01-24-2015, 10:24 PM
@Hardheaded1's thread about the use of the word homosexual got me thinking about this again...
One time in an old gay book from the 1980s I read there was a mile long list of things gay people were called before the words 'gay' and 'homosexual' came along. I don't even remember the name of the book or what it was about except that the Marlboro Man committed suicide... and I don't remember the list of names.
I've looked online several times for other names for homosexuals and gays but never have found one... and I don't mean all the current slang terms but the historical ones.
I remember reading other places about "us" being called
Uranians in a book about Oscar Wilde.
So anyone anyone remember others?
One time in an old gay book from the 1980s I read there was a mile long list of things gay people were called before the words 'gay' and 'homosexual' came along. I don't even remember the name of the book or what it was about except that the Marlboro Man committed suicide... and I don't remember the list of names.
I've looked online several times for other names for homosexuals and gays but never have found one... and I don't mean all the current slang terms but the historical ones.
I remember reading other places about "us" being called
Uranians in a book about Oscar Wilde.
So anyone anyone remember others?