{{short description|Slang used predominantly among the LGBTQ community}} {{protection padlock|small=yes}} {{LGBTQ sidebar|culture}} '''LGBTQ slang''', '''LGBTQ speak''' or '''queer slang''' is a set of English slang [[lexicon]] used predominantly among [[LGBTQ]] people. It has been used in various languages since the early 20th century as a means by which members of the [[LGBTQ community]] identify themselves and speak in code with brevity and speed to others.<ref name="Baker 2002">{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=Paul |author-link=Paul Baker (linguist) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yxHz97AvesUC&q=gay%20slang&pg=PP9 |title=Polari – The Lost Language of Gay Men |publisher=Routledge |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-203-16704-5 |page=1 |access-date=17 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231115180305/https://books.google.com/books?id=yxHz97AvesUC&q=gay%20slang&pg=PP9 |archive-date=15 November 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Long">{{cite book |last1=Long |first1=Daniel |title=Formation Processes of Some Japanese Gay Argot Terms |volume=71 |number=2 |year=1996 |pages=215–224 |publisher=[[Duke University Press]]}}</ref>
LGBTQ slang has played an integral part in [[LGBTQ culture]] for decades. Slang language initially emerged as a way for queer people to communicate with one another while avoiding detection by mainstream society.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gill |first1=Liz |title=Lavender linguistics |id={{ProQuest|189144744}} |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jul/14/referenceandlanguages.gayrights |work=The Guardian |date=14 July 2003 |access-date=18 April 2023 |archive-date=8 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408115800/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jul/14/referenceandlanguages.gayrights |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Queer]] people have always existed,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-12 |title=Queer People Have Always Existed—Teach Like It |url=https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/queer-people-have-always-existed-teach-like-it |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=Learning for Justice |language=en |archive-date=2023-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406190236/https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/queer-people-have-always-existed-teach-like-it |url-status=live }}</ref> but historically, they have had to be discreet about their identities and lives, particularly when being LGBTQ was illegal and/or socially condemned.
LGBTQ slang is used as a way to signal one's identity and build solidarity within the community. When queer people use these certain words and phrases, they demonstrate to others that they are part of the LGBTQ community and share a common experience. This connection can create a sense of belonging for those historically rejected and isolated by mainstream society.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Katz-Wise |first1=Sabra L. |last2=Rosario |first2=Margaret |last3=Tsappis |first3=Michael |date=December 2016 |title=Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth and Family Acceptance |journal=Pediatric Clinics of North America |language=en |volume=63 |issue=6 |pages=1011–1025 |doi=10.1016/j.pcl.2016.07.005 |pmc=5127283 |pmid=27865331}}</ref>
LGBTQ slang is also used by the community as a means of [[reclaiming]] language and deconstructing oppressive norms. Queer slang often includes playful references to sexual acts, which can serve as an assertion of sexual agency and a rejection of shame.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Former Slur Is Reclaimed, And Listeners Have Mixed Feelings |website=[[NPR]] |date=21 August 2019 |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2019/08/21/752330316/a-former-slur-is-reclaimed-and-listeners-have-mixed-feelings |access-date=2023-04-06 |archive-date=2023-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406190349/https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2019/08/21/752330316/a-former-slur-is-reclaimed-and-listeners-have-mixed-feelings |url-status=live |last1=Rocheleau |first1=Juliette }}</ref>
==History and context==
Because of [[sodomy law]]s and threat of prosecution due to the criminalization of homosexuality, LGBTQ slang has served as an [[argot]] or [[Cant (language)|cant]], a secret language and a way for the LGBTQ community to communicate with each other publicly without revealing their sexual orientation to others.<ref name="Long" /><ref name="Cage and Evans">{{cite book |last1=Cage |first1=Ken |title=Gayle: The Language of Kinks and Queens: a History and Dictionary of Gay Language in South Africa |date=2003 |publisher=Jacana Media |isbn=978-1-919931-49-4 |page=16 }}</ref><ref name="Hamaida">{{cite web |last1=Hamaida |first1=Lena |url=http://www.euroconferences.info/proceedings/2007_Proceedings/2007_Hamaidia_Lena.pdf |title=Subtitling Slang and Dialect |publisher=EU High Level Scientific Conference |year=2007 |page=5 |access-date=17 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101022754/http://www.euroconferences.info/proceedings/2007_Proceedings/2007_Hamaidia_Lena.pdf |archive-date=1 January 2011 }}</ref> Since the advent of [[queer studies]] in universities, LGBTQ slang and argot has become a subject of academic research among [[linguistic anthropology]] scholars.<ref name="Frank">{{cite journal |last1=Proschan |first1=Frank |title=Review: Recognizing Gay and Lesbian Speech |journal=American Anthropologist |publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]] |volume=99 |number=1 |year=1997 |pages=164–166 |jstor=682150 |doi=10.1525/aa.1997.99.1.164 }}</ref>
[[File:Butch Femme Society by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|right|The Butch and Femme Society]]
During the first seven decades of the 20th century, a specific form of [[Polari]] was developed by gay men and lesbians in urban centres of the United Kingdom within established LGBTQ communities. Polari was featured on the BBC radio programme ''[[Round the Horne]]'' in 1964, exposing the wider public to the secret language.<ref>{{cite web |title=Round the Horne |url=https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/march/round-the-horne/ |work=History of the BBC |date=7 March 1965 |access-date=17 April 2023 |archive-date=18 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418143701/https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/march/round-the-horne/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Blake |first=Barry J. |author-link=Barry Blake |title=Secret language |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-157371-2 |location=Oxford |page=226 |oclc=610210470}}</ref> Although there are differences, contemporary British gay slang has adopted many Polari words.<ref name="Baker 2002" /><ref name="Quinion">{{cite web |last1=Quinion |first1=Michael |author-link=Michael Quinion |year=1996 |title=How Bona to Vada Your Eek! |url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/polari.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190907173251/http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/polari.htm |archive-date=7 September 2019 |access-date=4 April 2010 |publisher=[[World Wide Words]]}}</ref> The 1964 legislative report ''[[Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida]]'' contains an extensive appendix documenting and defining the homosexual slang in the United States at that time.<ref name="Forida Memory">{{cite web |title=Reports of Investigators on Meetings of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Ku Klux Klan |date=27 July 1964 |url=http://www.floridamemory.com/exhibits/FloridaHighlights/investigation/ |publisher=State Archives and Library of Florida |access-date=9 April 2019 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208194307/https://www.floridamemory.com/exhibits/floridahighlights/investigation/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Howard">{{cite book| last = Howard| first = John| title = Carryin' on in the Lesbian and Gay South| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4WQKdy2BnYC&pg=PA132| year = 1997| publisher = NYU Press| isbn = 978-0-8147-3560-2| page = 132 }}</ref> [[SCRUFF]] launched a gay-slang dictionary app in 2014, which includes commonly used slang in the United States from the gay community.<ref name="Huffington Post 2014">{{cite news |title=SCRUFF, Gay App, Launches 'Gay Slang Dictionary' |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/12/scruff-gay-slang-dictiona_n_4577570.html |access-date=24 March 2014 |newspaper=[[Huffington Post]] |date=12 March 2014 |archive-date=30 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170530050759/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/12/scruff-gay-slang-dictiona_n_4577570.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Specialized dictionaries that record LGBTQ slang have been found to revolve heavily around [[sexual matters]].<ref name="Jacobs 1996">{{cite journal |last1=Jacobs |first1=Greg |year=1996 |title=Lesbian and Gay Male Language Use: A Critical Review of the Literature |journal=[[American Speech]] |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=49–71 |doi=10.2307/455469 |jstor=455469}}</ref>
Slang is ephemeral; terms used in one generation may pass out of usage in another. For example, in the 1960s and 1970s, the terms "cottage" (chiefly British) and "tearoom" (chiefly American) were used to denote public toilets used for sex. By 1999, this terminology had fallen out of use to the point of being greatly unrecognizable by members of the [[LGBTQ community]] at large.<ref name="Leap">{{cite book |last1=Leap |first1=William |author-link=William Leap |title=Public Sex/gay Space |date=1999 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-10691-7 |page=61}}</ref>
Many terms that originated as gay slang have become part of the popular lexicon. The word drag was first used by [[William Dorsey Swann]], a freed African American slave. Swann referred to himself as the "queen of drag" in the 1880s and 1890s.<ref>Shane, Cari. "The First Self-Proclaimed Drag Queen Was a Formerly Enslaved Man." Smithsonian Magazine. Accessed September 23, 2025. <nowiki>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-first-self-proclaimed-drag-queen-was-a-formerly-enslaved-man-180982311/</nowiki>.</ref> ''[[drag (clothing)|Drag]]'' was later popularized by [[Hubert Selby Jr.]] in his book ''[[Last Exit to Brooklyn]]''. ''Drag'' has been traced back by the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] (OED) to the late 19th century. Conversely, words such as "[[banjee]]", while well-established in a subset of gay society, have never made the transition to popular use. Conversations between gay men have been found to use more slang and fewer commonly known terms about sexual behavior than conversations between straight men.<ref name="Lumby">{{cite journal|last=Lumby|first=Malcolm E.|title=Code Switching and Sexual Orientation: A Test of Bernstein's Sociolinguistic Theory|journal=Journal of Homosexuality|year=1976|volume=1|issue=4|pages=383–399|doi=10.1300/j082v01n04_03|pmid=1018102}}</ref>
In the Philippines, many LGBTQ people speak with [[Swardspeak]], or "gay lingo", which is a more extensive use of slang as a form of dialect or way of speaking. Other argots are spoken in southern Africa ([[Gayle language]] and [[IsiNgqumo]]) and Indonesia ([[Bahasa Binan]]). More specifically, in a country like Thailand, LGBTQ slang was always present in their history due to their religious, behavioral, and social nature. However, before the term LGBTQ was introduced, the Thai community would use the terms Kathoey and Tom. The term Kathoey was used to describe transgender women who dress, act, or partake in surgery to become female, and the term Tom as well as "handsome girls" in Thai was used to describe women who liked women. Homosexuality and transgenderism has always existed throughout their history, as their behavioral nature did not align with heterosexual ideals.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vatjinda |first=Sutatta |date=January 2022 |title=A Study of Translation Strategies Used in the Diary Of Tootsie's LGBTQ Slang |journal=Language in India |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=115–134 [117] |url=http://languageinindia.com/jan2022/sutattatranslationoflgbtqslangwordsinThai.pdf |access-date=2023-04-18 |archive-date=2023-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418221456/http://languageinindia.com/jan2022/sutattatranslationoflgbtqslangwordsinThai.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
==General slang terms==
* 100-footer – an obviously gay or lesbian person (as if visible from 100 feet away) (US)<ref name="Brabaw">{{cite web |last1=Brabaw |first1=Kasandra |title=17 Lesbian Slang Terms Every Baby Gay Needs To Learn |website=[[Refinery29]] |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/lesbian-slang-terms-definitions |access-date=17 March 2019 |archive-date=19 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230619215450/http://www.refinery29.com/en-us/lesbian-slang-terms-definitions |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{Anchor|Achillean}}{{wt|en|Achillean|i=-}} or {{wt|en|MLM|i=-}} (man-loving-man) – an umbrella term for attractions and relationships between men, regardless of their [[Sexual orientation|sexual]] or [[romantic orientation]], sometimes including non-binary [[androphile]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elástica explica: termos juvélicos |url=https://elastica.abril.com.br/especiais/termos-juvelicos-genero-atracao-aquileano-safica/ |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=Elástica – Todos do mesmo lado |language=pt-BR |archive-date=2022-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522045423/https://elastica.abril.com.br/especiais/termos-juvelicos-genero-atracao-aquileano-safica/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Theil |first=Michele |date=2024-10-23 |title=The fascinating meaning behind the MLM term 'Achillean' |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/10/23/what-does-achillean-mean-in-lgbtq-terminology/ |access-date=2025-10-08 |website=[[PinkNews]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241219054141/https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/10/23/what-does-achillean-mean-in-lgbtq-terminology/|archive-date=2024-12-19}}</ref> Sometimes known as Vincian,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wrightson-Hester |first1=Aimee-Rose |last2=Anderson |first2=Georgia |last3=Dunstan |first3=Joel |last4=McEvoy |first4=Peter M. |last5=Sutton |first5=Christopher J. |last6=Myers |first6=Bronwyn |last7=Egan |first7=Sarah |last8=Tai |first8=Sara |last9=Johnston-Hollitt |first9=Melanie |last10=Chen |first10=Wai |last11=Gedeon |first11=Tom |last12=Mansell |first12=Warren |date=2023-07-21 |title=An Artificial Therapist (Manage Your Life Online) to Support the Mental Health of Youth: Co-Design and Case Series |journal=JMIR Human Factors |language=EN |volume=10 |issue=1 |article-number=e46849 |doi=10.2196/46849 |pmid=37477969 |pmc=10403793 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Familia |first=Nitzan |date=2023 |title=A Critique of Michèle Montrelay's Theorizations of Masculine and Feminine Sexuality: On Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, and the "Queer" Signifier |url=https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/articles/a-critique-of-michele-montrelays-theorizations-on-masculine-and-feminine-sexuality |journal=[[European Journal of Psychoanalysis]]}}</ref> referencing [[sexuality of Leonardo da Vinci|the sexuality of Leonardo da Vinci]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vincian {{!