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[US] Russo ‘Camp’ in Levine Gay Men (1979) 206: Police become ‘Alice blue gown’ or ‘Tillie law’.
at Alice (Blue Gown), n.
[US] Russo ‘Camp’ in Levine Gay Men (1979) 207: Camping it up [...] became a play on what society said all gay men were like.
at camp about (v.) under camp, v.2
[US] Russo ‘Camp’ in Levine Gay Men (1979) 205: There is a church [...] which has come to be known, in limited circles, as a ‘campy place to go to church’.
at campy, adj.
[US] Russo ‘Camp’ in Levine Gay Men (1979) 209: We now have ‘closet’ opera fans and people ‘coming out’ as vegetarians.
at come out, v.
[US] Russo ‘Camp’ in Levine Gay Men (1979) 209: Calculated camp, packaged so that people will think she’s bringing them the real ‘dish’ from the inside.
at dish, n.2
[US] Warren ‘Women Among Men’ in Levine Gay Men (1979) 229: The men were more likely to use the gay woman than the ‘fag hags’ for stigma evasion.
at fag-hag, n.2
[US] Warren ‘Women Among Men’ in Levine Gay Men (1979) 229: Fag hag (in different regions the term may be fruit fly or faggotina).
at faggot, n.1
[US] Warren ‘Women Among Men’ in Levine Gay Men (1979) 234: Penny (a masculine lesbian) said she had married a gay guy for companionship in a ‘front marriage’.
at front marriage (n.) under front, adj.
[US] Russo ‘Camp’ in Levine Gay Men (1979) 206: The phrase ‘Get you, Mary!’ is always directed at gay men.
at Mary, n.
[US] Russo ‘Camp’ in Levine Gay Men (1979) 206: Police become ‘Alice blue gown’ or ‘Tillie law.’.
at tilly, n.3
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