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[US] in E. Newton Mother Camp (1972) 27: There are no feminine counterparts of the male S-M queens, T-room queens, chicken queens, park queens, brownie queens, butch hustlers, dinge queens, hormone queens, and so on.
at hormone queen (n.) under hormone, n.
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 27: The segregation is roughly by decades: ‘chickens’ under twenty; [...] and ‘aunties,’ forty and over.
at auntie, n.2
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 75: He kneels on the sidewalk ‘blowing’ on passing men for quarters.
at blow, v.2
[US] (con. 1965) E. Newton Mother Camp 110: You may be talking to one of the butchest queens in the world, but you still say, ‘Oh, girl’.
at butch, adj.
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 36: A great deal of ‘camping’ goes on wherever gay people congregate at parties.
at camp, n.2
[US] (con. 1965) E. Newton Mother Camp 110: A ‘camp’ herself is a queen [...] A camp is a flip person who has declared emotional freedom.
at camp, n.2
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 111: Campy queens are very often said to be ‘bitches’ just as camp humor is said to be ‘bitchy’.
at campy, adj.
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 27: The segregation is roughly by decades: ‘chickens’ under twenty; [...] and ‘aunties,’ forty and over.
at chicken, n.
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 81: To hold up in a ‘dishing’ contest is much admired.
at dish, v.
[US] (con. 1965) E. Newton Mother Camp 100: A drag butch is a lesbian who often, or habitually, dresses in male attire.
at drag-king (n.) under drag, n.1
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 33: The process of sending out subtle cues or ‘feelers’ is called ‘dropping the hairpin.’ (This phrase is also used when one has made an outright admission of homosexuality).
at drop (one’s) hairpins, v.
[US] (con. 1965) E. Newton Mother Camp 83: Skip re-appears in ‘face’ but men’s clothes.
at face, n.
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 32: Female homosexuals also make a distinction between ‘butch’ and ‘fem’.
at femme, adj.
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 44: The stripper always wears a ‘gaff’ to conceal (strap back) his genitals.
at gaff, n.4
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 28: In Chicago there are whole occupational groups that are considered part of the gay world, such as ‘hairburners’.
at hairburner (n.) under hair, n.
[US] (con. 1965) E. Newton Mother Camp 80: Jeri and his butch ‘husband’ [...] were a handsome and well known couple.
at husband, n.
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 33: ‘Leather queens’ do not look like straight men.
at leather queen (n.) under leather, adj.
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 33: The nellie male homosexual and the butch lesbian.
at nellie, adj.
[US] (con. 1965) E. Newton Mother Camp 84: ‘Where else in the world can you have a sodomy place with no sodomy law? And how many of you queens have got a French poodle?’ (A few laughs).
at poodle, n.
[US] (con. 1965) E. Newton Mother Camp 93: Carter says ‘Poppers?’ referring to a heart-stimulanting drug used to enhance orgasm.
at popper, n.2
[US] E. Newton Mother Camp 51: ‘Transy drag’ denotes not so much cheapness as deviance.
at transy, n.
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