}} definition by Lexicon Library.LGBT |url=https://lexicon.library.lgbt/definitions/vincian/ |access-date=2025-11-23 |website=lexicon.library.lgbt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wrightson-Hester |first1=Aimee-Rose |last2=Anderson |first2=Georgia |last3=Dunstan |first3=Joel |last4=McEvoy |first4=Peter M. |last5=Sutton |first5=Christopher J. |last6=Myers |first6=Bronwyn |last7=Egan |first7=Sarah |last8=Tai |first8=Sara |last9=Johnston-Hollitt |first9=Melanie |last10=Chen |first10=Wai |last11=Gedeon |first11=Tom |last12=Mansell |first12=Warren |date=2023-07-21 |title=An Artificial Therapist (Manage Your Life Online) to Support the Mental Health of Youth: Co-Design and Case Series |journal=JMIR Human Factors |language=EN |volume=10 |issue=1 |article-number=e46849 |doi=10.2196/46849 |pmid=37477969 |pmc=10403793 |doi-access=free }}</ref> or [[Uranian (sexuality)|Uranian]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Of uranians, homosexuals, queers, and straight -acting men: Examining concepts of homoerotic expression among self-identified gay men using a grounded theory approach – ProQuest |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/6a2a7ef1d2f538355eb4a27a068a5844/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250416184157/https://www.proquest.com/openview/6a2a7ef1d2f538355eb4a27a068a5844/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y |archive-date=2025-04-16 |access-date=2025-11-23 |website=www.proquest.com |language=en |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Gay bathhouse|baths]] – bathhouses frequented by gay men for sexual encounters (US)<ref name="Max">{{cite book |last1=Max |first1=H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VBo1AAAACAAJ |title=Gay(s) Language: A Dic(k)tionary of Gay Slang |publisher=Banned Books |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-934411-15-8 |page=50 |access-date=2015-07-02 |archive-date=2024-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310015456/https://books.google.com/books?id=VBo1AAAACAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> * beach bitch – a gay man who frequents beaches and resorts for sexual encounters (US)<ref name="Max" /> * [[Beard (companion)|beard]] – a person used as a date, romantic partner, or spouse to conceal one's sexual orientation{{sfn|Green|2005|p=83}} * [[Gay beat|beat]] – an area frequented by gay men, where sexual acts occur (Australia)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Moore|first=Clive|year=1995|title=Poofs in the Park: Documenting Gay 'Beats' in Queensland, Australia|journal=GLQ|volume=2|pages=319–339|issue=3|doi=10.1215/10642684-2-3-319}}</ref> * bent – gay, as opposed to [[Heterosexuality|straight]] (UK)<ref name="Max" /> * bender – someone who has homosexual intercourse (UK)<ref name="Max" /> * [[Breast binding|binding]] – a technique in which individuals wear tight clothing, bandages, or compression garments, known as binders, to hide and flatten their breasts * [[Top, bottom and versatile|bottom]] – a receptive partner in intercourse; also used as a verb for the state of receiving sexual stimulation<ref name="Max" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilder |first=Elio |date=21 June 2021 |title=Lesbian Slang: A Not So Comprehensive Guide |url=https://www.onewomanproject.org/lgbtqia/lesbian-slang-a-not-so-comprehensive-guide |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240217201108/https://www.onewomanproject.org/lgbtqia/lesbian-slang-a-not-so-comprehensive-guide |archive-date=February 17, 2024 |access-date=February 17, 2024 |website=One Woman Project}}</ref> ** {{wt|en|power bottom|i=-}} – someone who dominantly or energetically plays the receptive role in intercourse<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zane |first=Zachary |date=2021-07-15 |title=Are You a Power Bottom? Here's How to Tell. |url=https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a37023996/power-bottom-definition/ |access-date=2022-05-23 |website=Men's Health |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601124334/https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a37023996/power-bottom-definition/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{Wt|en|bussy|italic=-}} – [[portmanteau]] of "boy pussy"; a male anus, in the context of [[anal sex]]. Also used to refer to a [[trans man]]'s vulva<ref>{{Cite web|last=Zane|first=Zachary|date=2021-05-24|title=How Gay Men Actually Feel About the Word 'Bussy'|url=https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a36463714/bussy-meaning-definition/|access-date=2021-08-02|website=Men's Health|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802000954/https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a36463714/bussy-meaning-definition/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kuga |first=Mitchell |date=2020 |title=Let Me Analyze That Bussy |url=https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/what-is-a-bussy |access-date=July 6, 2022 |website=Mel Magazine |archive-date=July 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706212527/https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/what-is-a-bussy |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{wt|en|butch queen|i=-}} – in [[ball culture]], a gay male who presents as a gay male; that is, neither as a trans individual nor a heteronormative male. This mostly refers to someone who looks the part of what most would identify as "gay"<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Ballroom Glossary: A list of terms you should know. |url=https://www.truetpgh.com/news/the-ballroom-glossary-a-list-of-terms-you-should-know |access-date=2022-06-05 |website=www.truetpgh.com |archive-date=2020-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211193431/https://www.truetpgh.com/news/the-ballroom-glossary-a-list-of-terms-you-should-know }}</ref> * butchy femme – a gender expression between femme and futch<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Mathers |first=Charlie |date=2018-05-07 |title=Here are 15 futch scale memes only queer women will understand |url=https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/futch-scale-meme/ |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=[[Gay Star News]] |language=en-GB |archive-date=2022-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519192545/https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/futch-scale-meme/ }}</ref> * [[Camp (style)|camp, campy]] – exaggerated and amusing, in a way that is typically associated with gay men or femininity<ref>{{Cite web |title=What Does Camp Mean In Slang & How To Use It. |url=https://fluentslang.com/what-does-camp-mean-in-slang/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621203030/https://fluentslang.com/what-does-camp-mean-in-slang/ |archive-date=2023-06-21 |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=www.fluentslang.com|date=17 January 2023 }}</ref> * clone – a San Francisco or New York [[Greenwich Village]] denizen with exaggerated macho behavior and appearance (US)<ref name="Max" /> * [[closeted]] – keeping one's sexuality or gender identity a secret from others<ref name="Max" /> * [[cocksucker]] – a person who practices [[fellatio]], usually a gay male<ref name="Max" /> * [[Coming out|come out (of the closet)]] – to admit or publicly acknowledge oneself as non-heterosexual/non-cisgender<ref name="Max" /> * [[cottaging]] – having or seeking anonymous gay sex in a public toilet, or "cottage" (UK)<ref name="Baker 2010">{{Cite book |last1=Baker |first1=Paul |author-link=Paul Baker (linguist) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T72TJfZoywAC |title=Fantabulosa: The Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-8264-7343-1 |access-date=17 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704012413/https://books.google.com/books?id=T72TJfZoywAC |archive-date=4 July 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|p=22}} * [[Cruising for sex|cruising]] – seeking a casual gay sex encounter (historically from [[ancient Rome]])<ref name="Max" /><ref name="Dynes">{{cite book |last1=Dynes |first1=Wayne R. |author-link=Wayne R. Dynes |title=Encyclopedia of homosexuality. Volume II |date=2016-03-22 |isbn=978-1-317-36811-3 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |oclc=953858681}}</ref> * [[Down-low (sexual slang)|down-low]] – homosexual or bisexual activity, kept secret, by [[men who have sex with men]] (US)<ref name="Coming Up from the Down Low">{{cite book |last1=King |first1=J.L. |author-link=J. L. King |url=https://www.enotalone.com/article/lgbtq/the-cycle-coming-up-from-the-down-low-r5642/ |title=Coming Up from the Down Low: The Journey to Acceptance, Healing and Honest Love |last2=Carreras |first2=Courtney |date=25 April 2006 |publisher=[[Three Rivers Press]] |page=36 |access-date=18 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516193033/https://www.enotalone.com/article/lgbtq/the-cycle-coming-up-from-the-down-low-r5642/ |archive-date=16 May 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Secret Gay">{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Jason |title=Secret Gay Encounters of Black Men Could Be Raising Women's Infection Rate |publisher=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=1 May 2005 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/01/MNG4TCID0F1.DTL&type=health |access-date=18 December 2009 |archive-date=31 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131080800/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2005%2F05%2F01%2FMNG4TCID0F1.DTL&type=health |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Black masculinities">{{cite book |last1=Mutua |first1=Athena |title=Progressive Black Masculinities |publisher=[[Routledge]] |page=169 |isbn=978-0-415-97687-9 |date=28 September 2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAzEzR3dap4C&q=%22down%20low%22%2C%20adapted%20by%20a%20subculture%20of%20black%20men&pg=PT197 |access-date=18 December 2009 |archive-date=22 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231222072025/https://books.google.com/books?id=GAzEzR3dap4C&q=%22down%20low%22%2C%20adapted%20by%20a%20subculture%20of%20black%20men&pg=PT197 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Outing Hip-Hop">{{cite news |last1=Bennett |first1=Jessica |author-link=Jessica Bennett (journalist) |date=19 May 2008 |title=Outing Hip-Hop |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/137380/page/1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006205253/http://www.newsweek.com/id/137380/page/1 |archive-date=6 October 2008 |access-date=19 December 2009 |publisher=[[Newsweek]]}}</ref> * [[en femme]], [[en homme]] – the act of wearing clothes stereotypically of the opposite sex<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boyd |first1=Helen |author-link=Helen Boyd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qezatAEACAAJ |title=My Husband Betty: Love, Sex and Life with a Cross-Dresser |publisher=Sdal Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-56025-515-4 |page=64 |access-date=2024-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240930003329/https://www.google.com/books/edition/My_Husband_Betty/qezatAEACAAJ |archive-date=2024-09-30 |url-status=live}}</ref> * [[femboy]] – a male who presents in a traditionally feminine manner<ref>{{cite web |title=femboy |url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/femboy/ |access-date=20 November 2021 |website=Dictionary.com |date=26 January 2021 |archive-date=10 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610074058/https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/femboy/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Femboy definition and meaning |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/femboy |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=[[Collins English Dictionary]] |archive-date=2021-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016094217/https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/femboy |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[femme]] – a feminine homosexual<ref name="Brabaw" /> * {{wt|en|folx|i=-}} – a shorter alternative to folks<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-31 |title=What You Need To Know About the Letter 'X' in Words Like Folx, Womxn, and Latinx |url=https://www.wellandgood.com/folx-meaning/ |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=[[Well+Good]] |language=en |archive-date=2022-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601111633/https://www.wellandgood.com/folx-meaning/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{wt|en|futch|i=-}} – a gender expression between femme and butch, or a feminine butch<ref name=":3" /> * Game of Flats – an 18th-century English term for sex between women<ref name="Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England">{{cite book |last=Norton |first=Rictor |author-link=Rictor Norton |url=http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/1749flat.htm |title="The Game of Flats, 1749" Homosexuality in Eighteenth Century England: A Sourcebook |date=30 March 2003 |publisher=Sterling Publishing |isbn=978-0-304-36636-1 |access-date=15 October 2007 |orig-date=14 April 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124111648/http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/1749flat.htm |archive-date=2008-01-24}} The reference is to A. G. Busbequius, Travels into Turkey, English translation (London, 1744). The original book, published much earlier, was invariably cited whenever lesbianism was mentioned, e.g., William Walsh's A Dialogue Concerning Women (London, 1691) and in [[Martin Schurig]]'s Muliebria Historico-Medica (1729).</ref> * [[gaydar]] – the supposed ability to detect someone's sexual orientation (from ''gay'' + ''[[radar]]''). Corresponding terms include {{Wt|en|lesdar}}, {{Wt|en|bidar}}, {{Wt|en|transdar}}, and {{Wt|en|queerdar}} * [[gaymer]] – an LGBTQ person who plays [[video games]] (from ''gay'' + ''[[gamer]]'') * gaysian – a gay [[Asian person]]<ref name="Gaysian">{{cite web|title=The Gaysian|url=http://www.thegaysian.com/|access-date=2019-04-15|archive-date=2019-04-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415010208/http://www.thegaysian.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> * {{wt|en|girlfag|i=-}} – a woman attracted to gay/bisexual men, also may refer to some gay men or non-binary people<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hardy |first=Janet W. |author-link=Janet Hardy |title=Girlfag: a life told in sex and musicals |date=2012 |publisher=SCB Distributors |isbn=978-1-938123-01-6 |at=Summary |oclc=858621985}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2019-05-25 |title=Who are girlfags & guydykes? • Girlfags & Guydykes |work=Girlfags & Guydykes • Schwule Frauen, lesbische Männer & genderqueere Einhörner |url=https://girlfags-guydykes.bine.net/en/who-are-girlfags-guydykes/ |access-date=2022-04-21 |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416222753/https://girlfags-guydykes.bine.net/en/who-are-girlfags-guydykes/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last1=Lindqvist |first1=Siri |last2=Carlström |first2=Charlotta |date=2020-12-01 |title=Girlfags and guydykes: 'Too queer for straights and too straight for queers' |journal=Journal of Positive Sexuality |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=45–65 |doi=10.51681/1.621 }}</ref> * [[gold star (slang)|gold star]] – a homosexual who has never had heterosexual sexual intercourse<ref name="Brabaw" /> * gouinage (Brazil) – [[non-penetrative sex]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-11 |title=O que é gouinage? Conheça prática do sexo sem penetração: 'Corpo todo é uma zona erógena' |url=https://revistamarieclaire.globo.com/sexo/noticia/2023/11/o-que-e-gouinage-conheca-pratica-do-sexo-sem-penetracao-corpo-todo-e-uma-zona-erogena.ghtml |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=Marie Claire |language=pt-br |archive-date=2024-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516235732/https://revistamarieclaire.globo.com/sexo/noticia/2023/11/o-que-e-gouinage-conheca-pratica-do-sexo-sem-penetracao-corpo-todo-e-uma-zona-erogena.ghtml |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gouinage: entenda a prática que proporciona prazer sem penetração |url=https://claudia.abril.com.br/amor-e-sexo/gouinage-sexo-o-que-e/ |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=CLAUDIA |language=pt-BR |archive-date=2024-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516235730/https://claudia.abril.com.br/amor-e-sexo/gouinage-sexo-o-que-e/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Named after [[LGBTQ slang#gouine|gouine]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nem ativos nem passivos, 'gouines' são gays que não curtem penetração |url=https://www.uol.com.br/universa/noticias/redacao/2013/10/09/nem-ativos-nem-passivos-gouines-sao-gays-que-nao-curtem-penetracao.htm |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=www.uol.com.br |language=pt-br |archive-date=2024-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317044218/https://www.uol.com.br/universa/noticias/redacao/2013/10/09/nem-ativos-nem-passivos-gouines-sao-gays-que-nao-curtem-penetracao.