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[US] Alice Blackwell letter in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 178: One thing that damaged the health of the girls seriously was ‘smashes’ – an extraordinary habit which they have of falling violently in love with each other.
at smashed, adj.
[US] Lichtenstein & Werner Medical Rev. of Reviews in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 402: She had indulged in the practice of ‘bull-diking’.
at bull-dyking, n.
[US] Lichtenstein & Werner Medical Rev. of Reviews in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 401: Does the ‘fairy’ or ‘fag’ really exist?
at fag, n.4
[US] G. Stein Miss Furr and Miss Skeene in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 406: Helen Furr and Georgine Skeene lived together then. Georgine Skeene liked travelling. Helen Furr did not care about travelling, she liked to stay in one place and be gay there. They were together then and travelled to another place and stayed there and were gay there [...] She told many then the way of being gay, she taught very many then little ways they could use in being gay.
at gay, adj.
[US] N.Y. Times 20 June in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 426: This book of stories [...] touches upon a peculiarly poignant situtation in ‘The Pash,’ which is the variety of impassioned attachments of a young girl for an older woman that American college girls know as a ‘crush’.
at pash, n.
[US] A.J. Rosanoff Manual of Psychiatry in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 440: Cruising, going out in search of a partner.
at cruising, n.
[US] A.J. Rosanoff Manual of Psychiatry in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 440: A drag, a social gathering of homosexuals at which some are in female dress.
at drag, n.1
[US] A.J. Rosanoff Manual of Psychiatry in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 439: Fruit, fruiter, fairy, a passive homosexual.
at fruit, n.
[US] A.J. Rosanoff Manual of Psychiatry in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 439: Turk, wolf, or jocker, an active sodomist.
at jocker, n.1
[US] A.J. Rosanoff Manual of Psychiatry in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 440: Sixty-nine, position assumed for mutual irrumation.
at sixty-nine, n.
[US] A.J. Rosanoff Manual of Psychiatry in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 439: Orchard, a park or other such place frequented by homosexuals.
at orchard, n.
[US] A.J. Rosanoff Manual of Psychiatry in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 440: Tea house, a public lavatory frequented by homosexuals.
at tearoom, n.
[US] in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 625: Femme [is] common in gay parlance.
at femme, n.
[US] in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 626: In New York [...] the expression [i.e. for a lesbian who switches gender roles] is ‘ki-ki,’ but no-one elsewhere seems to be familiar with this peculiar term.
at kiki, n.1
[US] Gay Almanac 96: SNOWBALL: Oral exchange of semen after mutual, simultaneous oral sex.
at snowball, n.1
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