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- CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
- A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
- HOW TO USE TR DIFFERENTLY FOR GAY
- GAY BEARS
CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
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A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
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As many members of the LGBTQ+ muny will know, an "otter" is a word ed to scribe a th and hairy gay man.
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Bear - A gay man who tends to be large, hairy, butch and sometim mistaken as heterosexual.
HOW TO USE TR DIFFERENTLY FOR GAY
Otter is a term ed by gay men, referrg to a subset of men who blend the physil and social tras of both bears and twks, both vokg and fyg tradnal... * gay bears terms *
Cub - A young gay man who is often hairy and heavy-set, and likely to grow to a bear. Otter - A hairy yet lean gay man; not que as hairy as a bear and not que as young as a twk. Flamer - A particularly effemate or mp gay man.
Twk - Like a chicken, he is a gay man who is generally small and youthful, wh ltle facial or body hair.
Chicken - A young or young-lookg gay man (or sometim an unrage boy) who is often pretty the face and sexually naive. 30 Kky Terms Every Gay Man Needs to Know.
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The gay world is often reprented as some sort of monolhic whole that has the same culture. It is actually broken down to a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs.
One of the many long-standg gay subcultur, a bear an LGBTQIA+ ntext is a large, hairy queer man who self-intifi wh the 'bear' label. Beg a bear b genr exprsn, genr inty, and sexualy; a large, hairy straight man would not be a bear. They are generally... * gay bears terms *
Here they like the world at large may stereotype gays as mcg wrist flippers wh great taste bent on givg everyone they meet a make over. That said, when the gays see a fellow homosexual the public sphere, we try to plug them to the nvenient taxonomy the muny has ma for self. They may not be very faiar to the world at large, but they are certaly faiar to the brothers butt say that each gay person belongs to one of the typ is a b ceptive.
Dcriptn: This young breed of gays is never over 30 and tends to be on the queeny si and hews closely to the nventnal stereotyp of gay man. Wild, ornery, and still gettg over their g out issu, the twk is the gay gone wild, and is ba to olr men who are to tryg to suck off their youthful energy.
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Subtegori: The Twunk, the Gay-sian, the A&F boy.