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> similar to [[LGBTQ slang#side|side]]<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Souza Filho |first=Cristóvão Alves de |date=2022-01-11 |title=Comportamento sexual e saúde sexual de homens que fazem sexo com homens: impactos da COVID-19 |url=http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/jspui/handle/123456789/10673 |publisher=Federal University of Alagoas |access-date=2024-05-16 |archive-date=2024-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516235735/https://www.repositorio.ufal.br/jspui/handle/123456789/10673 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Nunes |first1=Rômulo Veloso |last2=de Araújo |first2=Telma Maria Evangelista |last3=de Oliveira |first3=Layze Braz |last4=Almeida |first4=Priscilla Dantas |last5=Lima |first5=Shirley Veronica Melo Almeida |last6=Magalhães |first6=Rosilane de Lima Brito |last7=Valle |first7=Andréia Rodrigues Moura da Costa |last8=Fronteira |first8=Inês |last9=Mendes |first9=Isabel Amélia Costa |last10=de Sousa |first10=Álvaro Francisco Lopes |date=November–December 2023 |title=Sexual Practices and Predisposition to PrEP Use Among Men Ages 50 Years and Older Who Have Sex With Men: A Cross-Sectional Study |journal=The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care |volume=34 |issue=6 |pages=548–565 |doi=10.1097/JNC.0000000000000433 |issn=1552-6917 |pmid=37815844 }}</ref> * [[g0y]] – a man attracted to men who does not identify as gay or bisexual and is not willing to do [[anal intercourse]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Almeida |first1=Álvaro de |last2=Castro |first2=Pedro |last3=Razuck |first3=Fernando |last4=Mamede |first4=Walner |last5=Almeida |first5=Álvaro de |last6=Castro |first6=Pedro |last7=Razuck |first7=Fernando |last8=Mamede |first8=Walner |date=May 2017 |title=Gênero e identidade masculina no novo milênio: A homoafetividade e a visão social baseada na filosofia comportamental gØy (g-zero-y) |url=http://www.scielo.edu.uy/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1688-70262017000100199&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=pt |journal=Psicología, Conocimiento y Sociedad |language=pt |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=199–225 |doi=10.26864/v7n1.9 |issn=1688-7026 |access-date=2024-05-16 |archive-date=2024-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206232608/http://www.scielo.edu.uy/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1688-70262017000100199&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=pt |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-01-12 |title=Conheça os 'g0ys', homens que se relacionam entre si, mas dizem não ser gays |url=https://extra.globo.com/noticias/mundo/conheca-os-g0ys-homens-que-se-relacionam-entre-si-mas-dizem-nao-ser-gays-12218506.html |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=Extra Online |language=pt-BR |archive-date=2022-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126054518/https://extra.globo.com/noticias/mundo/conheca-os-g0ys-homens-que-se-relacionam-entre-si-mas-dizem-nao-ser-gays-12218506.html |url-status=live }}</ref> * guydyke or [[wikt:lesboy|lesboy]] – a man/boy attracted to lesbian/bisexual women,<ref name=":0" /> also may be used to refer to a non-binary person<ref>{{Cite web |last=SlangDefine.org |title=Slang Define: What is Lesboy? – meaning and definition |url=https://slangdefine.org/l/lesboy-2900.html |access-date=2022-04-21 |website=slangdefine.org |language=en |archive-date=2022-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601153639/https://slangdefine.org/l/lesboy-2900.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-04-16 |title=The Wonderful and Confusing World of Girlfags and Guydykes |url=https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/ |access-date=2022-04-21 |website=Fair Observer |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519220212/http://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":4" /> * [[heteroflexible]] – to be mostly heterosexual<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thompson |first1=Elisabeth Morgan |last2=Morgan |first2=Elizabeth M. |title='Mostly straight' young women: variations in sexual behavior and identity development |journal=Developmental Psychology |date=January 2008 |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=15–21 |doi=10.1037/0012-1649.44.1.15 |pmid=18194001 |s2cid=14336659 }}</ref> * [[homoflexible]] – to be mostly gay * molly – In 18th century England, the term "molly" was used for male homosexuals, implying [[effeminacy]]. See [[Molly house]] * {{wt|en|outsider|i=-}} – being "neither/nor" when it comes to normative taboos and self-centered communities<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bornstein |first1=Kate |author-link=Kate Bornstein |date=19 June 2019 |title=Kate Bornstein: My Gender? Oh, It's Nothing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/kate-bornstein-gender-reflection.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112180358/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/kate-bornstein-gender-reflection.html |archive-date=12 January 2023 |access-date=12 January 2023 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> * platinum star – (see 'gold star' above) a gay man who was born by a [[Caesarean section|C-section procedure]] and who has never had sex with a woman. Originating from a joke in [[Will and Grace]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/recap/will-grace-season-9-episode-3/|title=''Will & Grace'' recap: 'Emergency Contact'|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|last=Kirkland|first=Justin|date=12 October 2017|access-date=22 December 2021}}</ref> but has taken on non-comedic connotations<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stop trying to divide the LGBTQ community even more than it already is |url=https://themaneater.com/stop-trying-to-divide-the-lgbtq-community-even-more-than-it-already-is/ |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=themaneater.com |date=10 December 2018 |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213100215/https://themaneater.com/stop-trying-to-divide-the-lgbtq-community-even-more-than-it-already-is/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * poz – HIV-positive person (US)<ref name="SCRUFF">{{cite web |title=Scruff, Gay Slang Dictionary |url=http://www.scruff.com/slang/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006091329/http://www.scruff.com/slang/ |archive-date=October 6, 2016 |access-date=March 24, 2014}}</ref> * [[queer]] – originally a slur against homosexuals, transgender people, and anyone who does not fit society's standards of gender and sexuality; later reclaimed and used as umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities<ref name="Dynes" /> * [[Sapphism|sapphic]] or {{wt|en|WLW|i=-}} (woman-loving-woman) – used to encompass attractions and relationships between women, regardless of their sexual or romantic orientation, sometimes including non-binary [[gynephile]]s<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-27 |title=What Does It Mean to Be Sapphic? |url=https://www.them.us/story/what-does-sapphic-mean |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=[[them.]] |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519194635/https://www.them.us/story/what-does-sapphic-mean |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Sapphic – What is it? What does it mean? |url=https://taimi.com/wiki/sapphic-what-is-it-what-does-it-mean |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=[[Taimi]] |language=en |archive-date=2022-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515065027/https://taimi.com/wiki/sapphic-what-is-it-what-does-it-mean |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[scissoring]] – used to refer to lesbian intercourse, though is often derogatory * {{anchor|side}}[[Side (gay sex)|side]] – a homosexual male who does not enjoy anal penetration (giving or receiving), but will engage in other forms of same-sex activity (fellatio, [[frot]]tage, handjobs, etc.)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/20/rise-of-the-sides-how-grindr-finally-recognized-gay-men-who-arent-tops-or-bottoms |title=Rise of the sides: how Grindr finally recognized gay men who aren't tops or bottoms |last=Farber |first=Jim |work=The Guardian |date=June 20, 2022 |access-date=November 27, 2022 |archive-date=November 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127101701/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/20/rise-of-the-sides-how-grindr-finally-recognized-gay-men-who-arent-tops-or-bottoms |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{wt|en|slay|i=-}} – especially in [[ball culture]] to dress or be fashionable and flawless<ref>{{Cite web |title=How Did Slay Come To Describe Excellence? |url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/slay/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=Dictionary.com |date=18 October 2018 |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214055700/https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/slay/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-26 |title=The origins of "slay" |url=https://dailycal.org/2022/06/26/the-origins-of-slay/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=The Daily Californian |language=en |archive-date=2023-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420115136/https://dailycal.org/2022/06/26/the-origins-of-slay |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Khemani |first=Nikhil |title="Slay!" |url=https://theunisverse.com/2626/showcase/slay/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=The UNISVerse |archive-date=2023-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420114653/https://theunisverse.com/2626/showcase/slay/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Swish (slang)|swish]] – effeminate or effeminacy (US)<ref>{{cite web|title=swish definition, meaning|url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/swish|website=dictionary.cambridge.org|publisher=Cambridge Dictionaries Online|access-date=20 February 2015|quote=swish noun [C] (LIKE A WOMAN) › US slang disapproving a man who behaves or appears in a way that is generally considered more suited to a woman, and who does not have traditional male qualities|archive-date=21 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221013130/http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/swish|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=swish – Gay Slang Dictionary|url=http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&d=8&t=11636|access-date=28 February 2015|quote=swish #n. To overplay or over do homosexual gestures; the traits of an effeminate male homosexual. Source: [1930s] #Passive homosexual. #To walk speak or move in the manner of an weak effeminate boy or man; the stereotype effeminate homosexual.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402124519/http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&d=8&t=11636|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref> * [[Top, bottom, and versatile|switch]] – a person who enjoys both topping and bottoming, or being dominant and submissive, and may alternate between the two in sexual situations, adapting to their partner. Synonymous with vers * [[tomgirl]] – the equivalent of a [[tomboy]], but for boys with feminine traits * [[Top, bottom and versatile|top]] – the dominant or inserting sexual partner, usually in a homosexual relation or activity<ref name="SCRUFF" /> ** {{wt|en|service top|i=-}} – a submissive top, someone who applies sensation or control to a bottom, but does so at the bottom's explicit instructions * [[Tongzhi (term)|tongzhi]] (同志, "comrade", lit. "same will, same purpose") – a term used to describe members of LGBTQ communities in some [[Chinese languages]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-05-29 |title=Tongzhi: "Queer" Identity Politics in Hong Kong Before and After the Handover |url=https://notchesblog.com/2018/05/29/tongzhi-queer-identity-politics-in-hong-kong-before-and-after-the-handover/ |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=NOTCHES |language=en-GB |archive-date=2023-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621202640/https://notchesblog.com/2018/05/29/tongzhi-queer-identity-politics-in-hong-kong-before-and-after-the-handover/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Trade (gay slang)|trade]] – a straight-passing male partner, commonly used by gay men or trans women (derived from [[Polari]]) (US) ** also used as slang to indicate the action of "trading" pictures of penises, commonly used on social media * [[Top, bottom and versatile|vers]] – short for "versatile," a person who enjoys both topping and bottoming, or being dominant and submissive, and may alternate between the two in sexual situations, adapting to their partner
== Terms describing gay men == [[File:BearsMarchaGayDF.JPG|thumb|Bears at the 2009 Marcha Gay in Mexico City]] * artiste – a gay man who excels at fellatio<ref name="Max" /> * auntie – an older, often effeminate and gossipy gay man<ref name="Max" /> * bathsheba – a gay man who frequents gay bathhouses<ref name="Max" /> * bull queer – a gay man who exclusively tops in intercourse * [[Chicken (gay slang)|chicken]] – a youthful gay man * chubby chaser – a man who seeks overweight males<ref name="Max" /> * [[Daddy (slang)|daddy]] – a typically older gay man<ref name="SCRUFF" /> * flit<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for Flit">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=522}}</ref> * flower – a typically effeminate gay man<ref>{{cite web |title=flower – Gay Slang Dictionary |url=http://odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&t=70a4b19caeb0a26b6aa4abad61a4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402105140/http://odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&t=70a4b19caeb0a26b6aa4abad61a4 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |access-date=28 February 2015}}</ref> * [[friend of Dorothy]] – a gay person. Historically used as a [[shibboleth]] to identify other LGBTQ people.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Leap |first1=William |author-link=William Leap |title=Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language |last2=Boellstorff |first2=Tom |author-link2=Tom Boellstorff |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=2003 |isbn=0-252-07142-5 |page=98}}</ref> Likely a reference to [[Judy Garland]],<ref name=":1" /> who portrayed [[Dorothy Gale|Dorothy]] in [[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|''The Wizard of Oz'']] (1939) and had a large gay fan-base<ref>{{cite book |last=Haggerty |first=George E |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofga00ghag |title=Gay Histories and Cultures |publisher=Garland |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-8153-1880-4 |location=New York City}}</ref> * light in the loafers / light in the pants / light in the fedora{{sfn|Dalzell|Victor|2006|p=1208}}<!-- No definition? --> * punk – a smaller, younger gay man who, in prison settings, is forced into a submissive role and used for the older inmate's sexual pleasure<ref name="Dynes" /> * [[Queen (slang)|queen]] – a flamboyant or effeminate gay man.<ref name="Dynes" /> Alternatively, short for [[drag queen]] ** bean queen (also taco queen or Salsa queen), gay man attracted to Hispanic men<ref name="terms">{{cite web |title=''Dictionary of Sexual Terms'' |url=http://www.sex-lexis.com/SYNONYMS/Tijuana%20queen |access-date=2011-01-20 |publisher=Sex-lexis.com |archive-date=2011-07-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722112152/http://www.sex-lexis.com/SYNONYMS/Tijuana%20queen |url-status=live }}</ref> ** brownie queen – obsolete slang for gay man interested in anal sex (used by men who disliked anal sex)<ref>{{cite web |title=Interview |url=http://www.gaytoday.com/garchive/interview/120400in.htm |access-date=2013-09-01 |publisher=Gay Today |archive-date=2012-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107074451/http://www.gaytoday.com/garchive/interview/120400in.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> ** [[Chicken (gay slang)|chicken]] queen – an older gay man interested in younger or younger appearing men<ref name="TIME">{{cite news |date=September 8, 1975 |title=Crossing Signals |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917786,00.html |access-date=16 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209172608/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917786,00.html |archive-date=December 9, 2007}}</ref> ** grey queen – a gay person who works in [[financial services]]; grey flannel suits<ref>Rodgers, Bruce ''Gay Talk (The Queen's Vernacular): A Dictionary of Gay Slang'' New York: 1972 [[Parragon Books]], an imprint of G.P. Putnam's Sons Page 99</ref> ** {{Visible anchor|potato queen|text=potato queen}} – a gay Asian man attracted mainly to white men<ref name="Ayres T 1999">{{cite journal |last1=Ayres |first1=Tony |title=China Doll-The Experience of Being a Gay Chinese Australian |journal=Journal of Homosexuality |date=16 February 1999 |volume=36 |issue=3–4 |pages=87–97 |doi=10.1300/J082v36n03_05 |pmid=10197547 }}</ref> ** rice queen – a gay man attracted mainly to East Asian men<ref name="Ayres T 1999" /> * [[twink]] − a youthful, flamboyant gay man with a slim physique
=== Slurs against gay men ===
