Chum gay
LGBTQIA+ Slurs and Slang
bog queen
Synonyms: Bathsheba (composition between bathroom and Sheba to produce a name reminiscent of the Queen of Sheba), Ghost (50s, ghost, because they wander the corridors of the bathroom).
Let’s Have A Chum Sesh!
In an effort to dispel the doom and gloom surrounding the subject in today’s media, Dylan Jones takes a less negative stance on the bond between drugs and lgbtq+ men
Debates about chem-seshes, chillouts and gay men’s attitude towards drugs are certainly the topic du-jour in the media right now. Everyone from Dazed to the BBC have covered it, with viewpoints varying from the cautiously understanding and reasonably informed to the unashamedly judgemental and woefully misinformed.
There’s no shortage of angles either: gay men take drugs because they hate themselves; gay men take drugs because they’re an inferior subspecies, hold no imagination, and it’s the only way they can have fun; male lover men take drugs because of an inherent propensity towards hedonism; gay men take drugs because of Madonna (that one might be partly true to be fair, I imply Confessions, WHAT a poppers o’ clock album).
The dialogue on it has grow RELENTLESS to the aim of saturation. Everyone’s talked about it so much that it has actually started to resemble one of those conversations you end up having on drugs at a chillout: rambling, repetitive and with no ultimate co
Green’s Dictionary of Slang
chumn.
alsochummie, chummy[17C SE chum, one who lodges in the equal college rooms. Presumably f. chamber, poss. abbr. chamber-fellow or chamber-mate, although no proof has been discovered; NB ‘Sl. Terms & the Gypsy Tongue’ in Baily’s Mag. Nov. 1871 suggests origin in Rom. tschummer / Hindi chuma, a kiss ]1. (alsochumbuddy) a close friend, a room-mate [mid-19C+ use is SE, although Hotten (1859) includes it since it is ‘in such frequent use with the bring down orders that it demanded a place in this glossary’].
T. CreechTheocritus Idyllium X 58: [Dedication] To my chum Mr. Hody of Wadham College. | |
B.E.Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Chum, a Chamber-fellow, or constant Companion. | |
N. Ward ‘A Step to Stir-Bitch-Fair’ Writings (1704) 269: A Scholar [...] whisper’d to his Chamber-Fellow, Chum, Chum, tho’ I have the Word of God in my Mouth, to narrate thee the Truth on’t, I have a Lyn Devil in my Breeches. | |
Spectator 5 Nov. n.p.: I shall here present my reader [...] with a letter written by new gentleman of the university to his friend [...] ‘Dear Chum’... | |
K. O’HaraTom Thumb II iv: Yet thus bereft, / Not one ch |