Some of these are still used for nuance. Who would want to sound like all the twenty somethings out there? Don't try it beotch!

Reefer. That's what eldergays in my day called pot or weed.

“He’s a great lay. Killler bod”

Tall glass of water

"Bod" is also something you don't hear much any more.

Carpet muncher

[quote]Some of these are still used for nuance. Who would want to sound like all the twenty somethings out there?

Agreed. I knew an elderly gentleman when I was a kid who referred to the refrigerator as the icebox. I still call my refrigerator an icebox because it usually gets a smile out of whoever is in the room at the time.

Read beads

stupid thread

You mean, I can't continue calling my lover (whom I've taken) "Sonny" while poaching his delicate flower? Well, now that's just marvelous. Just when I was getting accustomed to minimizing my salt intake and ensuring that I'm getting my daily fiber. I'm only 36; what's the skinny?

Thanks for your input, r167.

🙄

Not slang but throwing up your arms in the air and doing the YMCA dance when the Village People comes on.

R166 - “Read beads”

Wow, I haven’t heard or said that since my 70s gayling days.

We knew this one queen that would kill us with his; “And let me tell you something Mary, I read her beads but good”. We plotted!

Hysterical. Good times.

r 67

^^^^^^^ “plotzed”

Gentleman caller

r166 r171

What are read beads? Sounds like a sex toy.

We danced the HUSTLE at the DISCO. The music was TO DIE FOR, and there were tons of HUMPY guys.

r 67 & r 171

Beefcake

Man Meat

shlong

Feltch

R174 - Read beads is knowing exactly where another person is 'coming from' and telling the person about it esp. in front of the crowd if any. Also read (one's) beads. The truth behind what someone is saying. ... He got plucked 'cause I was reading his beads. The Online Slang Dictionary

R 67 & r 171

R174 Wanted to mention that your comment about “read beads” sounding like a sex toy is hysterical!

r 67 & r 171 & r 177

I agree with most of these but weed is definitely still valid. I also don't think stud is dated either.

This old drag queen I used to work with called cigarettes "Sarina's" . At breaktime he'd announce, "Let's go have a Serina and a Libation."

"Oh Miss Thang, she squatted and PEE'D on that stage last night!"

"Bundling" is on the way out.

My pager just went off.

Let’s blow this popstand, daddy-o. Be there or be square.

Twenty-three skiddoo.

I hope "Let’s blow this popstand." makes a comeback. Not so much the "daddy-o" part.

We did the bump (and did bumps!) when we boogied and wore platform shoes and tight polyester pants to show off our bootie.

[quote] Twenty-three skiddoo.

This is prior to period we're discussing but... it is derived from the winds that would form around the Flatiron building on 23th Street in Manhattan and blow a lady's skirt up.

Ribbon clerk

verificatia

The Aids (instead of AIDS)

Basket

Nacreous layer of Permacum

Andrew Sullivan

"Toss me that antimacassar off the davenport so I can wipe up all the splooge!"

[quote] I hope "Let’s blow this popstand." makes a comeback.

I always have heard it as "Let's blow this popsicle stand."

[quote] The Aids (instead of AIDS)

The first time I ever heard someone use the phrase "the aids," it was someone on Datalounge pretending to imitate Donna Summer in the early 80s. I laughed for about five minutes straight!

[quote]I always have heard it as "Let's blow this popsicle stand."

"Let's blow this pop stand." rolls off the tongue better, though I guess the original saying is "Let's blow this popsicle stand."

Gay married

I love the old fashioned blue collar pronunciation of "whore" -- hoor. Rhymes with "lure".

The NYC version turned it into two syllables R196-- "your muthah is a hoo-ah"

Lol, R197. I use the "hoor" pronunciation when I want to be really insulting.

Hooker is also an old NYC working class word for prostitute. I saw an article in the New York Post a few years ago that used the word "hooker". But the Post sometimes goes heavy on its faux working identity.

Lily Law!

Calling someone a SPAZ.

"Space cadet", as in a person out of touch with reality.

Dipshit

[quote]r177 Read beads is knowing exactly where another person is 'coming from' and telling the person about it esp. in front of the crowd if any. Also read (one's) beads. The truth behind what someone is saying. ... He got plucked 'cause I was reading his beads. The Online Slang Dictionary

I've never been clear what the symbolism in that term is.