* anal assassin (UK) or "anal astronaut"<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for bootie-buster">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=161}}</ref> * arse bandit<ref>{{cite news |last1=Duffy |first1=Nick |title=UKIP candidate ranted about 'arse bandit' pride on Facebook |agency=PinkNews |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/04/27/ukip-candidate-ranted-about-arse-bandit-pride-on-facebook/ |access-date=30 June 2021 |archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182440/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/04/27/ukip-candidate-ranted-about-arse-bandit-pride-on-facebook/ |url-status=live }}</ref> or ass bandit<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/ass_bandit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128073004/https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/ass_bandit|archive-date=28 Jan 2020|title=ass bandit|website=lexico.com}}</ref> * backgammon player (late 18th century Britain)<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for Backgammon player">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=49}}</ref> * [[batty boy]] – a slur for gay or effeminate man ([[Jamaica]] and United Kingdom)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Scott |first1=Julia |date=May 22, 2015 |title=The Lonely Fight Against Belize's Antigay Laws |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/magazine/the-lonely-fight-against-belizes-antigay-laws.html |access-date=October 24, 2016 |archive-date=October 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006035252/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/magazine/the-lonely-fight-against-belizes-antigay-laws.html?_r=1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cayetano |first1=Isani |date=April 9, 2014 |title=Transgender woman is stoned and beaten by an angry mob |work=News 5 |location=Belize |url=http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/97600 |access-date=October 24, 2016 |archive-date=October 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025050259/http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/97600 |url-status=live }}</ref> * bent, bentshot or bender<ref name="Dalzell2008">{{harvnb|Dalzell|2008}}</ref> * [[Tranny Fag|bixa]]/{{wt|pt|bicha|i=-}} (Brazil)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tem sapata, viado e bixa: Narrativas feministas decoloniais no recreio escolar |url=https://www.queerlivros.com.br/produto/tem-sapata-viado-e-bixa-narrativas-feministas-decoloniais-no-recreio-escolar.html |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=Queer Livros {{!}} Livraria online {{!}} Sexualidade, gênero e classe |language=pt-br |archive-date=2022-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516182330/https://www.queerlivros.com.br/produto/tem-sapata-viado-e-bixa-narrativas-feministas-decoloniais-no-recreio-escolar.html |url-status=live }}</ref> * brownie king / brown piper<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for Brownie king">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=188}}</ref> * bufter, bufty (mainly Scottish) or booty buffer<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for bootie-buster" /> * bum boy / bum chum,<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for Bum boy">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=206}}</ref> also bum robber<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for bum robber">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=208}}</ref> * butt pirate,<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for Butt Pirate">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=226}}</ref> butt boy, butt rider, butt pilot, or butt rustler<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for Butt Pirate" /> * chi chi man (Jamaica and the Caribbean)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gutzmore |first1=Cecil |title=Casting the first stone!: Policing of Homo/Sexuality in Jamaican Popular Culture |journal=Interventions |date=April 2004 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=118–134 |doi=10.1080/1369801042000185697 |s2cid=145315595 }}</ref><ref name="Forbidden Words: Taboo and the">{{cite book |last1=Allan |first1=Keith |author-link1=Keith Allan (linguist) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2rCLYHjDMgC |title=Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language |last2=Burridge |first2=Kate |author-link2=Kate Burridge |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-521-81960-2 |page=156 |access-date=15 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310015527/https://books.google.com/books?id=b2rCLYHjDMgC |archive-date=10 March 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> * cockstruction worker – a gay, bi or queer man who works in [[construction industry]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Chloe O. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ug7hDwAAQBAJ&dq=cockstruction&pg=PA73 |title=The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases |date=2021-02-02 |publisher=Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed |isbn=978-0-593-13501-3 |language=en |access-date=2022-05-28 |archive-date=2024-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310015308/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ug7hDwAAQBAJ&dq=cockstruction&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q=cockstruction&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[faggot]] / fag – slur against gay men.<ref name="Reference.com">{{cite web |title=Faggot |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/faggot |access-date=November 16, 2013 |publisher=[[Reference.com]] |archive-date=February 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160227014915/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/faggot |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="American Heritage">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/americanheritage00edit_9 |title=The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-618-70172-8 |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title="Fag" definition, meaning. |url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/fag |access-date=1 March 2015 |website=dictionary.cambridge.org |publisher=Cambridge Dictionaries Online |quote=[C] US slang an offensive word for a gay man |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402192701/http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/fag |url-status=live }}</ref> First recorded in a [[Portland, Oregon]] publication in 1914<ref name="Dynes" /> * fairy – a slur, common in the 1920s and 1930s, reclaimed by gay men in the 1960s<ref name="Dynes" /><ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for fairy">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=485}}</ref> * ''[[wikt:faygele|faygele]]'' ({{Lit|little bird}}) – a [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]] word used as a pejorative term for a gay man (see [[Faggot#Etymology]]). * finocchio (from Italy, meaning fennel)<ref>{{cite book |author1=Edward Anthony Gibbons |title=A Cultural Affair |date=2008 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-0-595-61161-4 |page=6 |quote=On many, a cold freezing night, of temperatures hovering near zero, the finocchios tease and try to encourage Tedesco to join in their warm body orgies.}}</ref> * flamer<ref>{{cite web |title=Definition of flamer |url=http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/flamer |access-date=28 February 2015 |publisher=The Online Slang Dictionary |quote=flower ''n''. #A homosexual who takes the female role in a gay relationship. ''Source'': [1950s] |archive-date=15 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215220000/http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/flamer |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[fruit (slang)|fruit]] (also fruit loop, fruit packer, butt fruit) – a slur against gay men; originally a stereotype of gay men as "softer" and "smelling good"<ref name="Dynes" /><ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for Fruit et al.">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=549}}</ref> * fudge packer<ref name="Dalzell2008" /><ref name="Dalzell and Victor 2013">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbcBCgAAQBAJ&q=fudgepacker&pg=PR3 |title=The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English |date=2013 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-317-37252-3 |editor1-last=Dalzell |editor1-first=Tom |page=937 |editor2-last=Victor |editor2-first=Terry |access-date=2020-10-23 |archive-date=2024-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310015457/https://books.google.com/books?id=bbcBCgAAQBAJ&q=fudgepacker&pg=PR3#v=snippet&q=fudgepacker&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> * homo – shortening of homosexual, it is sometimes derogatory,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boswell |first1=John |author-link=John Boswell |title=Gays and the Military |year=1993 |isbn=978-1-4008-2104-4 |editor-last1=Wolinsky |editor-first1=Marc |pages=49–55 |chapter=On the Use of the Term 'Homo' as a Derogatory Epithet |doi=10.1515/9781400821044.49 |editor-last2=Sherrill |editor-first2=Kenneth}}</ref> though also used in a [[Reappropriation|reclaimed]] sense by some LGBTQ people * [[homo thug]]<ref>{{Cite book |author1-last=Petchauer |author1-first=Emery |author2-last=Yarhouse |author2-first=Mark |author3-last=Gallien Jr. |author3-first=Louis |url=https://escholarship.org/content/qt7fs5n5hx/qt7fs5n5hx.pdf?t=krnanf |title=Initiating a Culturally-Responsive Discourse of Same-Sex Attraction Among African American Males. |date=2008-05-15 |language=en |access-date=2022-06-19 |archive-date=2022-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619082923/https://escholarship.org/content/qt7fs5n5hx/qt7fs5n5hx.pdf?t=krnanf |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[maricón]] or {{wt|es|marica|i=-}} (in Spanish) * nancy boy<ref>{{Cite web |last=Collins Dictionary |date=30 April 2023 |title=nancy |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nancy-boy |access-date=30 April 2023 |website=Collins Dictionary |archive-date=24 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224192929/https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nancy-boy |url-status=live }}</ref> * nelly / nellie – an effeminate gay man<ref name="Dahir 2006">{{cite web |last=Dahir |first=Mubarak |title=No one likes a nelly homo |website=Pride Source |date=March 23, 2006 |url=https://pridesource.com/article/no-one-likes-a-nelly-homo |access-date=August 10, 2024 |archive-date=August 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240810105427/https://pridesource.com/article/no-one-likes-a-nelly-homo |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Webster Nelly">{{cite web |title=Definition of NELLY |website=Merriam-Webster |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nelly |access-date=August 10, 2024 |archive-date=August 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240810105427/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nelly |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Pansy#Slang|pansy]]<ref name="Bad Baby Names">{{cite web |last=Kemp |first=A.C. |date=2002–2005 |title=Bad Baby Names |url=http://www.slangcity.com/b_b_name.htm |access-date=15 October 2007 |publisher=Slang City |archive-date=16 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016044020/http://www.slangcity.com/b_b_name.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> * poof/poofta/{{wt|en|poofter|i=-}} (Commonwealth) * sod (from [[sodomy]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sod |access-date=8 January 2015 |archive-date=9 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109024952/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sod |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[wikt:uphill gardener|uphill gardener]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/shsjnli | title=Uphill gardener, n. — Green's Dictionary of Slang }}</ref> * {{wt|pt|viado|i=-}} or ''veado'' – a gay male or an effeminate man (lit., a corrupted form of "deer", derived from ''desviado'', meaning deviant) (Brazil)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sanderson |first=Tom |date=2020-03-10 |title=How a football shirt number is being used to oppose homophobia in Brazil |url=http://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/mar/10/brazilian-football-taboo-gay-shirt-number-corinthians-flamengo-bahia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225030305/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/mar/10/brazilian-football-taboo-gay-shirt-number-corinthians-flamengo-bahia |archive-date=2021-12-25 |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en}}</ref>
== Terms describing lesbians == [[File:A_Dyke_on_a_Bike_by_David_Shankbone.jpg|thumb|A member of the [[Dykes on Bikes]] motorcycle club]]
* baby butch – a young, boyish lesbian<ref name="Max" /> * baby dyke – a young or recently out lesbian<ref name="Brabaw" /> * bambi lesbian – a lesbian who prefers cuddles, hugs, kisses, and other affectionate and sensual non-sexual acts over sexual acts<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cooper |first=Sara E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lSndAAAAQBAJ&dq=%22bambi+lesbian%22&pg=PA15 |title=Lesbian Images in International Popular Culture |date=2013-09-13 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-99213-4 |language=en |access-date=2022-06-15 |archive-date=2024-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310015457/https://books.google.com/books?id=lSndAAAAQBAJ&dq=%22bambi+lesbian%22&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q=%22bambi%20lesbian%22&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> * bean flicker – likening the clitoris to a bean<ref>{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=82}}</ref> * bluff – butch fluff<ref>{{Cite book |last=Duberman |first=Martin |author-link=Martin Duberman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ik-FDwAAQBAJ&dq=bluff+fluff+lesbian&pg=PA52 |title=Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBT Rights Uprising that Changed America |date=2019-06-04 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-593-08399-4 |language=en |access-date=2023-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009194027/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ik-FDwAAQBAJ&dq=bluff+fluff+lesbian&pg=PA52 |archive-date=2023-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref> * [[Boi (slang)|boi]] – a boyish lesbian (UK)<ref>{{cite web |title=Definition of 'boi' |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/boi |access-date=22 April 2019 |publisher=[[Collins English Dictionary]] |quote=in British ... a lesbian who adopts a boyish appearance or manner |archive-date=22 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622041841/https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/boi |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{wt|en|boydyke|i=-}} – a lesbian with male presentation<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mimi |first=Marinucci |title=Feminism is queer |date=2016 |publisher=[[Zed Books]] Ltd |isbn=978-1-78360-675-7 |page=55 |oclc=930829272 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Ilan H. |author-link=Ilan Meyer |title=The Health of Sexual Minorities: Public Health Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations |last2=Northridge |first2=Mary E. |author-link2=Mary Northridge |date=2010 |publisher=Springer US |isbn=978-1-4419-3959-3 |page=40 |oclc=697538612}}</ref> * bull dyke – a masculine lesbian, as opposed to a baby butch or dinky dyke (UK (somewhat archaic), US)<ref name="Max" /> * [[Butch (lesbian slang)|butch]] – a masculine lesbian<ref name="Max" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Butch-Femme |url=http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/butch_femme_ssh_S.pdf |access-date=2018-07-12 |website=glbtqarchive |archive-date=2021-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416044724/http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/butch_femme_ssh_S.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for butch-broad">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=222}}</ref> ** long-haired butch (LHB)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Jenny Fran |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IttvEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22long-haired+butch%22&pg=PT88 |title=Dykette |date=2023-05-16 |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |isbn=978-1-250-84312-8 |language=en |access-date=2024-08-26 |archive-date=2024-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240930003835/https://books.google.com/books?id=IttvEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22long-haired+butch%22&pg=PT88#v=onepage&q=%22long-haired%20butch%22&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> – a butch with [[long hair]]<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=2017 |title=Cat Call: How Lesbians Queer Society Through Interactions with Cats |url=https://midwayreview.uchicago.edu/a/13/1/Radulovic.pdf |archive-date=2023-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117175157/https://midwayreview.uchicago.edu/a/13/1/Radulovic.