Synonym for gay slang
That's gay [synonym]
... finding alternatives for 'that's gay' could be useful in diminishing the phrase's prevalence...
Campy is not precise enough... by definition: "providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities." Using the term 'that is gay' in my context denotes something that isn't amusing or laughable, but strange in an uncomfortable way, and perhaps slightly prosaic.
ewie said:
How about whack? (Just a untamed guess.)
By the way, are you looking for a word that would be comprehensible to all English speakers, just Americans, just Californians ... ?Click to expand...
'Whack' is definitely suitable in the 'that sucks' context (eg. a friend tells you about their misfortune, and you reply with 'that's gay').
As far as comprehension, I was initially thinking more along the lines of how an academic writer would convey the identical meaning (using lexicon with higher dignity), but I predict any conventional synonyms are welcome.
LGBTQIA+ Slurs and Slang
bog queen
Synonyms: Bathsheba (composition between bathroom and Sheba to create a name reminiscent of the Queen of Sheba), Ghost (50s, ghost, because they wander the corridors of the bathroom).
List of Queer terms
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Abro (sexual and romantic)
A pos used to explain people who contain a fluid sexual and/or romantic orientation which changes over time, or the course of their life. They may use different terms to describe themselves over time.
Ace
An umbrella term used specifically to describe a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of sexual attraction. This encompasses asexual people as adequately as those who identify as demisexual and grey-sexual. Ace people who life romantic attraction or occasional sexual attraction might also utilize terms such as gay, bi, sapphic, straight and gay in conjunction with asexual to illustrate the direction of their romantic or sexual attraction.
Ace and aro/ace and aro spectrum
Umbrella terms used to describe the wide group of people who encounter a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of idealistic and/or sexual attraction, including a lack of attraction. People who identify under these umbrella terms may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms, including, but not limited to, asexual, ace, aromantic, aro, demi, grey, and abro. People may also apply terms such as gay,
Homosexual Terms in 18th-century Dictionaries
NOTE: In the following selection of definitions from dictionaries published during the eighteenth century, the most ordinary words relating to homosexuality are "sodomy" and "buggery", which of course is no surprise. I assess we can safely presume that "buggery" is widely understood as meaning anal intercourse between males, but the word "sodomy" seems to have a rather broader meaning, i.e. sex of any sort between males. Indeed, in Cocker's English dictionary of 1704 sodomy is defined simply as "male venery", which is really as abstract as the modern synonym "male homosexuality". Incidentally, the word "catamite" is sometimes just a synonym for "sodomite", and was not always restricted to one who submits to sodomy. There are also some other surprises. For example, the word "molly" appeared in a Swedish/English dictionary in 1762, where it is simply defined as a sodomite, a buggerer, without effeminate connotations. "Molly" also appeared in a French/English dictionary in 1767, as well as in several slang (or "cant") dictionaries, along with other slang terms such as "madge". It is also interesting to see the less familiar ter