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Quiet Fire: Memoirs of Older Gay Men choose

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[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 28: All they do is gossip. That’s not my bag.
at bag, n.2
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 67: Usually it’s wham, bam, thank you ma’am, which we feel is wrong.
at wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am, phr.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 27: Some trick had been in and wanted to watch me fuck her while he beat off.
at beat off, v.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 174: There were the ‘belles,’ the piss-elegant queens.
at belle, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 166: I called up a very nice gentleman in Atlanta who’s big in AA.
at big, adj.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 77: This bitch drag screwed me.
at bitch, adj.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 189: The word ‘fucking’ was then called ‘browning’.
at browning, n.1
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 65: Paul was a milktoast who wouldn’t say ‘shit’ if he had a mouthful.
at Caspar Milquetoast, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 189: At that time ‘gay’ was a secret password. Code words were carefully parceled out. ‘Chi chi’ was another.
at chichi, adj.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 74: The little male prostitute, prick peddler, if you say ‘Hmmm, you’re not what I’m looking for, fella, I like the fems, the ladies,’ they quickly find that maybe they could do that.
at dick peddler (n.) under dick, n.1
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 70: I don’t mean to be a lush or a dirty old man in a bar.
at dirty old man, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 77: This bitch drag screwed me.
at drag, n.1
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 74: Also [...] the little male prostitute, prick peddler, if you say ‘Hmmm, you’re not what I’m looking for, fella, I like the fems, the ladies,’ they quickly find that maybe they could do that.
at femme, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 65: You just can’t take that many drugs [...] you feel like a zombie. And I said, ‘Bullshit, I’ve got too good a mind, I don’t like being fogged.’.
at fogged, adj.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 146: I kissed him and he started Frenching.
at French, v.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 146: Come on, you are a tutti-fruity, aren’t you?
at tutti-frutti, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 174: It was very common to use words like ‘camp,’ ‘trade,’ or ‘Get her!’.
at get her! (excl.) under get, v.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 159: We moved to L.A. and were [...] going to all the glory holes and all the gay hot spots.
at glory hole, n.1
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 115: A toss in the hay does not make for a relationship.
at roll in the hay, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 159: We moved to L.A. and were [...] going to all the glory holes and all the gay hot spots.
at hot spot, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 157: He came back to the base about two o’clock in the morning, three sheets to the wind.
at three sheets in the wind, phr.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 157: I had to have sex with him a jillion times.
at jillion, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 32: I don’t act like that with all that ‘May’ and ‘Mary’ shit. It shows so little discretion.
at Mary, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 64: He hadn’t done anything about it, just fantasizing, buying muscle magazines.
at muscle boy (n.) under muscle, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 161: It’s really changed from the one-horse town I knew.
at one-horse (adj.) under one, adj.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 142: My dad walloped the pants off me.
at pants, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 173: He did have a lovely piece of meat.
at piece of meat (n.) under piece, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 45: We fucked, we sucked, I don’t think we rimmed.
at rim, v.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 45: Rimming wasn’t a big thing in the United States after the war.
at rimming, n.
[US] K. Vacha Quiet Fire 65: Paul weas a milktoast who wouldn’t say ‘shit’ if he had a mouthful.
at wouldn’t say shit if (one) had a mouthful (v.) under shit, n.
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