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Alexander |first=Kate |date=2023-05-01 |title=On Nodding Terms With Nausea |url=https://scholarworks.umt.edu/oval/vol16/iss2/19 |journal=The Oval |volume=16 |issue=2 |access-date=2024-05-24 |archive-date=2024-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524000648/https://scholarworks.umt.edu/oval/vol16/iss2/19/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Jennex |first1=Craig |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dojVEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22long-haired+butch%22&pg=PA1969 |title=Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada |last2=Eswaran |first2=Nisha |date=2023-09-05 |publisher=Figure 1 Publishing |isbn=978-1-77327-248-1 |language=en |access-date=2024-08-26 |archive-date=2024-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240930003925/https://books.google.com/books?id=dojVEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22long-haired+butch%22&pg=PA1969#v=onepage&q=%22long-haired%20butch%22&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> * carpet muncher (or "rug muncher")<ref>{{harvnb|Dalzell|2008|p=170}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Rader |first1=Walter |title=Definition of carpet muncher |url=http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/carpet-muncher |access-date=15 April 2019 |publisher=The Online Slang Dictionary |archive-date=15 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415010209/http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/carpet-muncher |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Dyke (slang)|dyke]] ("bull dyke", "bull dagger", alternatively "bulldagger", "bulldicker"<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for bulldicker">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=146}}</ref>), from 1920s black American slang. A slur reclaimed by women who are attracted to women in the 1950s<ref name="Dynes" /><ref name="Krantz">{{cite journal |last=Krantz |first=Susan E. |year=1995 |title=Reconsidering the Etymology of Bulldike |url=https://scholarworks.uno.edu/engl_facpubs/41 |journal=American Speech |volume=70 |issue=2 |pages=217–221 |doi=10.2307/455819 |jstor=455819 |access-date=2022-04-20 |archive-date=2023-03-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322153405/https://scholarworks.uno.edu/engl_facpubs/41/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Prisons and Prisoners">{{cite web |year=2006 |title=Prisons and Prisoners |url=http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/prisons,2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112195014/http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/prisons,2.html |archive-date=12 November 2007 |access-date=15 October 2007 |publisher=GLBTQ Encyclopedia}}</ref><ref name="Dynes1990">{{harvnb|Dynes|Johansson|Percy|Donaldson|1990|p=335}}</ref> ** diesel dyke<ref>{{harvnb|Dalzell|2008|p=287}}</ref><ref>Matthew Rottnek, Sissies and Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood, NYU Press, May 1, 1999 -</ref> ** drag dyke<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for Drag dyke">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=444}}</ref> * dykon – portmanteau of ''dyke'' + ''[[gay icon|icon]]''. A celebrity woman who is seen as an icon by lesbians; may or may not be a lesbian herself<ref name="Brabaw" /> * fluff – femme<ref>{{Cite book |last=Eaklor |first=Vicki L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qJZdHuZ0aM0C&dq=bluff+fluff+lesbian&pg=PA95 |title=Queer America: A GLBT History of the 20th Century |date=2008-03-30 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-33749-9 |language=en |access-date=2023-09-05 |archive-date=2023-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009194027/https://books.google.com/books?id=qJZdHuZ0aM0C&dq=bluff+fluff+lesbian&pg=PA95 |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{Anchor|gouine}}{{wt|fr|gouine|i=-}} (in French)<ref>{{cite web |title=The French Academy |url=https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9G1064 |language=French |access-date=2023-12-18 |archive-date=2023-12-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231218204544/https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9G1064 |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{wt|en|hasbian|i=-}} / has-bian – a woman who previously identified as lesbian but now identifies as heterosexual or bisexual<ref>[https://www.oed.com/dictionary/hasbian_n?tab=meaning_and_use "hasbian"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240930003841/https://www.oed.com/dictionary/hasbian_n?tab=meaning_and_use&tl=true |date=2024-09-30 }}. (2019). In ''Oxford English Dictionary''. Retrieved May 14, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hasbian "hasbian"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514221723/https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hasbian |date=2024-05-14 }}. (n.d.). In ''Dictionary.com''. Retrieved May 14, 2024.</ref> * kiki – a term used primarily from the 1940s until the 1960s to indicate a lesbian who was not butch or femme and did not have a preference for either butch or femme partners<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haggerty |first1=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAZ5AgAAQBAJ&q=KIKI%201940s%20lesbian&pg=PA140 |title=Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures edited by George Haggerty, Bonnie Zimmerman |last2=Zimmerman |first2=Bonnie |date=2003-09-02 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-135-57870-1 |access-date=2018-03-27 |archive-date=2024-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310015313/https://books.google.com/books?id=qAZ5AgAAQBAJ&q=KIKI%201940s%20lesbian&pg=PA140#v=snippet&q=KIKI%201940s%20lesbian&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> * kitty puncher / pussy puncher – with both "kitty" and "pussy" referring to a woman's vulva/vagina, and "puncher" as a variation on various derogatory terms for gay men, such as "donut puncher"<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang for Donut puncher">{{harvnb|Green|2005|p=440}}</ref> * four-year lesbian – see [[lesbian until graduation]] * [[lesbian until graduation]] (LUG) – a young woman who is assumed to be temporarily experimenting with same-sex behavior, but will ultimately adopt a heterosexual identity<ref>Rimer, Sara (June 5, 1993). [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/05/us/campus-lesbians-step-into-unfamiliar-light.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm "Campus Lesbians Step Into Unfamiliar Light"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405040402/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/05/us/campus-lesbians-step-into-unfamiliar-light.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |date=2023-04-05 }}. ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> * [[lipstick lesbian]] – a lesbian/bisexual woman who displays historically feminine attributes such as wearing make-up, dresses, and high heels<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKLqWDyi5TsC&pg=PT67 |title=Intersectionality, Sexuality and Psychological Therapies: Working with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Diversity |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-119-96743-9 |page=49 |access-date=April 5, 2015 |author1=Roshan das Nair| author2=Catherine Butler}}</ref> * muff-diver – a lesbian{{sfn|Dalzell|Victor|2006|p=1335}}<ref name="Dalzell 2013">{{cite book |title=The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English |date=2018 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-138-77965-5 |editor1-last=Dalzell |editor1-first=Tom |page=2013}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Dalzell|2008|p=679}}</ref> * pillow princess – a lesbian who likes to receive sexual stimulation, rather than giving it (to bottom)<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 9, 2018 |title=Definition of pillow princess |url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/pillow-princess/ |access-date=May 12, 2024 |website=[[Dictionary.com]]}}</ref><ref name="Brabaw" /> * {{wt|pt|sapatão|i=-}} (Brazil)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Usem a língua! Conheça 17 gírias lésbicas – Guia Gay São Paulo |url=https://www.guiagaysaopaulo.com.br/noticias/cidadania/usem-a-lingua!-conheca-17-girias-lesbicas |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=www.guiagaysaopaulo.com.br |language=pt |archive-date=2022-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601153421/https://www.guiagaysaopaulo.com.br/noticias/cidadania/usem-a-lingua!-conheca-17-girias-lesbicas |url-status=live }}</ref> or {{wt|pt|fufa|i=-}} (Portugal) * [[soft butch]] – an androgynous lesbian, in between femme and butch<ref name="Brabaw" /> * stem, stemme – someone whose [[gender expression]] falls somewhere between a stud and a femme<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-15 |title=LGBTQ+ Terminology |url=https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/lgbtq-terminology |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=John Jay College of Criminal Justice |language=en |archive-date=2022-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527072529/https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/lgbtq-terminology |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[stone butch]] – a very masculine lesbian, or a butch lesbian who does not receive touch during intercourse, only giving (US)<ref name="Brabaw" /> * stud – a [[Black people|Black]] butch<ref>{{cite news |last1=Manders |first1=Kerry |title=The Butches and Studs Who've Defied the Male Gaze and Redefined Culture |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/t-magazine/butch-stud-lesbian.html |work=The New York Times |date=13 April 2020 |access-date=12 May 2022 |archive-date=1 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601162532/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/t-magazine/butch-stud-lesbian.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Robyn |last2=Robyn |date=2020-02-29 |title=Stud Lesbian Meaning |url=https://weareher.com/stud-lesbian-meaning-lesbian-slang-glossary/ |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=HER Queer Dating App |language=en |archive-date=2023-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215200115/https://weareher.com/stud-lesbian-meaning-lesbian-slang-glossary/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Terms describing bisexual or pansexual people ==
* AC/DC – reference to "swinging both ways" (US)<ref>{{cite news |last=Castleman |first=Michael |date=March 15, 2016 |title=The Continuing Controversy Over Bisexuality |publisher=Psychology Today |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201603/the-continuing-controversy-over-bisexuality |access-date=September 8, 2020 |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310015309/https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201603/the-continuing-controversy-over-bisexuality |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{wt|en|ambisextrous|i=-}} – euphemism for bisexual, derived from [[ambidextrous]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Drake |first=Fabia |author-link=Fabia Drake |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wzsPAAAAMAAJ&dq=ambisextrous&pg=PA94 |title=Blind Fortune |date=1978 |publisher=Kimber |isbn=978-0-7183-0455-3 |language=en |access-date=2022-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213102418/https://books.google.com/books?id=wzsPAAAAMAAJ&dq=ambisextrous&pg=PA94 |archive-date=2023-02-13 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Ambiguous or Ambisextrous? Exploring dress, gender and the fashioning of masculine femininity in the 'long nineteenth century'. |url=http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/35436/ |publisher=University of Huddersfield |date=September 2020 |degree=masters |language=en |first=Georgia |last=Rogers-Smith |access-date=2022-11-05 |archive-date=2022-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105165418/http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/35436/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * bicon – [[portmanteau]] of ''[[bisexual]]'' + ''[[gay icon|icon]]''. Used to refer to a bisexual celebrity<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Chloe O. |title=[[The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases]] |date=2021 |publisher=Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale |isbn=978-0-593-13500-6 |language=en}}</ref> * byke – a bisexual [[Dyke (slang)|dyke]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ault |first=Amber |date=1996 |title=Ambiguous Identity in an Unambiguous Sex/Gender Structure: The Case of Bisexual Women |journal=The Sociological Quarterly |language=en |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=449–463 |doi=10.1111/j.1533-8525.1996.tb00748.x }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Atkins |first=Dawn |author-link=Dawn Atkins (anthropologist) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JfWrM2M9zOQC&dq=bisexual+byke&pg=PA99 |title=Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities |date=2012-10-12 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-38019-8 |language=en |access-date=2023-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009194026/https://books.google.com/books?id=JfWrM2M9zOQC&dq=bisexual+byke&pg=PA99 |archive-date=2023-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref> * equal-opportunity lover – informal term for bisexual<ref>{{Cite book |year=1990 |editor-last=Geller |editor-first=Thomas |title=Bisexuality: A Reader and Sourcebook |publisher=Times Change Press |isbn=0-87810-037-7 |chapter=Bi-Lexicon |page=107}}</ref> * Gillette Blade – a 1950s era term for bisexual women, whose sexuality "cuts both ways"<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Faderman |first1=Lillian |author-link=Lillian Faderman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7owDwAAQBAJ&q=Gillette+Blade |title=Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians |last2=Timmons |first2=Stuart |author-link2=Stuart Timmons |date=3 August 2009 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-26061-0 |page=48 |access-date=24 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310015929/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7owDwAAQBAJ&q=Gillette+Blade#v=snippet&q=Gillette%20Blade&f=false |archive-date=10 March 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> * [[Horatian]] – in [[Lord Byron]]'s circle at [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]], a code word for "[[bisexual]]",<ref name="Crompton1985">[[Louis Crompton|Crompton, Louis]]. ''Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th-century England''. Faber & Faber, London 1985. {{ISBN|978-0-571-13597-4}}</ref>{{rp|94}} more specifically bisexual men<ref>{{Cite web |title=Horatian {{!}} definition by Lexicon Library.LGBT |url=https://lexicon.library.lgbt/definitions/horatian/ |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=lexicon.library.lgbt |archive-date=2024-03-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323005550/https://lexicon.library.lgbt/definitions/horatian/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * unicorn – a bisexual, usually a woman,<ref name=":2" /> who desires multiple partners and is willing to join an existing couple and sexually satisfy both members of the couple.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 February 2017 |title=How to be a Sexual Unicorn |url=https://www.glamour.com/story/how-to-be-a-sexual-unicorn |access-date=20 April 2022 |archive-date=29 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529050052/https://www.glamour.com/story/how-to-be-a-sexual-unicorn |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Unicorn Polyamory |url=https://www.unicornsrule.com/unicorn-polyamory/ |access-date=2021-07-05 |website=Unicorns Rule! |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183256/https://www.unicornsrule.com/unicorn-polyamory/ |url-status=live }}</ref> So-named because bisexuals willing to enter such an arrangement are considered rare or non-existent,<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |date=2020-01-08 |title=Popular Gay Slang Inspired by the Animal Kingdom |url=https://www.pride.com/identities/2016/4/05/popular-gay-slang-inspired-animal-kingdom |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=Pride.com |publisher=[[Here Media]] |language=en |archive-date=2022-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418120241/https://www.pride.com/identities/2016/4/05/popular-gay-slang-inspired-animal-kingdom |url-status=live }}</ref> while couples seeking such a partner ("[[Unicorn hunting|unicorn hunters]]") are common<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=2012-04-22 |title=Hunting the Elusive Unicorn |newspaper=The Good Men Project |url=https://goodmenproject.com/sex-relationships/hunting-the-elusive-unicorn/ |last1=Schneider |first1=Micah |access-date=2022-04-20 |archive-date=2022-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602171422/https://goodmenproject.com/sex-relationships/hunting-the-elusive-unicorn/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Terms describing androgynous or intersex people ==
