boi

n. a feminine male homosexual or a masculine lesbian. Subjects: English, Gay, Sex & Sexuality

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Citations: 1997 Usenet: rec.music.industrial (Aug. 14) “Re: Industrial Web Pages! Labels!”: You want to become a bigamist? ANd a gay one?! Well, you look feminine enough in that Goth Boi Babe picture. 1999 Deana Finley Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Feb. 17) “Rave Review For Rave Scene” p. 1G: A cute raver boi (a male raver, pronounced like “boy”) in a T- shirt that read “I Love Ghetto” carried a bag of Blow Pops (along with one in his mouth) and handed them out. 2003 Sandra McLean Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Australia) (June 7) “It’s A Boi Thing”: Some of these women are getting physical. They bind their breasts to erase any hint of a cleavage, others are “packing,“ which is boy (oops, boi) poseur talk for stuffing socks, a dildo or whatever down their designer duds to help them pass the he-man test. 2004 GO NYC (New York City) (Feb. 3) “Gloss Celebrates Four Years” p. 39: Girlie girls are dressed to impress and bois, butches, andros, trannies and all the in-betweens flirt, dance and drink until the wee hours. 2004 Rona Marech San Francisco Chronicle (California) (Feb. 8) “Nuances of gay identities reflected in new language ” p. A1: A “boi” describes a boyish gay guy or a biological female with a male presentation.…Justin, who is 19 and didn’t want to use his last name because he’s not out to his family as transgender, calls himself a “boi”—with an “i”—because he feels like a boy—with a “y”—but “I don’t have the boy parts, as much as I wish I did.“ 2005 Jennifer Vanasco Southern Voice (Atlanta, Ga.) (May 27) “The death of femme”: Young women who once called themselves butch now call themselves tranny bois, and these tranny bois are mostly dating each other.

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boi is commonly used as a synonym to “twink”

by killaken 14 Oct 08, 1007 GMT