The closest I can figure is it's appraising someone's necklace and declaring it to be beads (imitation) rather than real pearls.

However, I just made that up.

I always took it as something like a Rosery reading. My dad used to laugh at Catholics when they'd "click their beads".

"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"

"Don't touch that dial!"

make yourself comfy here on my divan, laddie

and use a coaster for that drinkypoo

“Trick”. Also a sexually active guy proudly saying he gets tested “twice per year!” Like it’s still 1997. (If you’re sexually active, every 3 months is the current recommendation)

crab croquettes

Chesterfield instead of couch or sofa. It looks like it's an old fashioned Canadianism. In Britain, chesterfield refers to a particular type of buttoned leather sofa.

[quote]R204 I always took it as something like a Rosery reading. My dad used to laugh at Catholics when they'd "click their beads".

But doing a rosary is just chanting. There’s no personal interpretation, or revelation.

Apart from talking about Miss Lindsey Graham - does anyone still use the term "the vapors"? I remember the queens saying that during the mid 1980s, when I lived in the Tidewater area of Virginia.

Wasn't "The Happy Hooker" a big sex book in the 70s R199?

I didn't realize it was a New Yorkism.

I thought "hooker" was / is common across the whole U.S. That's why I snickered at the name of William Shatner's old TV series "T.J. Hooker".

Xaviera Hollander, the author of "The HappyHooker", looked pretty good at 65.

Baby, let me bang your box.

^^ Robin?

Whore-hopper. My grandfather used that term to describe men who visited prostitute.

"I lost the baby."

Meaning: I just took a shit.

In a similar vein, "drop the kids off at the pool" makes me laugh, ie. to poop.

Those damn Japs!!!

** You sillies "Jewish american princesses" (ehem)

"Bliss!" sounds old to me.

R217 Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts

Every word Mrs Patrick Campbell types.

He is an encyclopedia for dated gay slang.

R155 Just now on the Gen Z teen taking questions thread, the "teen" used the word POT. Not that it matters because I do hear all ages using it. Not just the elderly. Just saying.

Mary Jane, when referring to marijuana/weed/pot/grass/cannabis/whateverthefuckitscallednow

"Homosexualist."

I like to use words and phrases I learned from The Beverly Hillbillies. It keeps the words alive, and they're funny.

R230 That's how I feel about a lot of words. It's fun and why talk like everyone else?

So, OP, since you’ve anointed yourself as the arbiter of homosexual erudition, what are the terms the young people use now?

"Avowed Homosexual"

(not slang, but sometimes shows up in old mainstream articles, psychology journals, etc.)

I imagine some pledge ceremony.

Hungarian sizemeat

Darn Tootin!

New Fangled!

trade

R167 = Obsolete. Discard immediately.

Longtime companion

Longtime companion

I'm grateful that using the word "cunt" is ageless.

R232 - “So, OP, since you’ve anointed yourself as the arbiter of homosexual erudition, what are the terms the young people use now?”

Answer: Where’s my phone! Waaaa-waaaa

"Totally tripindicular" Lord-God-King Bufoo. Bag those toenails. Gag me with a spoon!

Gurl I'm gonna READ your ASS !!!!!

Let's not forget this campfire dandy (I know, it's not a term):

"There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off

There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off

There's a dozen on my cousin

You can hear them bastards buzzin'

whack 'em off"

^^ Sung to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It"

“They’re in a ‘Boston Marriage.’”

Judy, is more than Liza's mother.

"cream my jeans" sounds pretty old school, as does getting "corn-holed" or "reamed"

yes, whenever people say they playing corn hole, .....

Twig and berries

Skin flute

Trouser snake

Wang

R167 = 1-900-OK-FACE

Flesh Flute Meat Whistle Protein Harmonica

Cruising

omg it was divoon!

barf

"What's your scene? " Written on a piece of toilet paper wrapped around a ballpoint pen and passed under the partition of toilet stall where you and another guy are sitting next to each other and tapping your foot up and down.

"The vibes are good." "Do you brown?" "Mary Duggan!" "What's your sign?" "What are you into?"

I've had a case of the vapors and the Dr. says it might be ARC because I've been getting a lot of stank fanger lately!

Adonis

Whoops!

