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The Homosexual in America choose

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[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 112: I was invited to a gay bar [...] while there, a companion to whom I was talking excused himself, saying that he had to go to the advertising club.
at advertising club (n.) under advertise, v.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 112: Most of the words [in Amer. Dict. of Sl.] were of infrequent usage: agfay, lavender boy, mason, nola, queervert.
at agfay, n.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 112: The bisexual companion is ambisextrous.
at ambisextrous, adj.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 112: The passive [pederast] is defined by no less than sixty-eight different words or phrases, from apple-pie to works.
at apple pie, n.2
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 113: A gay person will say [...] He’s a grand guy – and as queer as a three-dollar bill.
at ...a three-dollar bill under queer as..., adj.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 112: The obvious crotch is the basket, or sometimes the canasta.
at basket, n.1
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 113: A camp is also a bitch.
at bitch, n.1
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 104: The cantargot includes such terms for the Lesbian as dike (or dyke), stud, and bull (more frequently bull-dagger).
at bull-dagger (n.) under bull, n.1
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 104: The cantargot includes such terms for the Lesbian as dike (or dyke), stud, and bull (more frequently bull-dagger).
at bull, n.1
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 113: A camp is also a bitch; but change the vowel, and one has the antonym, a butch.
at butch, n.1
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 106: The homosexual, in inner-group language, is likely to call a heterosexual girl a fish, and a man who is attracted only to women is butch, but neither of these words is considered derogatory.
at butch, adj.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 112: The obvious crotch is the basket, or sometimes the canasta.
at canasta, n.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 129: O, I just don’t know what I’m going to wear to the drag!
at drag, n.1
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 106: The homosexual, in inner-group language, is likely to call a heterosexual girl a fish.
at fish, n.1
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 104: Best known among these words are fairy [...] queen (an important variation being fish-queen).
at fish queen, n.1
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 104: Best known among these words are fairy [...] freak.
at freak, n.1
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 105: He Frenches or she likes to French will be said.
at French, v.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 105: Certain forms of homosexual practices, and for that matter of heterosexual indulgences, namely fellatio and cunnilingus, are called in America French love.
at French love (n.) under French, adj.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 211: A psychiatrist of my acquaintance recently [...] discussed the adjustment to be found in what he termed a ‘front marriage’.
at front marriage (n.) under front, adj.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 105: A homosexual is sometimes called a Greek, or more often a Greek lover.
at Greek, n.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 105: A homosexual is sometimes called a Greek [...] and homosexual friendship called Greek love.
at Greek love (n.) under Greek, adj.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 123: ‘Look what’s coming!’ ‘Isn’t it gorgeous!’.
at it, n.1
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 112: A strong distinction between the active and passive pederast; for former, such words as daddy, joker, and wolf are used.
at joker, n.1
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 112: Most of the words [in Amer. Dict. of Slang] were of infrequent usage: agfay, lavender boy, mason, nola, queervert.
at lavender boy (n.) under lavender, adj.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 90: The estimate will seem conservative rather than large to those of us who are ‘in the life’.
at life, n.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 104: Best known among these words are fairy [...] Mary, sissy or sis.
at Mary, n.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 112: Most of the words [in Amer. Dict. of Slang] were of infrequent usage: agfay, lavender boy, mason, nola, queervert.
at mason, n.3
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 112: The passive pederast, caught in the act, has his jeans at half mast.
at (at) half-mast (adv.) under mast, n.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 112: Most of the words [in Amer. Dict. of Slang] were of infrequent usage: agfay, lavender boy, mason, nola, queervert.
at nola, n.
[US] D.W. Cory Homosexual in America 142: It would have been a simple thing for these men to ‘pass’.
at pass, v.
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