This is a facinating list of the types of gay men recognised in the UK in 1962.

by Murderhands

47 comments
  1. Someone’s been crossing them off that list! They been busy🤪
    Lol

  2. Was that like a game of bingo or something? Check off all the ones they have met?

  3. OK, but my question is what are the crosses for?

    Is someone out there, or back then, trying to work their way through the list?

  4. Are we supposed to work through this as a checklist?

    Or go through it seeing which categories we fit into?

  5. Not gonna lie. “The War Queer” sounds metal as fuck.

  6. Where it says ‘friend’ I have visions of the daft bampot who compiled this list saying oooooo friend when he typed that.

  7. Just a young bisexual waiting to be drafted as the war queer!

  8. someone needs to expand this to ‘every type of person’

  9. Are the “X”s the gays they’ve already gone through?

  10. Hold on as a life long “self masturbator” I’m now officially LGBTQI+, or is it LGBTQIW

  11. Always makes me laugh that Fulham FC are nicknamed ‘the cottagers’

  12. Well if he looks like a quare and sounds like a quare, must be a quare

  13. So what was this list in relation to? Homosexuality in 1962 was, if I remember correctly, illegal and considered abnormal behaviour so one of those items being listed as “The ‘Abnormal’ Homosexual” is unexpected.

  14. Darn, I’m a woman so u can’t call bingo! But I’m sure I’ve payed a few of them

  15. I’m not even gay, but how do I get to fully sublimated? Sounds great.

  16. I think you can safely roll “the married man” in with “the demoralized married man” for gay men in 1962

  17. Reminds me on this response on University Challenge [https://youtu.be/47SnI5GGqY8?si=Q97LV4TcNelLXb2E]

  18. Why is a young (or heavily filtered) Gregg Wallace holding up this list?

  19. They missed off Cheesemongers, Cherry Pickers, Bob’s Own, The Emperor’s Chambermaids, and The Immortals.

  20. I used to be “the young bisexual”, now I’m just “the bisexual”

  21. That is some bucket list
    My late grandmother used to say “Friend of Dorothy”

  22. The nicknames Cheesemongers, Cherrypickers, Bob’s Own, The Emperor’s Chambermaids and The Immortals have been used to describe which groups of men?

  23. Feeling a bit boring, as a straight woman. This sounds fun!

  24. I want to open a pub called The Fully Sublimated Homosexual

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