"dinge"

R173 deserves 150 WW. Alas, I can only give one

Pillow jumper

swish

Boudoir

The entire hanky code chart

Talk about getting one's cherry popped.

Phone sex

Porn shop

My friend's face was scarred in a plating accident.

Cha cha queen

Fruited Plain, a meeting place for gay men.

A postprandial or post coitus cigarette.

"pickle park" was the cruising area in town

"fruit loop" is another term

Creepy old men who hung out at gay bars hitting on young guys were called "trolls". This was years before the internet.

"Flamers" or even "scorchers" were were very flamboyant (ha, ha) gay men, I guess "flamer" is still used somewhat.

Dupont Circle was the only place I ever heard referred to as the Fruit Loop".

"Trolls" is still used a lot...I touch up my beard with "Just for Trolls".

Black gays would refer to any Diana fan as a "Ross Queen" which was a take-off on rice queen.

Do people still use terms like "French passive" or "Greek active"? Used to be really commonly used.

The term "Ghosting" originally meant spying on someone on the internet. Like cyber stalking.

"In the Man-grove"

Vaseline Alley to describe the local gay neighborhood.

Nice dungarees

Butt Pirates

QUEEN was also used as an emphasis of the word preceding it.

Size queen Messy queen Nasty queen Dancing queen Silly queen Lounge queen Obsessive queen Psycho queen Party queen Theater queen

... on and on.

“He’s gay.”

“She’s a lesbian.”

Catamite.

Breeders

PFLAG Mom.

the descriptor "gay" before it morphed into the super annoying acronym LGBTQMIAXYZPDQBILATSE

Suck job

"Princeton rub"

[quote] Dupont Circle was the only place I ever heard referred to as the Fruit Loop".

Other places in the US are called that too, such as part of Washington Park in Portland, OR.

I haven't heard "coke dick" (someone who can't get it up after snorting) in a while, but then I haven't snorted in a while, either.

Mama's boy; Fruity Tooty

Pansy

"MAN UP"

Come to my rooms later, darling.

Knock boots.

Spank the monkey.

Bump uglies.

Beating the bishop.

Choking the chicken.

And my favorite: Making the bald man cry.

Plucked

A lot of these are obsolete slang terms that give away anyone as being old.

[quote]Size queen Messy queen Nasty queen Dancing queen Silly queen Lounge queen Obsessive queen Psycho queen Party queen Theater queen

Commas, Rose! Commas, commas, commas!

RAD (More for Heteros)

Some gay professions..

Petal pusher

Hair burner

Curler twirler

Phonograph?

Hey laddy, want to come up to my place and listen to the gramophone?

Back in the 80s, I used to go on one of those telephone chat lines where you would be randomly connected to other callers and maybe find someone to hook up with. Just mentioning these chat lines gives me away as old.

Anyway, I once got far enough in a conversation to talk about actually hooking up. But just before hanging up - instead of saying goodbye - the guy said "Toodles!" which killed the whole deal for me.

Toodles? That was so queeny back then. Does ANYONE say it now?

[quote]Curler twirler

I got a kick out of this.

Fag hag, and it synonym, fruit fly.

Sissy-mary (used in "Blazing Saddles," by noted sissy-mary Dom DeLuise.

Dom DeLuise was married and a father. Also close friends with noted heteroxualist Burt Reynolds.

"Scat-munching, gypsy-slapping boozehound!"

[quote]Hair burner

The only time I heard that expression was in "Die, Mommie, Die!"

What's cooking, toots?!

"Listen, sister . . . "

Butt burglar.

Pooter bandit.

Turd burglar

Nudge the fudge.

Ribbon clerk - said of a gay man who worked in a retail setting, especially a department store.

Up yours!

Uphill gardener

Auntie or old auntie

Electronic, Jim Dandy, swell, bees knees, cunt

r323

"cunt"

How dare you!!! That word is ageless! Just like Betty White! Er, Just like that CUNT Betty White!!!

The clone look

"Spit, sit and spin."

(A popular T-shit at Ty's in the West Village in the early 80's.)

"Mustache rides, 5 Cents"

ditto

Every now and then I tell someone to "sit and spin" and they have no idea what it means. Basically I'm telling them to fuck off :)

R308 , Everyone says Toodles!

Move along toots!

Ta Ta

Say hello to your mother for me.

himbo

Toss the salad

Kicking up your toes.

