Gay Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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trisexual adj. “Trisexual” also works, she said with a snicker: “I’ll try anything once and if I like it, I’ll try it again and again and again.” [English Gay Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Jul. 22, 2005)

two-spirited adj. Issues of similarity and difference are played out in a different way in Sabine Lang’s account of the difficulties she faced trying to carry out research among Native American “two-spirited” women. [Gay Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (May. 19, 2004)

Urning n. Karl Ulrichs was a civil servant in the small city-state of Hanover…As early as 1862 he had coined the word “Urning” to describe a male sexually attracted to other males, which he believed derived from a kind of intersexuality in some brains. The English translation is “Uranian.” This term&mash;based on a myth in Plato’s “Sym posium” that referred to a god dess of men who love men—was picked up and used throughout Europe and England. [English Gay Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Jun. 7, 2004)

Velvet Mafia n. But the homosexual lobby focuses us on the “hard cases”—children (who have incidentally contracted AIDS from parents involved in drug needle use or aberrant sex)—to legitimize all. If indeed there is a GOP Velvet Mafia, as they are called, in Washington, they are assuredly working against the pro-life movement. [English Gay Politics] [full cite] (Nov. 17, 2006)

Velvet Mafia n. It’s a shadowy group of media and entertainment tycoons that author Churcher refers to as “the Velvet Mafia and the male-bonding set.” [English Gay] [full cite] (Nov. 17, 2006)

Velvet Mafia n. I remember an argument about Sam Kinison, and Andrew Dice Clay, on this board a while back. I don’t know if people know it, but their backers…are on the official hollywood “closet” list.… Also known as the “Velvet Mafia,” I believe. [English Gay Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 17, 2006)

water chestnut n. Best of all, “water chestnut,” which, for reasons that elude me, refers to a Japanese male homosexual. Just be careful next time you’re in a Chinese restaurant, you breeders: who knows what you might be ordering. [English Gay Sex & Sexuality Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 12, 2008)

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