Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Beulah n.

[a stereotypical, if old-fashioned black female name]

(US black gay) a black homosexual, often as term of direct address.

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[US]M. West Pleasure Man III:1: 3rd Boy: My, what a low-cut dress you’ve got! 4th Boy: Why, Beulah, a woman with a back like mine can be low as she wants to be [Simes:DLSS].
[US]B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 62: a black man [...] Beulah (black gay sl) [...] Beulah-lover (black gay sl).
Laurie & Evans Outlines 55: Beulah a beautiful man; to be beautiful; beautiful [...] ‘Notch that Beulah! What a lunch!’ [Simes:DLSS].