* {{nihongo3|"to be of two kinds"|ふたなり|[[futanari]]|seldom: {{lang|ja|二形}}, {{lang|ja|双形}}, lit. "dual form"}} – Japanese word for [[hermaphroditism]], which is also used in a broader sense for [[androgyny]].<ref name="Leupp">{{cite book |last1=Leupp |first1=Gary P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a6q-PqPDAmIC&q=futanari&pg=PA174 |title=Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan |date=1995 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-91919-8 |location=Berkeley, California |page=174 |language=en |access-date=11 March 2016 |archive-date=10 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310020037/https://books.google.com/books?id=a6q-PqPDAmIC&q=futanari&pg=PA174#v=snippet&q=futanari&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="krauss">{{in lang|de}} [[Friedrich Salomon Krauss|Krauss, Friedrich Salomo]] et al. ''Japanisches Geschlechtsleben: Abhandlungen und Erhebungen über das Geschlechtsleben des japanischen Volkes; folkloristische Studien'', Schustek, 1965</ref>{{rp|79, 81}} The term is also heavily associated with a genre of [[hentai]] defined by sexualization of characters simultaneously possessing breasts, a penis and a vulva, and has gained a negative connotation for the sexual connotations<ref>{{Cite book |first=Katrien |last=Jacobs |title=Netporn: DIY web culture and sexual politics |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7425-5431-3 |pages=103–104 |oclc=878758474}}</ref> * hermie – an androgynous or [[intersex]] person, though the term is often considered a slur<ref>{{cite book |last1=James |first1=Edward |author-link=Edward James (historian) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xup-AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT205 |title=The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-49467-1 |access-date=2022-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310015951/https://books.google.com/books?id=Xup-AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT205#v=onepage&q&f=false |archive-date=2024-03-10 |url-status=live}}</ref> * {{vanchor|altersex}}<!-- [[Altersex]] redirects here --> – a term describing people who alter their sex, such as through [[transgender hormone therapy|hormone replacement therapy]] or [[gender-affirming surgery]], who were not born intersex. This term is especially used in the case of people who do not describe their sex as male or female due to their medical transition, without appropriating intersex terminology. Considered derogatory if used to deny the validity of someone's medical transition to male or female<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ray Marquez |first=Mx. Anunnaki |date=2019-12-12 |title=Biological and Anatomical Sex: Endosex, Intersex & Altersex |url=https://anunnakiray.com/2019/12/12/biological-and-anatomical-sex-endosex-intersex-altersex/ |access-date=2022-07-28 |website=Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez |language=en |archive-date=2023-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213103039/https://anunnakiray.com/2019/12/12/biological-and-anatomical-sex-endosex-intersex-altersex/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * Salmacian – named after [[Salmacis]], standing for someone who acquires, or wishes to acquire, mixed genitalia<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kupper |first=Carly |date=2021-01-01 |title=Non-Binary Identities: How Non-Binary People Move Through A Gendered World |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses/911 |journal=Honors Undergraduate Theses |access-date=2023-07-13 |archive-date=2023-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713233530/https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses/911/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Terms describing transgender and non-binary people == {{further|Attraction to transgender people#Terminology}}
* [[wikt:baby_trans|baby trans]] – a trans person who recently [[Closeted|came out of the closet]]. The term is a noun<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stefanović |first=Matija |title="Baby Trans" – Early Stages of Transition – How and Why Trans People are Behaving so "Strangely" When They Just Come Out |url=https://lgbti-era.org/baby-trans-early-stages-of-transition-how-and-why-trans-people-are-behaving-so-strangely-when-they-just-come-out/ |access-date=2024-06-29 |archive-date=2024-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629105718/https://lgbti-era.org/baby-trans-early-stages-of-transition-how-and-why-trans-people-are-behaving-so-strangely-when-they-just-come-out/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Baby trans |url=https://meaning.io/of/baby-trans |website=meaning.io}}</ref> * {{wt|en|boymoder|i=-}} – a transgender woman or girl who socially presents in a masculine gender role<!--Useful but not supported by transgender map source: (ie, lives publicly under a traditionally masculine name, wears traditionally "boy" clothes, and generally, does not let the public know of their identity or possible desire to present femininely, androgynously, or any other way someone could appear/dress in public)-->, typically in places where transgender individuals are discriminated against, or due to not being out as transgender.<ref name="transgendermap.com">{{Cite web |date=2019-04-16 |title=Transgender slang, slurs, and controversial words |url=https://www.transgendermap.com/resources/words/slang-slurs/ |access-date=2022-05-07 |website=Transgender Map |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430022218/https://www.transgendermap.com/resources/words/slang-slurs/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The equivalent for a transgender man is "girlmoder"<ref name="transgendermap.com" /> * {{Visible anchor|cisn't}} – similar to [[trans*]], an umbrella term for [[non-cisgender]] people<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Knisely |first=Kris Aric |date=2024-05-27 |title=Toward trans multilingualisms: student attitudes toward and experiences with trans linguacultures in French |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13670050.2024.2306414 |journal=International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism |language=en |volume=27 |issue=5 |pages=643–655 |doi=10.1080/13670050.2024.2306414 |hdl=10150/671969 |issn=1367-0050}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Deschamps |first1=Louane |last2=Zecca |first2=Nicole |last3=Fabri |first3=Ambre |date=2024-05-13 |title=La sueur des sœurs |url=https://shs.cairn.info/revue-z-2024-1-page-144 |journal=Z : Revue itinérante d'enquête et de critique sociale |language=fr |volume=1 |number=16 |pages=144–151 |doi=10.3917/rz.016.0144 |issn=2101-4787 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250429102757/https://shs.cairn.info/revue-z-2024-1-page-144 |archive-date=2025-04-29 |access-date=2026-02-14 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Those who cisn't |url=https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/bitstream/10216/140135/2/536880.pdf |website=Ciência-UCP {{!}} Universidade Católica Portuguesa |language=pt}}</ref> * Copenhagen capon – a transsexual; someone who has undergone sex reassignment surgery. The term alludes to [[Christine Jorgensen]], a trans woman who underwent [[sex reassignment surgery]] in Copenhagen in the 1950s.<ref name="Max" /><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dalzell |first1=Tom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ak6cBQAAQBAJ&dq=copenhagen+capon&pg=RA1-PA1902 |title=The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English |last2=Victor |first2=Terry |date=2014-11-27 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-62511-7 |language=en |access-date=2022-11-10 |archive-date=2023-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404210630/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ak6cBQAAQBAJ&dq=copenhagen+capon&pg=RA1-PA1902 |url-status=live }}</ref> A [[capon]] is a [[neutered]] rooster * {{anchor|diamoric}}diamoric – a term for attractions and relationships involving at least one non-binary individual<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barron |first=Victoria |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BDSdEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22diamoric%22+nonbinary&pg=PT4 |title=Perfectly Queer: An Illustrated Introduction |date=2023-02-21 |publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers |isbn=978-1-83997-409-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Sisko |first=Adriana |date=2021-01-01 |title="My Gender is Lesbian": Community Building and the Endurance of the Lesbian in Queer Times |url=https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gws_etds/7 |journal=Theses and Dissertations—Gender and Women's Studies |doi=10.13023/etd.2021.481 |access-date=2024-05-04 |archive-date=2024-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240512230905/https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gws_etds/7/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mardell |first=Ashley |author-link=Ash Hardell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R0UzDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22diamoric%22+nonbinary&pg=PT6 |title=The ABC's of LGBT+ |date=2016-11-08 |publisher=Mango Media Inc. |isbn=978-1-63353-408-7 |language=en}}</ref> * {{va|egg}} – a transgender person who has not yet realized they are trans;<ref>{{Cite news |last=VanDerWerff |first=Emily |author-link=Emily St. James |date=2019-03-30 |title=How The Matrix universalized a trans experience — and helped me accept my own |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/3/30/18286436/the-matrix-wachowskis-trans-experience-redpill |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612022929/https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/3/30/18286436/the-matrix-wachowskis-trans-experience-redpill |archive-date=2021-06-12 |access-date=2021-06-12 |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref> used by transgender people when aspects of one's personality or behavior remind them of gender-related aspects of themselves before they realized they were trans. As such, the realization that one is trans is referred to as one's "egg cracking".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cracking The History of The Trans “Egg”|date=5 Dec 2024|access-date=14 May 2026|last=Bauer|first=Evelyn|publisher=[[Them (magazine)|Them]]|website=them.us|url=https://www.them.us/story/cracking-the-history-of-the-trans-egg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260420183028/https://www.them.us/story/cracking-the-history-of-the-trans-egg|archive-date=20 Apr 2026|url-status=live}}</ref> This may also be used to refer to someone who is questioning their gender but later expresses themself to be [[cisgender]]. Although, this seems to be of less common use. Most "egg" related statements either refer to someone's past self, before they would describe themself as transgender. Or, someone believed to be trans, but not open, regardless of whether they say they are at the time. However, this is a risky social move, as, that someone could later still describe themself as cis, be in the closet, or have a non-binary identity that is neither considered necessarily cis nor trans to them. Or the label of "trans" is not to their liking or has too many [[connotation]]s attached to it they dislike * {{anchor|enbian}}{{wt|en|enbian|i=-}} or NBLNB (also NLN) – a term for attraction and relationship between non-binary people<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dyer |first=Harriet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVmuEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22enbian%22+nonbinary&pg=PT6 |title=From Ace to Ze: The Little Book of LGBT Terms |date=2018-05-10 |publisher=Summersdale |isbn=978-1-78685-696-8 |language=en |access-date=2024-05-13 |archive-date=2024-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240930011027/https://books.google.com/books?id=uVmuEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22enbian%22+nonbinary&pg=PT6 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Cicero |first1=Ethan C. |last2=Lunn |first2=Mitchell R. |last3=Obedin-Maliver |first3=Juno |last4=Sunder |first4=Gowri |last5=Lubensky |first5=Micah E. |last6=Capriotti |first6=Matthew R. |last7=Flentje |first7=Annesa |date=2023-12-01 |title=Acceptability of Biospecimen Collection Among Sexual and/or Gender Minority Adults in the United States |journal=Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health |language=en |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=311–344 |doi=10.1891/LGBTQ-2022-0021 |pmid=39234441 |pmc=11374103 |issn=2688-4518}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wang |first1=Kelly |last2=Bially Levy |first2=Dan |last3=Nguyen |first3=Kien T |last4=Lerner |first4=Ada |last5=Marsh |first5=Abigail |chapter=Counting Carrds: Investigating Personal Disclosure and Boundary Management in Transformative Fandom |title=Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |chapter-url=https://kelwang.com/counting-carrds.pdf |publisher=[[Northeastern University]] |date=11 May 2024 |page=7 |doi=10.1145/3613904.3642664 |isbn=979-8-4007-0330-0 |access-date=2026-02-15 |archive-date=2024-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523231010/https://kelwang.com/counting-carrds.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{wt|en|enby|i=-}} – a [[non-binary]] person. Derived from a phonetic spelling of the abbreviation NB.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bear Bergman |first1=S. |author-link=S. Bear Bergman |title=Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders |last2=Barker |first2=Meg-John |author-link2=Meg-John Barker |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-137-51052-5 |pages=31–51 |chapter=Non-binary Activism |doi=10.1057/978-1-137-51053-2_3 |access-date=2023-04-18 |chapter-url=http://oro.open.ac.uk/53490/3/53490.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418220405/http://oro.open.ac.uk/53490/3/53490.pdf |archive-date=2023-04-18 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="transgendermap.com" /> * girlmoder – a transgender man who socially presents in a feminine gender role, typically in places where transgender individuals are discriminated against, or due to not being out as transgender.<ref name="transgendermap.com" /> The equivalent for a transgender woman is "boymoder" * lady boy – English translation of [[kathoey]], similar or equivalent to ''transgender woman'', but may refer to feminine [[gay men]] or [[intersex]] people<ref name="Peter Jackson-1989">{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Peter A |url=https://archive.org/details/malehomosexualit00jack |title=Male Homosexuality in Thailand; An Interpretation of Contemporary Thai Sources |date=1989 |publisher=Global Academic Publishers |location=Elmhurst NY |ref=Peter Jackson |url-access=registration}}</ref> * M2B – male to butch, alluding [[male-to-female]] (MtF, also called M2F)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-19 |title=Unapologetic: The Journal of Irresponsible Gender #1 {{!}} Trans Reads |url=https://transreads.org/unapologetic-the-journal-of-irresponsible-gender-1/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719152450/https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-19_60f5972c46eec_Unapologetic.pdf |archive-date=2021-07-19 |access-date=2024-05-08 |website=transreads.org |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=trans women MTF butch lesbian |url=http://www.butchwonders.com/1/post/2017/08/can-trans-women-be-butch-lesbians.html |access-date=2024-05-08 |website=Butch Wonders |language=en |archive-date=2024-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240930010928/https://www.butchwonders.com/blog/can-trans-women-be-butch-lesbians |url-status=live }}</ref> * repressor – a person who is fighting the wish to change their gender expression<ref name="transgendermap.com" /> * ''sapatrans'' or ''sapatrava'' ([[portmanteau]] of ''sapatão'' + ''trans'') – a term used in Brazil for trans lesbians and lesbian [[travestis]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Opinião: Marina Mathey – Sapatravas, Sapatrans... |url=https://www.uol.com.br/ecoa/colunas/marina-mathey/2022/03/02/sapatravas-sapatrans.htm |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=[[Universo Online|UOL]] |language=pt-br |archive-date=2022-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427184143/https://www.uol.com.br/ecoa/colunas/marina-mathey/2022/03/02/sapatravas-sapatrans.