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Coming Out Under Fire choose

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[US] ‘Private Maxie Reporting’ in A. Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire (1990) 91: We’ve got glamor and that’s no lie; / Can’t you tell when we swish by? / Isn’t it campy? Isn’t it campy?
at campy, adj.
[US] ‘Private Maxie Reporting’ in A. Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire (1990) 91: We’ve got glamor and that’s no lie; / Can’t you tell when we swish by? / Isn’t it campy? Isn’t it campy?
at swish, v.1
[US] (ref. to 1945) A. Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire 56: There were all these dykes sitting around with their feet up on the table in fatigues with Li’l Abner boots.
at l’il abners, n.
[US] (ref. to 1944) A. Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire 86: A policeman was Alice Blue Gown.
at Alice (Blue Gown), n.
[US] (ref. to 1944) A. Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire 55: Ben Small recalled [...] gay trainees ‘kind of migrated to other gays in the barracks, and sometimes it would be referred to as the “fruit corner” or the “fruit salad”’.
at fruit salad, n.2
[US] (ref. to 1944) A. Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire 55: Ben Small recalled [...] gay trainees ‘kind of migrated to other gays in the barracks, and sometimes it would be referred to as the “fruit corner” or the “fruit salad”’.
at fruit stand (n.) under fruit, n.
[US] (ref. to 1944) A. Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire 61: Soldier slang gave these men feminine nicknames such as [...] Gertrude.
at Gertie, n.
[US] (ref. to 1944) A. Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire 86: A flaming queen was a mother superior.
at mother superior, n.1
[US] (ref. to 1944) A. Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire 86: Sailors were seafood.
at seafood (n.) under sea, n.
[US] (ref. to 1944) A. Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire 86: A gay man in jail was a sister in distress.
at sister, n.
[US] (ref. to 1943) A. Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire 103: He found his own clique of eight gay GIs who gathered ‘several times a week in one of the local ‘souse huts’.
at souse, v.
[US] (ref. to 1944) A. Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire 101: ‘We all played cards together,’ he recalled. The crowd was ‘just swishy, giddy, gay’.
at swishy, adj.
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