GAY SLANG DICTIONARY
By Robert Scott
Copyright © 1989 © 1994 © 1998 © 1999 All rights reserved. This book, or parts therof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission, except in the case of brief quotations, embodied in critical articles, or reviews, or used by non profit educational purposes.
This work is the creation of an independent gay writer-researcher, with no funding, unaffiliated with academic institutions. I say this not by way of apology, but simply as explanation. By 1989 I had over 5000 entries, for the dictionary so, in began late in 1989, I  decided that this  was just a dictionary, and ended the first addition, at 4 am 12-20 1994 publishing the  Dictionary to the web. copyright 1994 all rights reserved. The book is rough at the edges, but it is made from a need I have to know all that is Gay. This book has became my on going hobby. I am always out collecting Gay slang, so I am quite interested in having the reader of this book send in slang. This book will be up dated on, a on going bases. The next major update, will include gay and lesbian, people that have made a contribution to our history. With historical date.

INTRODUCTION

I began gathering information for this work 33 years ago [1972] when I first, came out into the gay community.  I first came out to family, in 1964, than  came out publicly, in, Tacoma Washington in 1971, I was Looking for love, and looking for a sense of who I was, where I came from, and why I existed as a gay man. I found a sense of community, and was finding the answer to those questions, in bars, discos and gay bathhouses. This was before books on gay subject started to appear. I soon developed, a love for gay history. I found a sense of power and purpose in these early years, through our history. I found love and heartbreak, in our history. I never could find anyone, or books that could tell me, the hole story of myself, and the great people of our past. We as a people also had a language of our own. In the early 1980s, I started working on a book, the title was going to be Scott international Gay Almanac, with 282 chapters, and chapter 48 was title dictionary of Gay slang. At about that time there was, a new awakening of literature, and information was changing almost daily, outdated much of my Almanac before I could go to press with it. By 1989 I had over 5000 entries, for the dictionary. at that point I could see the slang dictionary becoming a book on its own.

Gay slang is constantly evolving, with new words being added frequently, and for these reasons, we should never, forget the fabulous terms of today, and of days gone by, in the years of the past.

GAY SLANG DICTIONARY was the first to be posted to the Internet, earnings it a place in our gay history. GAY SLANG DICTIONARY is both a piece of your history, and hopefully a source of amusement. This dictionary will always be my on going project. I am pleased to see it become a source for others, that are interested in our heritage of language.

Gay slang may be offensive and vulgar. Most of the vocabulary of this Dictionary comes from a adults, Environment such as gay nightclubs, gay bathhouses, and other places where gay and lesbians meet socially. Not all the words listed here are gay slang some words have come from medical terms, gay slang transformed to popular English used in every day life, other sources are drug slang , juvinile slang, and a few others that have had impact on the gay community. Some terms are very derrogatory coming from a homophobic point of view. People listed here in this dictionary have made a significant impact on modern and past gay and lesbian culture.

Due to the adult content presented in this dictionary. Note parents are advised this Dictionary contains sexually explicit language, that is not suitable for young children................... so please don't proceed if you are easily offended.

I do not apologise for any offence taken from the following dictionary. you have been advised of the sexually explicit, racist, sexist and prejudicial expressions. To omit or censor this language, would limit telling, the whole story, of gay and lesbian history, and that would present a false impression of current and past linguistics.
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Gay Slang Note: GS1 Gay/Lesbian Almanac By Jonathan Ned Katz ©1983 Hsrper & Row, Publishers page 16
GS2 Gay/Lesbian Almanac By Jonathan Ned Katz ©1983 Hsrper & Row, Publishers page 16 GS3- The Gay Past A Collection of Historical Essays: Edited by Salvatore J. Licata; Robert P. Petersen ©1985 page 148
Copyright © 1994-Copyright © 1998 ROBERT OWEN SCOTT, JR 1994. All rights reserved. 

This dictionary began as Robert Scott's Gay Slang Dictionary. By Robert Owen Scott, Jr. Copyright © 1994. I has granted permission to use my work for non profit educational purposes. Gay slang is constantly evolving, and for these reasons, lest we forget the fabulous terms of yesteryear, the Dictionary of Gay Slang is both a piece of history and a source of amusement.

Rebecca's Dictionary of Queer Slang and Culture A Brief Dictionary of Queer Slang and Culture ©Rebecca Scott, 1997 This dictionary may be copied in whole or in part only if credit is given http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Stonewall/4219/

Pink UK's Gay Slang Dictionary A Dictionary of Slang' is a reference guide to the many slang expressions heard in the U.K.The gay scene has for many years proffered an immense amount of slang, but with 'straight' society's less prejudiced views and acceptance of homosexuality openly mixed socialising is revealing a once private and discreet language. http://www.pinkuk.com/interests/slang.asp

Polari (also seen as 'Palare') is a gay slang language, which has now almost died out. It was more common in the 1960's when gays had more need of a private slang. http://www.chris-d.net/polari/

Deviants Dictionary, a project that aims eventually to provide a comprehensive and interactive on-line encyclopaedic dictionary of BDSM-related terms, an 'encyclopervia' of the Net. http://www.queernet.org/deviant/index.html

Queer Slang in the Gay 90's This QUEER Slang Guide was started with information gathered in part from the Alyson Almanac, and used with permission. http://www.gaymart.com/6fun/slang.html

Aaron's Dictionary of Gay Terms    A searched through a collection of ancient gay documents has uncovered gay terms from another era - many surprisingly still in common usage. http://www.aaronsgayinfo.com/Fterms.html

Adult Sexual Health Terms Advisor (Gay Terms) glossary of Queer terms and symbols http://www.number-one-adult-sexual-health-terms-advisor.com/queerterms.htm

LGB Slang Guide (Exeter University) http://gosh.ex.ac.uk/societies/lgb/slang.htm

Matt & Andrej Koymasky GLTB Slang Dictionary These slang terms were collected from a variety of sources. http://andrejkoymasky.com/lou/dic/dic00.html

Dictionary of Gay Slang and Historical Terms http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/5393/dictionary.html

Surfing for Slang a Link Bank  http://www.spraakservice.net/slangportal/sexual.htm

Wei Lee, Dictionary of Gay Slang]  

Gay Talk: By Bruce Rodgers ©1972
casebook: Homophile By Robert Leslie © 1966
The Gay Almanca ©1996
Homoaffectionalism By Paul D. Hardman ©1993
The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality: Garland Publishing ©1990

"The Queens' Vernacular, A Gay Lexicon" by Bruce Rodgers, (Straight Arrow books 1972, ISBN 0 87932 026 5)
reprinted as
"Gay talk, a (sometimes outrageous) dictionary of gay slang" by Bruce Rodgers, (Paragon 1979, ISBN 0 399 50392 7)
dictionary of gay slang from all over the world, which describes the origins of words.

BCLS Homework Page Dictionaries
 http://www.baycountylibrary.org/TeenPage/dictionaries.htm
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The International Stoner Slang Dictionary
 http://www.warehouse.net/wwweed/books/Slang/index.html
 The International Stoner Slang Dictionary The Internet allows millions of people to communicate without the cultural boundaries imposed by the physical world.

History: Gay Historical Contributors to our Heritage

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Note that mainstream gay and lesbian, view men in this group as child molesters, and distance himself from this group