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Vieira Filho |first1=Maurício João |last2=Procópio |first2=Mariana Ramalho |date=2024-01-19 |title=Queerentenas em primeira pessoa |url=https://www.scielo.br/j/ref/a/TKcr6R5WWh5ZFShNq9TQQWj/?lang=pt |journal=Revista Estudos Feministas |language=pt |volume=32 |article-number=e96272 |doi=10.1590/1806-9584-2023v32n196272 |issn=0104-026X |access-date=2024-05-09 |archive-date=2024-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509222546/https://www.scielo.br/j/ref/a/TKcr6R5WWh5ZFShNq9TQQWj/?lang=pt |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{Wt|en|t-girl|italic=-}} – a [[trans woman]] (short for "trans girl"). It is sometimes derogatory due to its association with [[transgender pornography]]. The trans man equivalent is t-boy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What Is A "T-Girl"? |url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/t-girl/ |access-date=2021-06-12 |website=Dictionary.com |date=26 January 2021 |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612010622/https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/t-girl/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{Wt|en|t-boy|italic=-}} / {{Wt|en|t-guy|italic=-}} – a [[trans man]] (short for "trans boy" or "trans guy") The trans women equivalent is t-girl. * tranarchist – a transgender anarchist<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Herman |first1=Elis L. |title=Tranarchism: transgender embodiment and destabilization of the state |journal=Contemporary Justice Review |date=2 January 2015 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=76–92 |doi=10.1080/10282580.2015.1008946 |s2cid=144267958 }}</ref> * {{Visible anchor|transbian|text={{wt|en|transbian|i=-}}}} ([[portmanteau]] of ''trans'' + ''lesbian'') – a transgender lesbian.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Blain |first1=Virginia |date=January 2004 |title=Queer Empathy: or, Reading/Writing the Queer in Victorian Poetry |journal=Literature Compass |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=** |doi=10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00059.x}}</ref> See also {{Section link|Trans woman|Sexuality}}. * transfag – a transgender gay man<ref name="stryker1999">[[Susan Stryker]] (1999). "Portrait of a Transfag Drag Hag as a Young Man: The Activist Career of Louis G. Sullivan," in Kate More and Stephen Whittle (eds). ''Reclaiming Gender: Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siecle,'' pp. 62–82. Cassells, {{ISBN|978-0-304-33776-7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=White |first=Melissa Autumn |date=March 2013 |title=Ambivalent homonationalisms: Transnational queer intimacies and territorialized belongings |journal=Interventions |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=37–54 |doi=10.1080/1369801X.2013.770999 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Clearly We Do Nothing Else Here But F*ck: Assembling a Transfag Through Erotic Roleplay in Final Fantasy XIV |url=https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/992795/ |publisher=Concordia University |date=2023-08-30 |degree=masters |language=en |first=Rex |last=Badalone |access-date=2024-05-04 |archive-date=2024-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305005439/https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/992795/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{Wt|en|tryke|italic=-}} (portmanteau of ''trans'' + ''dyke'') — a transgender lesbian<ref>2020, [[Riki Wilchins]]; [[Joan Nestle]]; Clare Howell, ''GenderQueer-Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary'', page 237</ref><ref>2005, [[Emanuel Xavier]], ''Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry'', page 117</ref>
=== Slurs against transgender and non-binary people === * [[shemale]] or she-male – a trans woman with male genitalia and possibly female secondary sex characteristics.<ref name="zapata">[[Autumn Sandeen]], [https://shadowproof.com/2009/03/19/blaming-the-victim-angie-zapata-for-her-own-death/ Blaming The Victim, Angie Zapata, For Her Own Death] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331124252/https://shadowproof.com/2009/03/19/blaming-the-victim-angie-zapata-for-her-own-death/|date=2022-03-31}}, Shadowproof, 19 Mar 2009</ref> Primarily a term used in pornography and often derogatory<ref name="Halberstam2018">{{cite book |last1=Halberstam |first1=Jack |author-link=Jack Halberstam |title=Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability |date=2018 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-29268-0 |page=12}}</ref> * hon – a non-passing transgender woman. This term is primarily used by trans women in online communities (mostly [[4chan]]). It is derogatory<ref name="transgendermap.com" /> * [[tranny]] – slur for transgender people<ref>{{cite news |last=Kaveney |first=Roz |author-link=Roz Kaveney |date=2010-06-30 |title=Why trans is in but tranny is out |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/30/trans-language-transgender |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623032933/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/30/trans-language-transgender |archive-date=2017-06-23 |access-date=2012-10-06 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2011-09-11 |title=GLAAD's Transgender Resources |url=http://www.glaad.org/transgender |access-date=2012-10-06 |publisher=[[Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation]] |archive-date=2012-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006101255/http://www.glaad.org/transgender |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{wt|en|trap|i=-}}{{Anchor|trap}} — slur for someone whose perceived gender is opposite their anatomical sex, particularly a [[trans woman]] or [[Femboy|feminine boy]]. Implies that others who are attracted to them (typically heterosexual men) are maliciously deceived (i.e. "trapped") regarding their "real" gender.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.5117/9789462988248_appen |chapter=Appendix: Trans and Genderqueer Studies Terminology, Language, and Usage Guide |title=Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography |year=2021 |isbn=978-90-485-4026-6 |s2cid=242549799 |editor1-first=Alicia |editor1-last=Spencer-Hall |editor2-first=Blake |editor2-last=Gutt |pages=281–330 }}</ref> It is considered derogatory and dehumanizing<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-22 |title=GLAAD Media Reference Guide – Transgender Terms |url=https://www.glaad.org/reference/trans-terms |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=GLAAD |language=en |archive-date=2023-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928192510/https://glaad.org/reference/trans-terms/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{wt|en|troon|i=-}} (portmanteau of "trans" and "goon") — Originally a term for members of the [[Something Awful]] forum ("goons") who are transgender. Used as a slur for trans women, connoting violent or sinister ulterior motives for transitioning<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-01 |title=Troon: Definition, Meaning, and Origin in Anti-LGBTQ Hate {{!}} GLAAD |url=https://glaad.org/troon-definition-meaning-anti-lgbt-online-hate/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=glaad.org |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240214204817/https://glaad.org/troon-definition-meaning-anti-lgbt-online-hate/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{wt|en|cuntboy|i=-}} or {{wt|en|pussyboy|i=-}}/{{wt|en|dickgirl|i=-}} – a female-to-male (FtM) and male-to-female (MtF) transgender/transsexual person, respectively, who has not had genital surgery.<ref>{{Cite web |last=SlangDefine.org |title=Slang Define: What is Dickgirl? – meaning and definition |url=https://slangdefine.org/d/dickgirl-47b4.html |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=slangdefine.org |language=en |archive-date=2022-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512123503/https://slangdefine.org/d/dickgirl-47b4.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=SlangDefine.org |title=Slang Define: What is Cuntboy? – meaning and definition |url=https://slangdefine.org/c/cuntboy-10989.html |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=slangdefine.org |language=en |archive-date=2022-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521072145/https://slangdefine.org/c/cuntboy-10989.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It is often used in a derogatory or pornographic context * pooner – a derogatory term originating from [[4chan]] describing trans men who do not pass well as male
== Terms related to transgender and non-binary people == {{see also|Terminology of transgender anatomy}} * clock – to recognize someone as being transgender<ref name="transgendermap.com" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-02-04 |title=10 Words Transgender People Want You to Know (But Not Say) |url=http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/1/19/10-words-transgender-people-want-you-know-not-say |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=www.advocate.com |language=en |archive-date=2022-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107003739/https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/1/19/10-words-transgender-people-want-you-know-not-say |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[deadname]] – as a noun, a transgender person's birth name. As a verb, to refer to someone by their deadname.<ref name="transgendermap.com" /> The etymologically identical term [[wiktionary:necronym|necronym]] is also sometimes used with the same meaning * {{wt|en|girldick|i=-}} – a transfeminine person's penis, especially one changed by hormone use. Also known as gick, girlcock, or gock<ref name="transgendermap.com" /> * malefail – to be gendered as feminine when trying to present in a masculine gender role<ref name="transgendermap.com" /> * [[Packing (phallus)|packing]] – the act of wearing padding or a [[phallic]] object to present the appearance of a penis<ref>{{cite book |last1=Venning |first1=Rachel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pHb_Qel6IfkC&pg=PA86 |title=Sex Toys 101: A Playfully Uninhibited Guide |last2=Cavanah |first2=Claire |date=2003-09-16 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-7432-4351-3 |pages=86– |access-date=26 November 2012}}</ref> * [[Tucking|tuck]] - any attempt to hide the appearance of a penis bulge * [[Passing (gender)|passing]] – to be perceived as a gender one is attempting to pass as,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Urquhart |first=Evan |date=2017-03-30 |title=Why Is "Passing" Such a Controversial Subject for Trans People? |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/03/why-passing-is-both-controversial-and-central-to-the-trans-community.html |access-date=2019-04-13 |website=Slate Magazine |language=en |archive-date=2019-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413202953/https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/03/why-passing-is-both-controversial-and-central-to-the-trans-community.html |url-status=live }}</ref> usually in relation to trans people * [[skoliosexual]] – to describe attraction to [[non-binary]] people<ref name="skoliosexual">{{cite news |last1=Michelson |first1=Noah |date=16 October 2015 |title=What's a Skoliosexual? |newspaper=Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/skoliosexual-zucchini-and-10-other-sexual-identity-terms-you-probably-dont-know_us_561bf841e4b0082030a35f80 |access-date=16 July 2017 |archive-date=8 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708160140/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/skoliosexual-zucchini-and-10-other-sexual-identity-terms-you-probably-dont-know_us_561bf841e4b0082030a35f80 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Anderson-Minshall |first1=Jacob |author-link=Jacob Anderson-Minshall |date=18 May 2017 |title=Is Fetishizing Trans Bodies Offensive? |url=https://www.advocate.com/current-issue/2017/5/18/fetishizing-trans-bodies-offensive |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015094915/https://www.advocate.com/current-issue/2017/5/18/fetishizing-trans-bodies-offensive |archive-date=15 October 2017 |access-date=14 October 2017 |work=The Advocate |language=en}}</ref> * stealth – passing to the extent that most people cannot tell that you are trans<ref name="transgendermap.com"/> * [[TERF]] – acronym for "trans-exclusionary [[radical feminist]]"; a [[feminist]] whose advocacy excludes or opposes the rights of trans people. It also, more infrequently, used to refer to someone [[Transphobia|hostile to transgender people]]<ref name="TerfOED">{{Cite OED|term=TERF|id=98002894|access-date=14 July 2022|date=June 2022}}</ref> * {{wt|en|TME|i=-}} or TMA/TMC – [[transmisogyny]]-exempt or transmisogyny-affected/confined, ascribing those who are, or are not, a target of transmisogyny, the intersection of [[transphobia]] and [[misogyny]]<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Cavar |first=Sarah Lynn |date=2020-05-07 |title=Enacting Transbutch: Queer Narratives Beyond Essentialism |hdl=10166/5968 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10166/5968 |degree=BA |publisher=Mount Holyoke College |language=en-US |access-date=2024-05-08 |archive-date=2024-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240930010933/https://ida.mtholyoke.edu/items/6670a7d4-6867-4f21-8c7b-35a3ab3ee1a3 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Salja |first1=Emily |title=Landscapes of possibility: An introduction to fantasy in 2SLGBTQIA+ and disabled therapeutic contexts |journal=International Journal of Narrative Therapy & Community Work |date=January 2022 |issue=1 |pages=17–25 |url=https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.429074394570147 }}</ref> *[[transgenderism]] – an anti-trans term used against transgender people by saying that being transgender is an ideology or a mental disorder rather than an identity.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://glaad.org/transgenderism-definition-meaning-anti-lgbt-online-hate/|title=Online Anti-LGBTQ Hate Terms Defined: "Transgenderism"|website=[[GLAAD]]|date=2 November 2023 |access-date=9 March 2024|archive-date=12 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212123554/https://glaad.org/transgenderism-definition-meaning-anti-lgbt-online-hate/|url-status=live}}</ref> In the past (the mid to late 20th century), the term was used non-derogatorily to refer to being transgender, though this meaning has become obsolete
== Terms describing cisgender or heterosexual people ==
* [[Breeder (slang)|breeder]] – a heterosexual person, especially one with children<ref>{{cite news |last1=Liu |first1=Ling |date=26 July 2006 |title=Provincetown Straights Complain |publisher=[[SFGate]] |url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/07/26/national/a114741D30.DTL |access-date=21 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304222413/http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fnews%2Farchive%2F2006%2F07%2F26%2Fnational%2Fa114741D30.DTL |archive-date=4 March 2007}}</ref><ref name="Cambridgebreeder">{{cite web |title=Meaning of breeder in English |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/breeder |website=Cambridge Dictionary |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=2022-04-20 |archive-date=2023-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213104724/https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/breeder |url-status=live }}</ref> *{{Visible anchor|cisbian|text={{wt|en|cisbian|i=-}}}} ([[portmanteau]] of ''cis'' + ''lesbian'') – a cisgender lesbian * {{Visible anchor|cishet|text={{wt|en|cishet|i=-}}}} – someone who is cisgender and heterosexual and/or [[heteroromantic]] * {{Visible anchor|cisqueer|text={{wt|en|cisqueer|i=-}}}} – someone who is cisgender and [[queer]], such as cis lesbians, cis gay men, and cis bisexuals<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Collins |first=Anastasia M. |date=2018 |title=Language, Power, and Oppression in the LIS Diversity Void |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/706987 |journal=Library Trends |volume=67 |issue=1 |pages=39–51 |doi=10.1353/lib.2018.0024 |hdl=2142/101935 |issn=1559-0682 |access-date=2024-05-15 |archive-date=2024-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515013945/https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/706987 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=DeJaynes |first1=Tiffany |last2=Curmi-Hall |first2=Christopher |date=November 2019 |title=Transforming School Hallways Through Critical Inquiry: Multimodal Literacies for Civic Engagement |journal=Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy |volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=299–309 |doi=10.1002/jaal.991 }}</ref> * [[Trans chaser|chaser]] – someone [[Attraction to transgender people|attracted to transgender people]] who value them for their trans status alone, rather than being attracted to them as a person<ref name="transgendermap.com" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Milloy |first1=Christin Scarlett |author-link=Christin Milloy |date=2 October 2014 |title=Meet the Chasers, "Admirers" Who Really, Really Want to Date Trans People |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/10/trans-chasers-exploitive-admirers-who-harass-trans-people.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220428173501/https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/10/trans-chasers-exploitive-admirers-who-harass-trans-people.html |archive-date=28 April 2022 |access-date=20 April 2022 |work=Slate Magazine}}</ref> * [[fag hag]] – a heterosexual woman who specifically associates with gay men<ref name="Bering2010">{{cite web |last1=Bering |first1=Jesse |author-link=Jesse Bering |title=Studying the elusive "fag hag": Women who like men who like men |url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/studying-the-elusive-e2809cfag-hage2809d-women-who-like-men-who-like-men/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521071421/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/studying-the-elusive-e2809cfag-hage2809d-women-who-like-men-who-like-men/ |archive-date=2022-05-21 |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=Scientific American Blog Network |publisher=Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc.}}</ref><ref name="Dawne1995">{{cite journal |last1=Moon |first1=Dawne |date=December 1995 |title=Insult and Inclusion: The Term Fag Hag and Gay Male "Community" |journal=Social Forces |volume=74 |issue=2 |pages=487–510 |doi=10.2307/2580489 |jstor=2580489 }}</ref><ref name="Dictionaryfaghag">{{cite web |title=Fag hag Definition & Meaning |url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fag-hag |access-date=3 March 2022 |website=Dictionary.com |publisher=Dictionary.com, LLC |archive-date=3 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303011729/https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fag-hag |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Moon |first1=Dawne |title=Insult and Inclusion: The Term ''Fag Hag'' and Gay Male ''Community'' |journal=[[Social Forces]] |volume=74 |issue=2 |pages=487–510 |year=1995 |doi=10.2307/2580489 |jstor=2580489}}</ref> * [[fag stag]] – heterosexual man who enjoys company of gay men<ref name="Single in the City">{{cite web |last=The Single Guy |first=Jorge |date=29 June 2006 |title=Single in the City: Fag Stag |url=http://www.generationq.net/articles/Single-in-the-City-Fag-Stag-00001.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012105131/http://www.generationq.net/articles/Single-in-the-City-Fag-Stag-00001.html |archive-date=12 October 2008 |access-date=2008-07-23 |publisher=Generation Q Media}}</ref>
