Dick Lesch’s Gui to Seventi Gay Slang | The New Yorker

Contents:

• GAY MOM
• 12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
• GAY SLANG
• YOUR MOM GAY
• DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG

GAY MOM

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12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!

In the 60s and 70s, gay men even had a “hanky ” – a system that volved wearg bandanas wh lors that signified whether you were a top, bottom, to BDSM, etc.

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GAY SLANG

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YOUR MOM GAY

Molly and tommy: In 18th century England, the term molly was ed for male homosexuals, implyg effemacy; Tommy, a slang term for a homosexual woman e by 1781, may have been ed by analogy wh molly.

DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG

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