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(ref. to 1945) in Walking After Midnight (1989) 51: This was known as Parlyaree [...] ‘bats’ – feet; ‘Martinis’ – hands.at bats, n.1
(ref. to 1945) in Walking After Midnight (1989) 51: This was known as Parlyaree [...] ‘bats’ – feet; ‘Martinis’ – hands. (ref. to 1970s) in Walking After Midnight (1989) 72: Using the word ‘gay’ was symbolic – I was casting off the word ‘homo’ .at gay, adj.
(ref. to 1945) in Walking After Midnight (1989) 49: If you admitted being homosexual in those days you were automatically released from the army. We called it ‘taking the veil,’ so I took the veil quite early.at take the veil (v.) under take, v.
in Walking After Midnight (1989) 169: I never recognized Earls Court as being a gay ghetto. I saw all these leather people coming into the Kentucky Fried Chicken where I worked [...] I thought they were motorcyclists.at leather, adj.
(ref. to 1960s) in Walking After Midnight (1989) 116: In Crawley in the sixties I was a mod [...] I used to wear Italian suits with cloth buttons and a ‘bum freezer’ jacket. [...] I also got my first pair of winkle-pickers – a bit late, but I got them.at bum freezer (n.) under bum, n.1
(ref. to 1960) in Walking After Midnight (1989) 87: Usually, if you met somebody who was gay and butch, they were very uptight, closety types.at closet, adj.
(ref. to 1970s) in Walking After Midnight (1989) 91: I will never forget watching the police raid Holland Walk in Kensington, which used to be a cruisy place at night.at cruisy (adj.) under cruise, v.
(ref. to 1950s) in Walking After Midnight (1989) 80: I wasn’t going to school [...] and then started going downtown to the cruising park where all the young queens (as we referred to each other) met [...] and we’d sit there and dish and camp.at dish, v.
(ref. to 1950s) in Walking After Midnight (1989) 80: If you’re ‘dishing’ somebody, you’re talking about them in a malicious way.at dish, v.
in Walking After Midnight (1989) 157: I don’t think in the long run it will make a hoot of difference.at hoot, n.2
in Walking After Midnight (1989) 169: She has the preconceived notion about limp wrists and screaming Nellies.at nellie, n.
(ref. to 1960) in Walking After Midnight (1989) 87: It was unusual for somebody to be fully ‘out’ and leading a gay lifestyle to be that butch.at out, adv.1
(ref. to 1950s) in Walking After Midnight (1989) 80: I wasn’t going to school [...] and then started going downtown to the cruising park where all the young queens (as we referred to each other) met [...] and we’d sit there and dish and camp.at queen, n.
in Walking After Midnight (1989) 169: She has the preconceived notion about limp wrists and screaming Nellies.at screaming, adj.
(ref. to 1960) in Walking After Midnight (1989) 88: [We] met some guy who was obviously cruising both of us [...] and we had a threesome.at threesome (n.) under three, n.
in Walking After Midnight (1989) 91: New York is fast and zippy and full of energy.at zippy, adj.
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