1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 99: ‘You see the earring? Left side! And the handkerchief? All on the left side, man! That means top-man, man. Top!’ ‘Some guys go both ways, stud. No offense.’.at go both ways (v.) under both ways, adj.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 26: The dark-print handkerchief displayed like a banner in his back pocket, the heavy ring of keys, the tiny silver earring — all worn on his left side — proclaim his role as a dominant man in ‘heavy sex,’ a good ‘top-man,’ one of the best. His ‘bottom-men’ must be equally masculine.at bottom, n.3
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 56: Gatherings brightened or rendered even more desolating by an occasional, quite often discreetly bought, ‘boy’.at boy, n.2
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 41: Sometimes he will even lunge into campiness, flirt with outlawed poses — limp wrist, thrust hip.at camp, n.2
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 36: Chas separated himself from the two other men — to go, he said, fondling it, to ‘charge up’ his cock in one of the warehouses where men were lingering.at charge, v.1
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 117: Well fuckeroo if that wasn’t a tribute to closetry.at closetry (n.) under closet, adj.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 11: The rot-tinged scent of ‘poppers’ will hover like cummy incense.at cummy (adj.) under cum, n.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 170: [of a man] Lashing, they invoke the harshest curse in the Rushes — effeminacy — while personifying it in cruel paradox: ‘Cunt!’.at cunt, n.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 203: The tough guards blocking out ‘undesirables’ — ‘Strict Dress Code No Fats Femmes Over35s’.at fat, n.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 184: Then fuck you — you’re as fucked as Chas in your own way, as fucked as my brother in his.at fucked, adj.1
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 17: It is the most popular of the ‘heavy cruising’ bars that pock the decaying area.at heavy cruising (n.) under heavy, adj.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 26: The dark-print handkerchief displayed like a banner in his back pocket, the heavy ring of keys, the tiny silver earring — all worn on his left side — proclaim his role as a dominant man in ‘heavy sex,’ a good ‘top-man,’ one of the best.at heavy, adj.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 101: I’m a straight black stud, hung like a fuckin horse.at hung like a horse under hung, adj.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 43: A ‘gorgeous hunk’ — magnificently exaggerated beyond any possibility of reality.at hunk, n.1
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 15: Although this is not a hustling area, he is obviously bartering for sexmoney with an older man.at hustling, n.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 113: As he passes by the leatherman brushes Endore’s hand with gloved knuckles.at leather boy (n.) under leather, adj.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 30: (in homosexual context) All he can see is the illumined flesh — ‘meat, prime meat,’ he loves to call it.at meat, n.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 28: He disarmed a ‘queer-basher’ ready to lash with a chain at a cowring man.at queer-basher (n.) under queer, n.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 37: When he can’t get the real ones [i.e. amyl nitrite] he settles for one of the liquid substitutes of butyl nitrite more readily available — Rush. Bullet.at rush, n.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 112: Maybe some day you’ll be slumming Lyndy, and someone will mistake you for ...at slum, v.3
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 26: Many of the men here are looking for — he sneers — ‘just plain fuckin and suckin’’.at sucking, n.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 48: I did everything [...] the three-ways, the four-ways — not enough!at three-way, n.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 26: The dark-print handkerchief displayed like a banner in his back pocket, the heavy ring of keys, the tiny silver earring — all worn on his left side — proclaim his role as a dominant man in ‘heavy sex,’ a good ‘top-man,’ one of the best.at top man (n.) under top, adj.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 170: [of a man] You fucking bitch! You’re nothing but a wasted tramp, give up!at tramp, n.
1979 J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 116: The perennial thought that one of the ‘cute boys’ might turn out to be ‘vice.’.at vice, n.