Wednesday, July 04, 2007

LGBT vocab - English version

Nakuha ko ito sa isang Ygroup. I'd loooove to know the Pinoy equivalent! Siguradong mas nakaka-tawa yun na di hamak.

Fauxmos:* Straight guys who act gayer than Kylie on a Mardi Gras float. It's easy to spot a fauxmo in their natural environment; the fringe is perfectly coiffed, they've spent more money on their outfits than anyone else in the club and they cleverly court the attention of both sexes. Just watch out though, fauxmos may like a bit of flirting but there is a definite faux in
their mo.

*Heteroflexible: * Guys who swing both ways. After all, a hole is a hole, right? A heteroflexible' s hero is Fall Out Boy's lead singer Pete Wentz,**who told *Blender* magazine that he likes making out with boys just as much as girls. "Anybody above the waist is fair game." But as Lisa Kudrow put it in *The Opposite of Sex*, "just because you've been to a bar mitzvah once, doesn't
make you Jewish."

*Obeast:* Also known as an *girlilla*. You don't want to run into of these in a dark alley on a stormy night. Large, slow-moving and with hair sprouting out of every orifice (yes, we mean every), throw the wrong glance at a lesbian obeast at a bar and you can kiss goodbye ever reaching your
next birthday.

*Gayhound:* A guy that excels at the art of sniffing out other gay guys. Is it in the eyes? The handshake? The mythical sixth sense? Whatever it is, some people profess to be able to pick up the scent of another gay or lesbian like a sniffer dog rummaging through the crowd at a dance party.
We've all got a bit of a gayhound in us, the art is learning how to refine
it so you don't accidentally pick out a fauxmo. A heteroflexible will do
just fine.

*Bromance:* When two straight guys do date-like activities together. Hanging out and going to the movies, eating out at restaurants and shopping for clothes together are perfect examples of two guys who are having a bromance with each other. There's a huge amount of unspoken admiration going on here. But it's kept above board, right fellas?

*Girlfew:* A curfew imposed by your lesbian girlfriend on exactly when you have to be home while they stay in and mind the cats.

*Webutation: * Your online reputation. Word travels quickly online, especially if your life involves sitting on internet dating sites all night trawling through profiles like supermarket aisles. It doesn't take long before your profile name, and your picture, gathers a webutation. Remember,
page impressions last in the online world.

*Mangina:* Um, well, how do we put this one delicately? Take the words man and vagina and use your imagination.

*Fagabond:* An unsettled gay man who moves around a lot, never quite staying in one place for too long. Aussie fagabonds are often found in London or Europe, killing a few years on the party scene as an excuse to putting off thinking about what they're going to do with their life. They live a hobo existence (note the difference from homo) and travel from hotel to bar to
club, never quite feeling like they're settled.

*Guyliner:* Eyeliner for boys worn by fauxmos, emos, twinks and goth boys who haven't yet received the memo that emo is the new goth.

*Dykon:* Lesbian icons are suddenly back in the news again in Australia after Pink's record-breaking concert series. Complete with suited up female dancers, girl-on-girl action and bondage scenes a-plenty, she proved that the Pink dollar flows just as freely from the girls as it does from the
boys.

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