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GAY TERMINOLOGY

Bog Queen - A gay man who frequents public toilets for sex.

Breeders - A derogatory term for heterosexuals, especially for those who glorify childbearing.

Circle Jerk - Group masturbation or jerking off.

Closet, The - Not revealing one's sexual orientation to the general population.

Commitment Ceremony - A public affirmation of your commitment and union. Often has roots within pagan ceremonies.

Cottage - Public toilet. Not used much today except by older men.

Drag - Dressed in a way usually identified with the opposite sex.

Drag Queen - A man who dresses like a woman.

Dyke - A lesbian. The term derives from the nineteenth-century slang word dike, which referred to male clothing, and when it was first used to refer to women, it carried a derogatory connotation of masculine appearance or behavior.

Fag Hag - A heterosexual woman who socializes extensively with gay men.

Faggot (also Fag) - A male homosexual. Like dyke, this term was originally used as an epithet, but has been adopted by many of the people to whom it refers. There is no general agreement about the origin of the term.

Fairy - A male homosexual, especially one who acts or dresses in an effeminate manner. This was a common derogatory term for homosexuals during much of the twentieth century. Like dyke and faggot, it has been reclaimed by gay people.

Fairy Lady - Term used in the mid-1900's for a lesbian bottom.

Family - Meaning being part of the lesbian and gay community. As in, "He's a member of the family. He's gay."

Feigele - A Yiddish term for gay that is derived from the word bird.

Femme - A lesbian or gay man who acts and dresses effeminately.

Fist - To insert part or all of one's hand into the anus or vagina of a sex partner.

French Embassy - Any location,especially a gym or Y, where gay sex is readily available.

Friend of Dorothy's - Referred to as being gay. This term has roots from Judy Garland, whose musical ability and tragic life story were so popular with gay audiences and of course from, "The Wizard of Oz", the classic musical.

Frig - Sex between two women, often involving one rubbing the genitals of the other with her fingers; probably derived from friction.

Gay - Homosexual. In the seventeenth century, gay expanded from its earlier meaning of cheerful and came also to refer to men with a reputation for being playboys.

Gaydar - The uncanny sensory perception that lesbians and gays have of detecting other gay people in their midst.

Glory Hole - A hole carved in the partition between stalls in a men's room, and used for sexual liaisons.

Government-Inspected Meat - A gay man in the armed forces.

Greek - To engage in anal intercourse. In its more common usage as an adjective, the term refers to a preference for anal sex.

Guppies - Gay urban professionals, or gay yuppies.

Gynaeotrope - A lesbian. Kurt Hiller suggested this term in 1946 (and androtrope for a gay male), because of what he considered the negative connotations of "homosexual." Neither term caught on.

Harness - Usually made of leather, this device is strapped over the hips and crotch (over the thigh for a thigh harness), to hold a dildo in place for sexual penetration.

Harriets -  a word used in some countries where a gay man would say to another gay man that his harriets look nice which meant "you hair looks nice".

Helmet - Circumcised.

Homophobia - Irrational fear of gay people and of homosexuality. George Weinberg, author of Society and the Healthy Homosexual, coined this word in the early 1970's. It filled a need for a gay people at that time because, in one word, it eloquently conveyed the idea that it was gay-bashers, not gays themselves, who had a problem.

Homosexual - Attracted physically to people of the same sex.

Honeypot - A woman's genitals.

Hundred-And-Seventy-Fiver - A homosexual. Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code of 1871 outlawed homosexual practices; thus a 175er in Germany was someone violating this paragraph.

Hung - Well-endowed; having a large penis. The term can also be used more generally: "He was hung like a mouse "means " he has a small penis."

In the Life - Gay. Most common within the black community.

Intermediate Sex - Homosexual. The term was used by Edward Carpenter and others around the turn of the century, but soon fell into disfavor.

Kiki - 1940s slang term for a lesbian comfortable with either a passive or aggressive partner.

Kinsey Six - A person who is completely homosexual, as opposed to one with some bisexual inclinations.

Kosher - Circumcised .

KY - A brand of water-soluble lubricant often used for sex.

Lavender Law - Legal issues, practice and study pertaining to the gay and lesbian community.

Lesbian - A gay woman. The ancient Greek poet Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos. As Sappho became known for her poems celebrating love between women, the term lesbian changed its primary meaning from "one who lives on Lesbos" to "a woman like Sappho and her followers."

Library - An adult bookstore.

Lilies of the Valley - Hemorrhoids.

Lollipop Stop - A highway rest stop used by gay men for cruising.

Luppies - Lesbian urban professionals, or lesbian yuppies.

Make a Milk Run - To cruise a men's room.

Mariposa - This Spanish word for butterfly has come to also refer to a male homosexual.

Meat Rack - A gay male cruising area.

Moumoune -  The French Canadian term for a gay man.

Muff Diving - Cunnilingus.

Nancy - An effeminate man (Nancy boy).

Napkin Ring - A cock ring.

Number - A trick, casual sex partner.

One-Eyed Cyclops - (French) The head of the penis.

Out - Open about one's sexual orientation to the general population.

Pansy - An effeminate gay man, usually used derogatorily. The term has been in use at least since the 1920's.

Poof - A gay man. This word generally derogatory, is common in Australia and England. Sometimes also poofter.

Princeton Rub - Intercourse between two men in which one's penis rubs between the other's thigh, or between the two men's abdomens.

Queen - An effeminate gay man. Gay men who aspire to royalty will be disappointed to learn that this usage of the word queen is only a distant relative of the queen who sits on a throne. It is linguistically closer to quean - a disparaging word for an unpleasant or promiscuous woman, dating to the sixteenth century.

Queer - Homosexual, usually meaning reference to men. Originally meaning "odd," the term seems to have taken on this meaning early in the twentieth century.

Rim - To lick or suck the anus of a sex partner.

S&M - Sadism and masochism. S&M enthusiasts derive part of their pleasure from inflicting pain or humiliation (the sadist) or having pain inflicted upon them (the masochist) - but always within defined and mutually agreed limits.

Sapphistry - Lesbian love; derived from Sappho, the lesbian poet of ancient Greece.

Significant Other - A partner in a serious relationship. In the early 1970s, unhappy with terms such as lover, girlfriend, and boyfriend for describing same-sex partners, some gay men and lesbians began using the term significant other.

Size Queen - A gay man who is especially interested in partners with large penises.

Tearoom - A public lavatory that is often cruised by gay men.

Tribadism - Lesbianism; sometimes used specifically to descibe sexual activity in which one women rubs another's pudenda with her thigh or with a dildo. The term originated with ancient Greeks.

Turtleneck - Uncircumcised.

Uncut - Uncircumcised.

Urning - A homosexual male. This term was introduced by Karl Heinrich Ulrich's in 1864 as part of his theory of homosexuality. Ulrich's, who was himself homosexual, was attempting to explain homosexuality in a positive light.

Vanilla Sex - Relatively conventional forms of sexual activity, usually contrast to S&M sex.