Homosexuality postings
postings on homosexuality and anti-homosexuality; the gay voice; gay slang; labels for lgbt people; insults and slurs
for postings on gay sexual practices, sex toys, etc. and their names, see the Page on Language of Sex:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/lists/language-of-sex/
for postings on anti-gay slurs, see section 3 of the Slurs list:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/linguistics-notes/slurs/
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“The Other F Word”, in Out magazine, April 2003
http://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/the-other-f-word.pdf
2003 handout on the gay voice:
http://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/cornellhand.pdf
The handout for my presentation “Name that porn star” at the January 2005 meeting of the American Name Society
http://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/pornstar.pdf
The handout for my presentation “Ideal types: peacocks, chameleons, and centaurs” at the March 2005 SemFest (on categorization in general, and categorization of gay men in particular)
http://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/semfest.hand.pdf
The handout for my 2011 SemFest talk, “Categories and Labels: LGBPPTQQQEIOAAAF2/SGL …”, on labels in the domain of sexuality / sexual orientation, gender / sexual identity, and sexual practices, as used to construct an initialism for the entire domain
http://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/SemFest12.pdf
☛ AZ, 7/4/06: Avoiding the other F-word:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003319.html
baseball manager Ozzie Guillen on sportswriter Jay Mariotti: “What a piece of shit he is, fucking fag”
☛ AZ, 1/23/07: On the offensive language beat: Use vs. mention, avoidance:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004086.html
Isaiah Washington on Grey’s Anatomy co-star T.R. Knight and the word faggot
☛ AZ, 9/12/08: Lisping on the elevator:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=584
on the gay voice
☛ AZ, 10/17/09: Rude word:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1820
on twinks and other gay male “types”
☛ 11/8/09: Cheese or font? The sequel:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/11/08/cheese-or-font-the-sequel/
Gay or Eurotrash?
☛ 6/17/10: Late spring 2003:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/06/17/late-spring-2003/
among other things: Out magazine piece, XXX-rated collage show
☛ 6/27/10: That’s so gay:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/06/27/thats-so-gay/
Pansy Division
☛ 7/14/10: Dolls and action figures:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/14/dolls-and-action-figures/
Billy gay dolls (and Carlos and Tyson); Japanese figma figures, including one of gay pornstar Billy Herrington
☛ 7/15/10: Ken ‘n’ Joe: an item?:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/15/ken-n-joe-an-item/
twink Ken (of Barbie’s circle), butch GI Joe
☛ 7/15/10: On the run in 1972-74:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/15/on-the-run-in-1972-74/
Mick Jagger flirting with/taunting faggotry
☛ 7/19/10: The Truly Huge:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/19/the-truly-huge/
Act II: Dan Savage and the Truly Huge (on Brad the Bodybuilder)
☛ 7/27/10: Collage essays: from concealment to display:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/27/collage-essays-from-concealment-to-display/
in connection with 2005 exhibition of XXX-rated collages at the Stanford Humanities Center
☛ 8/24/10: Writing like a fag:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/08/24/writing-like-a-fag/
gay male writing style
☛ 8/28/10: Pansies:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/08/28/pansies/
slur ‘faggot’
☛ 11/12/10: Spear/Smear the Queer:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/11/12/spearsmear-the-queer/
the kids’ game
☛ 11/20/10: Bullying and rage:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/11/20/bullying-and-rage/
Jake Shears, bullied, told that being gay is a private matter
☛ 12/10/10: Beating masculinity into the boy:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/12/10/beating-masculinity-into-the-boy/
to avert homosexuality
☛ 1/23/11: The alphabet soup of sexuality and gender:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/the-alphabet-soup-of-sexuality-and-gender/
☛ 2/11/11: SemFest 12!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/02/11/semfest-12/
Categories and Labels: LGBPPTQQQEIOAAAF2/SGL …
☛ 2/23/11: Scapegoats:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/02/23/scapegoats/
gays as scapegoats
☛ 4/13/11: Were the World Mine:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/04/13/were-the-world-mine/
gay musical movie
☛ 5/1/11: -sauruses:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/05/01/sauruses/
fagasaurus, gayosaurus, homosaurus, queerosaurus, pansysaurus
☛ 5/25/11: Scent and masculinity:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/05/25/scent-and-masculinity/
masculine scents, feminine scents; Details magazine (for metrosexuals and gay men)
☛ 6/26/11: Cultural celebrations:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/06/26/cultural-celebrations/
Gay Pride events
☛ 1/25/12: The geek voice?:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/01/25/the-geek-voice/
☛ 1/31/12: fag food:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/01/31/fag-food/
Fagolosi breadsticks, fagottini pasta (and fagotto ‘bassoon’)
☛ 2/28/12: Trendsetting:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/02/28/trendsetting/
the gay voice and young women’s speech
☛ 4/16/12: Lexicon Valley:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/04/16/lexicon-valley/
podcast, including one on The development of faggot as a slur against male homosexuals, with commentary by Arnold Zwicky
☛ 5/3/12: flaming:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/05/03/flaming/
the adjective as applied to gay men
☛ 5/21/12: The queering of the metrosexual:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/05/21/the-queering-of-the-metrosexual/
metrosexual as a slur on masculinity (via its association with homosexuality); retrosexual
☛ 5/22/12: Geek days:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/05/22/geek-days/
on the geek voice and the gay voice
☛ 7/5/12: That’s so gay!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/07/05/thats-so-gay-2/
☛ 8/10/12: Hate:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/08/10/hate/
on homophobia
☛ 1/13/13: Putting the man in manicure:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/01/13/putting-the-man-in-manicure/
manicures as for women and “feminized” men (gays, metrosexuals)
☛ 4/8/13: fag bag:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/04/08/fag-bag/
in a variety of senses
☛ 4/22/13: Gay greens: the Big Two:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/04/22/gay-greens-the-big-two/
arugula, radicchio
☛ 6/27/14: queens:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/06/27/queens/
uses of queen
☛ 12/8/14: Inversion:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/08/inversion-2/
label invert etc.
