Green’s Dictionary of Slang

commoner n.

1. an amateur or second-rate boxer.

[UK]Egan Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 219: The slang remarks of the commoners in tossing off their drams.

2. (US gay) a heterosexual.

[US]B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.
[US]Maledicta III:2 218: Though much rejected themselves, gays reject straights as commoners and civilians, enforce some conformity within their own ranks (with terms to distinguish and describe what is politically correct).