Long Dong John

"Turd burglar" makes the 8 year old in me crack up.

In the mid-80s, I had a job in retail working for a big queen who always referred to the staff as "ribbon clerks."

My father (homophobe, not homo) referred to gay men as "fruitcakes," though I think he also used this term for other, non-gay people he found peculiar.

My teenaged niece and nephews use "pot" and "weed" interchangeably, but of course never "grass." However, I'm still fond of the old 70s bumper-sticker saying, "Gas, grass, or ass—nobody rides for free." And I often refer to pot as "reefer" just for my own amusement. Not all of us olds are concerned with concealing our actual age or saying something that might give it away. There's actually nothing more pathetic to me than a middle-aged person striving to seem youthful and up to date with what younger generations are saying and doing.

"Prostitution whore" will never go out of style.

R337 Thank god.

"Dropping hair pins." You're really an old auntie, if you're still using that one.

"Browning," referring to butt-fuckery.

I find this thread enlightening. Taking notes as I type!

Big Ear Ernie

Blow it out your keister!

Shoot your wad

Hang a wang

[quote]There was a late 20's non-fat bear type--whatever you call those

Cub.

Or, if thin and hairy, otter.

Or if Asian and a bear, panda.

Tea (gossip)

Spill the tea (tell a secret)

Clock his tea (identify someone's gayness)

Lavender marriage

"Meanwhile"

Said to each other when you're having a conversation in a public place, such as an outdoor cafe, and suddenly a hunky stud walks by.

Drag terms infiltrated "Broad City" and Rupaul even appeared on a few episodes..

Girls in middle school and high school say "Yas Queen! - Spill the Tea - What's the Tea? - Errr-KAY!"

mmm, mama likey!

[Quote]Girls in middle school and high school say "Yas Queen! - Spill the Tea - What's the Tea? - Errr-KAY!"

Last week I had an appointment at the vet for my Husky's booster shots. They texted me a confirmation, stating, "reply 'confirm,' " or some such. Seized by the moment, I texted back, "Yass, kween!"

When Husky and I arrived for the appointment, I was asked what the "yass, kween" was all about (because they apparently read these things.) I said, "It's a gay thing," which seemed to serve as a good explanation, as the matter was dropped. I think I'm going to use that as my go-to response from now on.

Talk to the hand

Today on Match Game the contestant chose the answer he was gay. All the celebrities, but one, stated, ‘Queen’ and it was not allowed. Then one celebrity stated, ‘He was sweet’. The judges felt that was gay. Strange.

R134, I’m a couple of years older than you. When I started hanging out with other gay men in the mid-'70s, “chickenhawk” already sounded a bit antique, although I do remember the word being used occasionally.

"Chicken”, on the other hand, was alive and well in those days, at least in DC. It was the standard word for cute, boyish types under the age of … oh, say, 22.

Bear in mind that “twink” did not yet exist – or, if it did, it wasn’t current with the crowd I knew – so there really wasn’t any other slang word for the type, not that they’re exactly the same. Twinks can be older than would have been considered chicken back in the day.

R160 and R336, reefer is a great word. It should be revived.

Calling a hot stud a 'young spaz'.

I wonder what has replaced some of these terms. I know “trick” is dated, but if “one-night stand” is also obsolete (is it really?), what does one call someone with whom one had a single sexual encounter?

While the activity formerly known as cruising is less common today, I’m pretty sure it hasn’t vanished completely. Also, the verb “cruise” was used to mean making eye contact with the idea of conveying sexual interest. “That guy is cruising me.” So … what is this called today?

Also, do fag hags no longer exist? Or are they called something else now? Or do they exist, but it’s too un-PC to acknowledge that fact?

What if a frat boy uses those terms or anything considered obsolete? I was born with an old soul and doesn't concern me to use terms or phrases my grandparents used. It's damned sad to see a man acting a like thug or trying to be modern and trendy, especially with goofy backwards baseball caps.

Male chauvinist pig

[quote]what does one call someone with whom one had a single sexual encounter?

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I love the word spaz, and it is woefully underused.

[quote]I love the word spaz, and it is woefully underused.

I prefer spastic.

England here.

Butch poof.

One night stands are called "hook-ups"

Ixnay on the Agfay

Want to get it on...

Heavens to Betsy!

Is that a sword in your pocket or are you just excited to see me?