☛ 5/16/15: Light in the loafers:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/16/light-in-the-loafers/
slang
☛ 6/11/15: Do I Sound Gay?:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/06/11/do-i-sound-gay/
on the Gay Voice
☛ 10/27/15: A quandary:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/27/a-quandary/
on being gay as a “private matter”; view that lgb people should be closeted
☛ 12/19/15: X queen:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/19/x-queen/
on X queen snowclonelets
☛ 1/2/16: The news for urinals:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/02/the-news-for-urinals/
homophobia in the bathroom; straight men anxious about gay men in restrooms, locker rooms, showers
☛ 1/12/16: The wages of heteronormativity:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/12/the-wages-of-heteronormativity/
☛ 1/27/16: Bruce Bruce Bruce:
slang poofter; Bruce as a gay name
☛ 1/28/16: Lower bangs higher:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/28/lower-bangs-higher/
man-man sex involving lower and higher (in class, social status, race/ethnicity/nationality)
☛ 1/28/16: Dean Phoenix, Dirk Yates, and curvature:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/28/dean-phoenix-dirk-yates-and-curvature/
attitudes of gay men towards straight men
☛ 1/29/16: Language and sexuality:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/29/language-and-sexuality/
announcement of Levon and Mendes, Language, Sexuality, and Power
☛ 1/30/16: Queen for a King:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/30/queen-for-a-king/
gayborhoods; gay slang: basket etc., gay uses of queen
☛ 2/2/16: The prissy voice:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/03/the-prissy-voice/
in the Great Gazoo, Dr. Zachary Smith in Lost in Space, film sissies
☛ 2/4/16: be gay/queer for:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/04/be-gayqueer-for/
with sexual element bleached
☛ 2/4/16: downe:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/04/downe/
young men for young men in certain Asian groups (especially in Northern California)
☛ 2/5/16: homophobia:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/05/homophobia/
☛ 2/16/16: Loving coules:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/16/loving-couples/
same-sex couples confronting gender conventions: embracing them, abandoning them, fragmenting them
☛ 2/17/16: A passion for pickles:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/17/a-passion-for-pickles/
pickle ‘penis’ in gay slang and gay slurs
☛ 2/21/16: Getting Go:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/21/getting-go/
gay-themed dramatic (and romantic) movie, involving a couple who are both physically and temperamentally contrasting; gay heteronormativity
☛ 3/1/16: News of the sexuality front: the Jocktion Marketplace:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/01/news-on-the-sexuality-front-the-jocktion-marketplace/
site offering used sports gear for sale to gay men; diverse codings of masculinity in the sellers
☛ 3/2/16: gaysex, mansex:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/02/briefly-gaysex-mansex/
labels for sexual acts between men
☛ 3/4/16: Trent Atkins, a great bottom;
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/04/trent-atkins-a-great-bottom/
ordering/demanding a fuck vs. asking/begging for one; sexual personas, in porn and real life
☛ 3/5/16: xmosexual:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/05/xmosexual
SRS on presentations of sexual personas, as bromosexual, promosexual, normosexual; recogmosexual, unrecogmosexual
☛ 3/12/16: Fruit loops:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/12/fruit-loops/
class-related dress practices (the Ivy League shirt, etc.); reactions to these as gay
☛ 3/18/16: Late for St. Patrick’s:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/18/late-for-st-patricks/
various presentations of sexual personas, notably by gay pornstar Harley Everett
☛ 3/20/16: Rainbow Peeps:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/20/rainbow-peeps/
presentations of gay people in celebrations
☛ 4/22/16: Morning name: ivermectin:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/22/morning-name-ivermectin/
public knowledge but sexual secrecy
☛ 4/22/16: More on open secrecy:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/22/more-on-open-secrecy/
☛ 4/24/16: Donelan:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/24/donelan/
gay male life of the 70s and 80s as depicted in Donelan’s cartoons
☛ 6/1/16: Nefarious morning name:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/01/nefarious-morning-name/
nefarious as applied to sodomy
☛ 6/2/16: Cartoony days:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/02/cartoony-days/
“regular” vs. “flagrant” gays
☛ 6/11/16: Schmitts Gay Beer:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/11/schmitts-gay-beer/
