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Sumerian men's skirt ( Kaunakes ), ca. 3.000 BC. A modern utility kilt. Outside Western cultures, men's clothing commonly includes skirts and skirt-like garments; however, in the Americas and much of Europe, skirts are usually seen as feminine clothing and socially stigmatized for men and boys to wear, despite having done so for centuries. [1 ...
Pejorative terms for men (1 C, 28 P) Pages in category "Slang terms for men" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
LGBT slang, LGBT speak, queer slang, or gay slang is a set of English slang lexicon used predominantly among LGBTQ+ people. It has been used in various languages since the early 20th century as a means by which members of the LGBTQ+ community identify themselves and speak in code with brevity and speed to others.
Butch and femme lesbian genders were only starting to become apparent in the 1940s, since it started to become common to allow women to enter bars without men. In the 1940s in the U.S., most butch women had to wear conventionally feminine dress in order to hold down jobs, donning their starched shirts and ties only on weekends to go to bars or ...
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Bears at the 2009 Marcha Gay in Mexico City. In the mid-1980s, gay men in the San Francisco Bay Area who called themselves "bears" met informally at Bear Hug (sex) parties and via the newly emerging Internet. The term "bear" was popularized by Richard Bulger, who, along with his then-partner Chris Nelson (1960–2006), founded Bear Magazine in ...
Poppy, a nickname used from childhood on. Bill Clinton. Bill, itself short for his first name, William. Bubba, common nickname for males in the Southern U.S. The Comeback Kid, coined by press after strong second place showing in 1992 New Hampshire primary, following polling slump.
Lesbian feminism. Butch is a lesbian who exhibits a masculine identity or gender presentation. [1] [2] Since the lesbian subculture of 1940s America, "butch" has been present as a way for lesbians to circumvent traditional gender roles of women in society and distinguish their masculine attributes and characteristics from feminine women.