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FAIRY WGS GAYWGS BLOOMG THE FORT WH WTERGREEN
* gay fairy wings *
2) A gay man who acts more stereotypilly feme than most straight women.
2) A ually rogatory term for a gay male, pecially one who is flamboyant and acts more "feme" than a woman (as if there were somethg wrong wh beg feme). *An offensive word toward a homosexual. Gay Fairi: When and Why.
But somewhere down the list is a gay man.
GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
For much of the 20C 'fairy' was ed to mean 'gay'. Where do this sense e om and when was first ed? Probably the US's east ast the late 19C. * gay fairy wings *
But there are, fact, a number of works of cultural history that make somethg of the fairy = gay nnectn. The Longer Oxford English Dictnary has, as s fifth and fal meang for fairy: ‘A male homosexual.
Fairy wgs or gaywgs bloom a Pennsylvania fort. Wtergreen or teaberry still has red berri. Hot pk flowers draw attentn to this sprg ephemeral. * gay fairy wings *
But how much earlier did ‘fairy’ mean homosexual?
This cis wh what is known of the peculiar societi of verts [homosexuals].
Jt recently I heard a iend of me tell how the e of fairy to refer to a gay male me om the time when men were typilly ed to play female parts plays and the type of male who would take the part was more effemate and often a homosexual..
Barbiemania htg s peak summer 2023 helped one 30-year-old wrer release the childhood shame he felt when playg wh Barbie dolls as a young gay child. * gay fairy wings *
Could fairy have been extend om there to mean homosexual?
Third, blogger Lisa Spangenbeg wr tentatively that fairi = gay bee fairi are barren. Homosexual culture is not, by any means, a simple effort for men to bee women: but the ey of neteenth-century society this is what homosexualy was.
I’d back gay ‘fairi’ g om this sense of the word. An old iend of this blog, Leif wr, 16 Mar 2018: Why are gay men referred to as fairi? But is trigug to nsir that the term may have origated wh the homosexual unrworld of the ‘Yellow Neti’, perhaps as a kd of word.