SNL skit with gay fantasy
☛ 6/21/16: Frank Viva:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/21/frank-viva/
New Yorker cover with men kissing
☛ 7/22/16: queer:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/07/22/queer/
queer vs. gay, inter alia
☛ 8/7/16: Ianto Jones:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/07/ianto-jones/
two types of male-male love: for men in general, for one particular man
☛ 8/25/16: November 25th, 2016:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/25/november-11th-2014/
#2 Haefeli cartoon with same-sex couple and their daughter
☛ 9/16/16: Going all the way gay with the X-Men:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/16/going-all-the-way-gay-with-the-x-men/
gay porn video parodying X-Men movies; Iceman as gay; mutants as analogues of lgbt people
☛ 11/15/16: The agony of homophobia:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/15/the-agony-of-homophobi/
homophobia and vocabulary for it
☛ 12/3/16: Camping it up:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/03/camping-it-up/
camp; camping it up; nelly men; to drop one’s beads, pearls, hatpins
☛ 12/24/16: This year’s most puzzling Christmas card:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/24/this-years-most-puzzling-christmas-card/
the Clone; the cruise of death
☛ 12/26/16: Chocolate Santa, and more:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/26/chocolate-santa-and-more/
drag; drag kings, drag queens
☛ 12/31/16: Surrealists, but especially Jess:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/31/surrealists-but-especially-jess/
Jess and poet Robert Duncan and their openness and activism
☛ 1/2/17: Queens & Cowboys:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/02/queens-cowboys/
gay rodeos
☛ 1/5/17: Gay men on the new subway walls:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/05/gay-men-on-the-new-subway-walls/
public displays of affection
☛ 1/8/17: The highly evolved fashion sense of faggots:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/08/the-highly-evolved-fashion-sense-of-faggots/
gay men as fashionable; Versace
☛ 1/18/17: From MeatMarket.com:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/18/from-meatmarket-com/
male prostitution
☛ 1/27/17: A kiss is just a kiss:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/27/a-kiss-is-just-a-kiss/
gay vs. straight, MSMs
☛ 2/2/17: QaF and its men:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/02/qaf-and-its-men/
the gay milieu of US Queer as Folk, gay male and lesbian cultures, gay clubs
☛ 2/10/17: Annals of adorable:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/10/annals-of-adorable/
kissing; nelly men; pleasantly gay men; straight-acting men, regular guys, NMGs, normative masculinity, macho gays, better half
☛ 2/14/17: One more VDay posting:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/14/one-more-vday-posting/
line between gay and straight
☛ 2/16/17: Flagrant figures:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/16/flagrant-figures/
the Clone type
☛ 2/17/17: dying:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/17/dying/
Liberace’s homosexuality
☛ 2/22/17: Playing for laughs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/22/playing-for-laughs/
“prissy” type of gay man; camping it up, campiness
☛ 2/25/17: The way we were:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/25/the-way-we-were/
on Rufus Gifford, former US ambassador to Denmark, openly gay and passionately activist
☛ 3/4/17: On the day:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/04/on-the-day/
Sydney Mardi Gras
☛ 3/24/17: The invention of the X job:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/24/the-invention-of-the-x-job/
mansex between straight men; negotiating sex only non-verbally
☛ 3/26/17: On the boulevard of broken dreams with Kip Noll:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/26/on-the-boulevard-of-broken-dreams-with-kip-noll/
the gay twink as a type; gay villages; cruising; gay strip clubs
☛ 3/27/17: JoBroButts, Hills Bros. coffee, and gaybros:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/27/jobrobutts-hills-bros-coffee-and-gaybros/
stereotypes of masculinity vs. stereotypes of queerness
☛ 3/27/17: Members Only: two moments:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/27/members-only-two-moments/
recognizably gay face
☛ 3/29/17: Another phenomenally bad idea:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/29/another-phenomenally-bad-idea/
cocksucking as a way of life, a mission
☛ 3/29/17: Three:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/29/three/
on-screen male-male kiss; three-ways
☛ 3/31/17: He bloomed in March:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/31/he-bloomed-in-march/
bandanna code
☛ 4/4/17: Quick, Bruce, the blat!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/04/quick-bruce-the-blat/
