Code Words For “Gay” In Classic Films

copperbadge:

sorrynotsorrybi:

hybridic:

hubblegleeflower:

Has a silk bathrobe

Avowed bachelor

Wears a hat of someone else’s choosing

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 Here’s the list: 

• Curious
• Extraordinary
• Eccentric
• Wears a hat of someone else’s choosing
• Inconsistent
• A sunset lover
• Smooth elbows
• A man with specific mannerisms
• Sleeps diagonally
• A perplexment
• Rides the carousel
• An evening botanist
• Classically athletic
• Fraternally-minded
• Wears a light wristwatch
• Gives a careful handshake
• Gives too much change for a dollar
• A fluent swimmer
• A keen-eyed birdwatcher
• Fond of his mother
• Elegant
• Built on an uncertain foundation
• Fluttersome
• A real jackdaw
• Avowed bachelor
• A gentleman of the piers
• Born with the caul
• Limber
• An aesthete
• In the way of uncles
• He throws a party with an open guest list
• Son of the moon
• A boy from Eton
• Always rings twice
• Has a silk bathrobe
• Not quite up-to-code
• He hitchhikes instead of taking the bus
• Stays ahead of the game
• A skillful mountain climber
• Salutes another flag
• An upside-down chimney-sweep

tag yourself I’m “a perplexment”

Years ago I once mentioned to a coworker at a theatre where I was interning that my boss was bi (he was out, I wasn’t doing anything I shouldn’t) and she said “Oh! He sometimes shops at the other market!” 

I almost fell over laughing at the expression, and I reported the conversation to my mum later. She picked it up and would joke about it for like, YEARS after. It became a running joke in our family, the expression “He shops at the other market.”  

This ended up being REALLY funny about five years later when we were trying to find a grocery store on a family road trip and ended up buying what we needed from a grocery store with a big sign out front reading BI-MART. We pulled into the parking lot and I leaned over to my mother and said, “This is the other market he shops at.”

OK someone write me a fic where Steve uses some of these in conversation and nobody figures it out until someone (Natasha?) has a Classic Movies marathon. (you’re fond of your mother? um, me too?  I ought to warn you that hitchhiking isn’t as safe as it used to be, by the way.  OH, THE POSSIBILITIES FOR CONVERSATIONAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS.)

Code Words For “Gay” In Classic Films