== Terms describing asexual or aromantic people == * ace – short for [[Asexuality|asexual]]<ref>{{cite web |author1=James Besanvalle |date=31 July 2018 |title=Here's a handy way to tell if someone you meet is asexual |url=https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/handy-way-tell-someone-asexual-ace-ring/ |access-date=18 January 2020 |website=[[Gay Star News]] |archive-date=18 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218141855/https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/handy-way-tell-someone-asexual-ace-ring/ }}</ref> * {{wt|en|asexy|i=-}} – asexual + [[sexiness|sexy]]<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oBgFAQAAIAAJ&q=%22asexy%22 |title=Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture |date=2007 |publisher=Bitch Publications |language=en |access-date=2024-01-12 |archive-date=2024-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112225809/https://books.google.com/books?ei=ZcBjUaC4D-PMiQLOvIGICQ&id=oBgFAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22asexy%22&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Crooks |first1=Robert L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MpRnPtmdRVwC&dq=%22asexy%22&pg=PA250 |title=Our Sexuality |last2=Baur |first2=Karla |date=2010-01-01 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-0-495-81294-4 |language=en |access-date=2024-01-12 |archive-date=2024-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112225810/https://books.google.com/books?id=MpRnPtmdRVwC&pg=PA250&dq=%22asexy%22&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> * aro – short for [[aromantic]]<ref name="Insider">{{cite web |author1=Sophia Mitrokostas |date=25 July 2018 |title=7 things you should know about identifying as aromantic — or not being romantically attracted to others |url=https://www.insider.com/what-is-aromantic-2018-7#a-person-who-is-aromantic-experiences-little-or-no-romantic-attraction-to-others-1 |access-date=18 January 2020 |website=Insider |archive-date=10 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310020043/https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-aromantic-2018-7#a-person-who-is-aromantic-experiences-little-or-no-romantic-attraction-to-others-1 |url-status=live }}</ref> * {{wt|en|aroace|i=-}}, aro-ace, aro/ace – both [[aromantic]] and [[asexuality|asexual]]<ref name="Insider" /> * ace of spades – an aromantic asexual<ref name="AceSuits">{{cite book |author1=Decker |first=Julie Sondra |author-link=Julie Sondra Decker |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vTSCDwAAQBAJ&q=ace+of+hearts |title=The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality |date=2015 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-5107-0064-2 |page=83 |access-date=18 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310020053/https://books.google.com/books?id=vTSCDwAAQBAJ&q=ace+of+hearts#v=snippet&q=ace%20of%20hearts&f=false |archive-date=10 March 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> * ace of hearts – a romantic asexual<ref name="AceSuits" /> * SAM – [[split attraction model]] – a model that sexual and romantic orientation can be split, often used within the aromantic and asexual community<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.glaad.org/amp/ace-guide-finding-your-community|title=explore the spectrum: guide to finding your ace community|publisher=GLAAD|website=glaad.org|date=27 October 2018|access-date=9 April 2023|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801045947/https://www.glaad.org/amp/ace-guide-finding-your-community|url-status=live}}</ref> * {{wt|en|squish|i=-}} – a non-romantic or [[Platonic love|platonic]] version of [[Crush (love)|crush]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-05-22 |title=Who's Your Main Squish? 15 Signs You're Squishing on Someone |url=https://www.lovepanky.com/love-couch/sweet-love/squish-signs |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=LovePanky – Your Guide to Better Love and Relationships |archive-date=2022-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601143001/https://www.lovepanky.com/love-couch/sweet-love/squish-signs |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-07-29 |title=Squish- That Platonic Crush You Always Experienced But Never Had A Name For |url=https://edtimes.in/squish-that-aromantic-crush-you-always-experienced-but-never-had-a-name-for/ |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=ED Times {{!}} Youth Media Channel |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508183955/https://edtimes.in/squish-that-aromantic-crush-you-always-experienced-but-never-had-a-name-for/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[queerplatonic relationship]] – committed [[intimate relationship]]s which are not [[Romance (love)|romantic]] nor (necessarily) [[Human sexual activity|sexual]] in nature * zucchini – queerplatonic partner<ref name="Chasin">{{cite journal |last1=Chasin |first1=CJ DeLuzio |date=2015 |title=Making Sense in and of the Asexual Community: Navigating Relationships and Identities in a Context of Resistance |journal=Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=167–180 |doi=10.1002/casp.2203}}</ref><ref name="Counterpoint">{{cite journal |date=September 2013 |title=The 'A' in LGBT |journal=Counterpoint |volume=35 |issue=1 |page=8}}</ref>
== LGBTQ subgroups == [[File:Pride_2004_bears.jpg|thumb|[[Bear (gay culture)|Bears]] marching in San Francisco's [[pride parade]] in 2004]] The following slang terms have been used to represent various types of people within the [[LGBTQ community]]:
* [[Bear (gay culture)|bear]] – a larger and often [[Body hair|hairier]] man. The bear subgroup is among the oldest and largest of the LGBTQ community. Pride.com states "Bears are on the heavier side, either muscular, beefy, or chunky. They wouldn't dream of shaving their body hair (which comes in abundance) and they usually have a full beard to match."<ref name=":03">{{Cite web |date=2020-01-08 |title=Popular Gay Slang Inspired by the Animal Kingdom |url=https://www.pride.com/identities/2016/4/05/popular-gay-slang-inspired-animal-kingdom |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418120241/https://www.pride.com/identities/2016/4/05/popular-gay-slang-inspired-animal-kingdom |archive-date=2022-04-18 |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=Pride.com |publisher=[[Here Media]] |language=en}}</ref> [[Attitude (magazine)|''Attitude'' magazine]] describes bears as "typically older" with a big build, a belly, and lots of hair.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |date=2018-09-07 |title=Jaguar discuss the culture of animal labelling in community |url=http://attitude.co.uk/article/be-your-own-animal/18589/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220420145826/https://attitude.co.uk/article/be-your-own-animal/18589/ |archive-date=2022-04-20 |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=[[Attitude (magazine)|Attitude]] |language=en}}</ref> There are many bear 'subtypes', including the black bear ([[Black people|Black]] or African American men), the brown bear ([[Hispanic]] men), the grizzly bear ("dominant bears of extreme stature or hairiness"),<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Bear Necessities |url=https://eugeneweekly.com/2015/02/12/the-bear-necessities/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417064822/https://eugeneweekly.com/2015/02/12/the-bear-necessities/ |archive-date=2021-04-17 |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=Eugene Weekly|date=12 February 2015 }}</ref> the koala bear (Australian men),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Griffiths |first=Dave |title=Op-Ed: Bears, Otters or Wolves…Oh My! But What Am I? |url=https://southfloridagaynews.com/Guest-Columnists/op-ed-bears-otters-or-wolves-oh-my-but-what-am-i.html |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=South Florida Gay News |language=en-gb |archive-date=2022-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007051446/https://southfloridagaynews.com/Guest-Columnists/op-ed-bears-otters-or-wolves-oh-my-but-what-am-i.html |url-status=live }}</ref> the panda bear (men of [[Asian people|Asian]] descent),<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Quidley-Rodriguez |first1=Narciso |last2=De Santis |first2=Joseph P. |title=A Literature Review of Health Risks in the Bear Community, a Gay Subculture |journal=American Journal of Men's Health |date=November 2017 |volume=11 |issue=6 |pages=1673–1679 |doi=10.1177/1557988315624507 |pmc=5675254 |pmid=26718773 }}</ref> and the polar bear, which represents an older bear with white hair<ref name=":03" /> ** cub – a younger bear.<ref name=":12" /> Pride.com describes cubs as "baby bears" or "large, hairy guys in their teens and 20s who are on their way to becoming a bear"<ref name="Baker 2010" />{{rp|p=104}}<ref name="SCRUFF" /><ref name=":03" /> ** bear chaser – a man who pursues [[Bear (gay culture)|bears]]<ref name="SCRUFF" /> ** otter – a man who is slender and hairy<ref name=":03" /><ref name=":12" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-11-27 |title=The Ultimate LGBT Glossary: all your questions answered |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/11/27/the-ultimate-lgbt-glossary-all-your-questions-answered/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307232323/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/11/27/the-ultimate-lgbt-glossary-all-your-questions-answered/ |archive-date=2022-03-07 |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=[[PinkNews]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> ** wolf – Pride.com says, "Similar to an otter, a [[wolf]] has some hair and is in between a twink and a bear. However, there are some key differences between wolves and otters. Wolves typically have a lean, muscular build and are sexually aggressive."<ref name=":03" /> ''Attitude'' says wolves are "typically older and masculine" with a "muscular/athletic build"<ref name=":12" /><ref name="Baker 2010" />{{rp|p=212}} * bull – [[Here Media]] says a bull is a "hunky, muscular" bodybuilder who weighs 200 pounds or more. The website says, "These men are big, strong and have muscles you didn't even know existed."<ref name=":03" /> ''Attitude'' says bulls have a "super-muscular build" with any hair style, and can be any age<ref name=":12" /> * [[Chicken (gay slang)|chicken]] – a young [[twink]].<ref name=":03" /> ''Attitude'' says chickens are "hairless and young" with a slim or skinny build<ref name=":12" /> * [[Chickenhawk (gay slang)|chickenhawk]] – a typically older man who seeks younger men. From [[Chickenhawk (bird)|''chickenhawk'']], a designation for several birds which are thought to hunt chickens<ref name=":03" /> * pig – someone who is "more focused on sex than anything else, often into [[Kink (sexuality)|kinkier]] and somewhat seedier sexual practices", according to Pride.com<ref name=":03" /> * silver fox – an older man with gray hair<ref name=":12" /> * [[twink]] – a young or young-looking gay man, with little body hair and a slender build<ref>{{cite web |title=Twink definition |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=twink |access-date=18 February 2013 |work=Online dictionary |publisher=Online Etymology Dictionary |archive-date=22 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222170135/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=twink |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Baker 2010" />{{rp|p=206}}<ref name="SCRUFF" /> * twunk – a twink with well-developed physique (from ''twink'' + ''hunk'')<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-06 |title="Twunk": Here's What This Word Really Means |url=https://linguaholic.com/linguablog/the-word-twunk-demystified/ |access-date=2022-05-12 |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521072145/https://linguaholic.com/linguablog/the-word-twunk-demystified/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=L. Maki |first=Justin |date=2017 |title=Gay Subculture Identification: Training Counselors to Work With Gay Men |url=https://www.counseling.org/knowledge-center/vistas/by-subject2/vistas-group-counseling/docs/default-source/vistas/gay-subculture-identification |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=www.counseling.org |archive-date=2022-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601124330/https://www.counseling.org/knowledge-center/vistas/by-subject2/vistas-group-counseling/docs/default-source/vistas/gay-subculture-identification |url-status=live }}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Human sexuality|Language|LGBTQ}} * [[Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric]] * [[Gender transposition]] * [[Handkerchief code]] * [[LGBTQ linguistics]] * [[Terminology of homosexuality]]
==References== ===Citations=== {{reflist}}
===Works cited=== {{refbegin|2}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Dalzell |editor1-first=Tom |editor2-last=Victor |editor2-first=Terry |title=The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J–Z |date=2006 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |isbn=978-0-415-25938-5}} * {{cite book |last1=Dalzell |first1=Tom |title=The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English |date=2008 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-19478-0 }} * {{cite book |editor-last1=Dynes |editor-first1=Wayne R |editor-last2=Johansson |editor-first2=Warren |editor-last3=Percy |editor-first3=William A |editor-last4=Donaldson |editor-first4=Stephen|title=Encyclopedia of homosexuality |date=1990 |publisher=Garland Publishing Company |location=New York |isbn=0-8240-6544-1}} * {{cite book |last1=Green |first1=Jonathon |title=Cassell's Dictionary of Slang |date=2005 |publisher=Sterling Publishing Company |isbn=978-0-304-36636-1 }} {{refend}}
==Further reading== {{refbegin|2}} * {{cite book |last1=Rodgers |first1=Bruce |title=The Queens' Vernacular – A Gay Lexicon |publisher=[[Straight Arrow Books]] |year=1972 |isbn=978-0-87932-026-3 |oclc=508274}} * T., Anna (2020). ''Opacity - Minority - Improvisation: An Exploration of the Closet Through Queer Slangs and Postcolonial Theory.'' Bielefeld: Transcript. {{ISBN|978-3-8376-5133-1}}. {{refend}}
==External links== * {{cite news |last1=Gill |first1=Liz |title=Lavender linguistics |id={{ProQuest|189144744}} |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jul/14/referenceandlanguages.gayrights |work=The Guardian |date=14 July 2003 }} * {{cite thesis |id={{ProQuest|1346229730}} |last1=Frederick |first1=Brian J |date=2012 |title=Partying with a purpose: Finding meaning in an online 'party 'n' play' subculture }}
{{LGBT slang}} {{LGBTQ|state=collapsed|culture=expanded}} {{Sexual slang}}
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