Bruce as a gay name; homosexuality and superheroes, homosexuality and vampires
☛ 4/16/17: Out gay male bands:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/16/out-gay-male-bands/
presentations of self, incl. genderqueer (vs. trans)
☛ 4/21/17: Seahorse on a stick, GBF, and the Describe-A-Muffin Task:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/21/seahorse-on-a-stick-gbf-and-the-describe-a-muffin-task/
Gay Best Friend
☛ 4/26/17: Saint Phalle:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/26/saint-phalle/
Genet’s worship of phallic masculinity
☛ 4/30/17: The Gay Sisters:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/30/the-gay-sisters/
gay in several senses
☛ 5/2/17: To Be Young, Gay, and Chinese-American
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/02/to-be-young-gay-and-chinese-american/
homosexuality and family in the poetry of Chen Chen
☛ 5/2/17: Semiotics of dress: the Age of High Gay:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/02/semiotics-of-dress-the-age-of-high-gay/
gay “types”; swish and macho gays
☛ 5/4/17: Closets:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/04/closets/
in the closet: Dominick Dunne, James Beard; critique of the closet
☛ 5/5/17: Four Days in May:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/05/four-days-in-may/
race/ethnicity and class in gay porn; pushy bottoms
☛ 5/11/17: Homophilatelic days:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/11/homophilatelic-days/
same-sex marriage in Canada
☛ 5/23/17: “Farley”, the dog said, “get me a slice”:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/23/farley-the-dog-said-get-me-a-slice/
bisexuality (and Farley Granger), partner
☛ 5/30/17: Puzzles, castles, and cake:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/30/puzzles-castles-and-cake/
the sexuality of King Ludwig of Bavaria
☛ 6/12/17: On the fierce fenininity of drag queens:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/12/on-the-fierce-femininity-of-drag-queens/
drag queens; gay voice; “feminine” personas
☛ 6/19/17: The thumbnail image, rainbows, and Pride:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/19/the-thumbnail-image-rainbows-and-pride/
Pride parades, Pride stickers
☛ 6/25/17: Animated cartoons, fan art, same-sex love:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/25/animated-cartoons-fan-art-same-sex-love/
same-sex couples in tv programs for kids
☛ 6/26/17: Put a sock on it in parade season:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/26/put-a-sock-on-it-in-parade-season/
pride parades; drag
☛ 6/30/17: In the dunes, in the dunes:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/30/in-the-dunes-in-the-dunes/
gay resorts: Fire Island
☛ 7/6/17: Coconuts and Trumpets:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/06/coconuts-and-trumpets/
gay bars and restaurants; motss.cons
☛ 7/6/17: Chast, Haefeli, Kaplan:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/06/chast-haefeli-kaplan/
gay couples, adoption
☛ 7/15/17: Wonder Bears!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/15/wonder-bears/
bear culture, drag
☛ 7/27/17: Musical synchronicity:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/27/musical-synchronicity/
bisexuality etc.
☛ 7/30/17: The queer quilt:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/30/the-queer-quilt/
LGBT organizations; Harry Hay
☛ 8/7/17: Young love:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/07/young-love/
young love
☛ 8/11/17: Billy the Berlin Barboy:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/11/billy-the-berlin-barboy/
gay dolls
☛ 8/27/17: Revisiting 6: Fire Island Pines:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/27/revisiting-6-fire-island-pines/
cruising and partying in Fire Island Pines, 1975-83
☛ 8/30/17: The Fountain of Angels in America:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/30/the-fountain-of-angels-in-america/
the Ramble in Central Park; AIDS
☛ 9/5/17: Obsolescent technologies and middle verbs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/05/obsolete-technologies-and-middle-verbs/
gay bars; Greek alluding to anal intercourse
☛ 9/6/17: Birthday notes:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/06/birthday-notes/
motss.cons
☛ 9/23/17: Bear chairs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/23/bear-chairs/
gay bears; the bear pride flag, the leather pride flag
☛ 10/3/17: Doorman of the underworld:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/03/doorman-of-the-underworld/
locales for secret mansex
☛ 10/5.17: He opened his mouth:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/05/he-opened-his-mouth/
gay voice and other evidences of fagginess
☛ 10/16/17: Revisiting 8: Rod Canyon
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/16/revisiting-8-rod-canyon/
porn names, drag names; P&A (penis and anus) material; lesbian kiss
