For Men Attracted to Men
- Abodi (African-American term)
- Angel
- Angelina
- Angel food
- Aunt Fancy
- Auntie Em
- Bag
- Badger
- Basha (Zanzibar African term for a
masculine, dominant gay male; also, any male authority figure;
also, the king in a deck of cards)
- Batty-boy
- B.B.
- Bear (A large, hairy, usually bearded
gay man, often bald, pot-bellied and middle-aged)
- Bog queen
- Boigl
- Boong-moll
- Boretto-man
- Boy toker
- Bruce
- Brunser
- Budli-budli
- Bufu
- Bufty
- Bulgar
- Buller
- Bunny boy
- Buttercup
- Butterfly boy
- Capon
- Cat
- Catamite (Specific meaning: teenage boy
penetrated by an older man)
- Catcher
- Cha-cha queen
- Charlie
- Chichi (Diminutive of
"chichifo" below)
- Chichifo (Mexican word for a hustler who
charges just enough money to be able to claim he's not gay
and is just doing it for the money)
- Church mouse
- Chubby Chaser
- Clear
- Clone
- Closet queen (Specific meaning: a man
who hides his attraction to men from others)
- Comasculator
- Cream puff
- Cuilón
- Culero
- Daffodil
- Daisy
- Daisy Duck
- Dandy
- Dash
- Ducky
- Dyna
- Effie
- Ephebophile (Ancient Greek word for
"lover of teenage boys")
- Faddle
- Faerie
- Fag
- Faggot
- Fagola
- Faigelah (Yiddish term literally meaning
"little bird"; implies shyness and
effeminacy)
- Fairy
- Fancy man
- Fantail
- Faygele
- Feigele
- Fembo
- Finocchio
- Flamer
- Flip
- Flit
- Flower
- Fluff
- Folle
- Foop
- Freak
- Frocio
- Friend of Dorothy's
- Ganymede
- Gaybert
- Gay caballero
- Gaycat
- Gayola
- Gear
- Ginger
- Ginger beer
- Goluboy
- Gonsel (See
"Gunzel")
- Greek
- Green and yellow fellow
- Gump
- Gunzel (Specific meaning: "a man
who sucks cocks")
- Gussie
- Hairy fairy
- Hairy Mary
- Hasie
- Haricot
- Hawk
- Hen
- Hen-hussy
- Hock
- Hollywood hustler
- Horse's hoof
- Huckle
- Hundert-funf-und-siebziger
- Indorser
- Iron
- Iron hoof
- Jessie
- Jesuit
- Jocker
- Joey
- John-and-John
- Jota (Mexican word for a man who dresses
as a woman and takes the receptive role in anal sex, sometimes
without telling his partners his gender)
- Joto (Mexican word for a man who takes
the receptive role in anal sex; his partner is a
"macho")
- Juicy fruit
- King Lear
- Knick-knack
- Lavender cowboy
- Lightfoot
- Light in the loafers
- Lollipop
- Lumberjack
- Macho (Mexican word for a man who takes
the insertive role in anal sex; his partner is a
"joto")
- Madge-cove
- Madge-cull
- Malkin
- Mama man
- Mampala
- Mandrake
- Man-identified man
- Manhole inspector
- Man-loving man
- Margery
- Maricon
- Mariposa
- Mariquita
- Mars bar
- May tag
- Mietje
- Milquetoast
- Min
- Mince
- Minny
- Mintie
- Moe
- Moffie
- Mole
- Moll
- Molly
- Molly-mop
- Morphodyte
- Mo-tho
- Moumoune
- Mouse
- Muscle Mary
- Nance
- Omi-polone (A term from
Polari, the language developed by gay men in
various parts of England during the era when gay sex was illegal,
in order to communicate with each other with less risk of being
caught. "Omi" means "man" and
"poloni" means "woman." Taken together in
this order, they mean "gay man.")
- Oscar
- Pansy
- Pato
- Pédale
- Pineapple
- Pitcher
- Pirujo
- Pixie
- Poggler
- Ponce
- Poof
- Poofter
- Poove
- Puff
- Punk
- Pure silk
- Quaggot
- Queen
- Quiff
- Quince
- Rabbit
- Rice queen
- Sarasa
- Schwuchtel
- Screaming queen
- Shandy
- Sheena
- Sheep-herder
- Shirtlifter
- Shunter
- Sis
- Sister
- Skippy
- So
- Soapy
- Sod
- Sodomite
- Soft
- Song-and-dance
- Spurge
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stuffer
- Sweet
- Sweetie
- Swish
- Tante
- Teapot
- Teen queen
- Tidda
- Tonk
- Town shift
- Triss
- Trizz
- Twink (Diminutive of
"twinkie")
- Twinkie (Refers to males of legal age
for same-sex sexual consent but who appear to be younger than
legal age)
- Turk
- Tutti-frutti
- Undercover man
- Uranian (English translation of
"Urning" as defined below)
- Urning (Invented by Karl Heinrich
Ulrichs in the mid-1800s; means "a man who loves men because
he has the soul of a woman")
- Usher
- Viado
- Waffle
- Walevi (Swahili word literally meaning
"drunken" but which, due to an African stereotype
associating same-sex sexuality with drunkenness, came to refer in
slang to male-male pederasty—which was traditionally the
primary form of same-sex sexuality allowed in most
Swahili-speaking cultures)
- Warmer Brüder
- Woofter
- Woolly-woofter
- Wonk
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- See also: For people attracted to the
same sex
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- For people attracted to men
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