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Many slang words and colloquial expressions in general usage in the LGBTQ community are derived from the everyday street jargon and informal speech employed by the drag subculture, the black gay subculture, the underground ballroom subculture, the gay bar scene, the gay dating scene, and the online chat texting community.

--Fam: Family. Member of the LGBTQ community.

--Gold Star Lesbian: Lesbian who has never had sex with a man.

--Platinum Gay: Gay man who has never had sex with a woman.

--Lipstick Lesbian: Lesbian who prefers to wear makeup and looks extremely (conventionally) femini

LGBTQIA+ Slurs and Slang

TermContextual noteTime/Region Referencesace queens term meaning “great queen”. Prison slang for a bloke who wears a more “feminine” look i.e. shaved legs, plucked eyebrows. May be described as part of incarcerated homosexual culture. Should not be confused with the more widely-used term "ace," a shortening of "asexual." Watch "asexual." UK, USA, s Mosca de Colores – Gay Dictionary alphabet peopleOffensive contemporary term for LGBTQ+ people, often used by right-wing people reacting to perceived advancements in LGBTQ+ people's rights. s- Green's Dictionary of Slang - bathroom queen

bog queen

Gay slang expression for people who frequent public toilets looking for sexual encounters.

Synonyms: Bathsheba (composition between bathroom and Sheba to make a name reminiscent of the Queen of Sheba), Ghost (50s, ghost, because they wander the corridors of the bathroom).

USA, UK Mosca de Colores – Gay Dictionary batting for the other teamA euphemistic phrase indicating that someone (of any gender) is gay. T

While browsing recently through the accessible back issues of Oz magazine I noticed a guide to gay slang that I didn&#;t recall seeing before. The underground magazines and newspapers of the 60s and 70s were a lot more tolerant of the nascent gay rights movement than their &#;straight&#; (ie: non-freak) counterparts. Oz magazine published pieces about gay rights, notably so in issue 23 which ran an extract from The Homosexual Handbook () by Angelo d&#;Arcangelo among a couple of other features; the UK&#;s first gay magazine, Jeremy, advertised regularly in Oz and IT; later issues of Oz carried ads for another gay mag, Follow Up, and there&#;s a letter in one issue from a gay freak complaining about the state of the few gay pubs in London where the clientele was apparently not freaky enough. (His solution was to try and persuade them all to release acid.) Arguments which still circulate today, between those who verb to assimilate and those who prefer to remain separate from general society, go back a long way.

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The Guysexual’s Urban Dictionary for Gay Slang

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