List of LGBT-related slang terms

This is a list of slang terms used for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people.

For lesbians

 * Bean flicker – "Likening the clitoris to a bean"
 * Butch, butch-broad
 * Carpet muncher (or rug muncher)
 * Celesbian
 * Dyke (variations: bull dyke, bull dagger (alternatively bulldagger, bulldicker, from 1920s black American slang))
 * Diesel dyke
 * Drag dyke
 * Gillette Blade, a 1950s era term for bisexual women, whose sexuality cut both ways
 * Kiki, a term used primarily from the 1940s until the 1960s to indicate a lesbian who was not butch or femme and did not have a preference for either butch or femme partners
 * Kitty puncher or pussy puncher with both kitty and pussy referring to a woman's vagina and puncher a variation on various derogatory terms for gay men like donut puncher et al.
 * Lezzie/Lesbo/Leso/Les/Leb (also lezzer/lesser) (abbreviation for lesbian)
 * Muff Diver
 * The Game of Flats (an 18th-century English term for sex between women)
 * Todger dodger, todger meaning penis

For gay men

 * Anal assassin (United Kingdom) or anal astronaut
 * Arse bandit
 * Ass bandit
 * Back door bandit
 * Backgammon player (late 18th-century Britain)
 * Batty boy (alternatively botty boy), also batty man
 * Bear
 * Bent, bentshot or bender
 * Bone smuggler
 * Brownie king or brown piper
 * Bufter, bufty (mainly Scottish) or booty buffer
 * Bugger (from Buggery)
 * Bum bandit, butt bandit, or bun bandit
 * Bum boy or bum chum, also bum robber
 * Bum-driller
 * Bumhole engineer
 * Butt pirate, butt boy, butt rider, butt pilot, or butt rustler
 * Charlie (rhyming slang for Charlie Ronce which rhymes with ponce)
 * Chi chi man (Jamaica and the Caribbean)
 * Chutney ferret
 * Cockstruction worker (referring to a gay man who is a construction worker)
 * Cock jockey
 * Cock knocker, cockknocker and cocknocker
 * Cockpipe cosmonaut
 * Crafty butcher
 * Daffodil or "daffy", a derogatory term
 * Donut puncher/muncher
 * Faggot, Fag
 * Fairy (common and acceptable for part of the 20th century)
 * Finocchio (from Italy, meaning fennel)
 * Flamer
 * Flit
 * Flower
 * Friend of Franky
 * Friend of Dorothy
 * Fruit (also fruit loop, fruit packer, butt fruit)
 * Fudge packer
 * Gaysian, referring to a gay Asian
 * Gym Bunny, often referring to a gay man who obsessively works out at the gym.
 * Harry hoofter, rhyming slang of poofter
 * Homo
 * Iron (hoof) or iron hoofter (rhyming slang for poof)
 * Jobby jabber (mainly Scottish with jobby referring to excrement)
 * Knob jockey
 * Light in the loafers
 * Light in the pants
 * Light in the fedora
 * Limp wristed
 * Marmite miner
 * Meat Masseuse
 * Mary
 * Muscle Mary (see Gym Bunny)
 * Nancy or nancy boy, girlyboy or nellie
 * Oklahomo
 * Pansy
 * Payaso
 * Pillow biter or mattress muncher, referring to anal sex when one partner is face-down often into a pillow
 * Poof (variations include: poofter, pouf, poove, pooftah, pooff, puff) (U.K, Australia, New Zealand, California)
 * Queen, princess and variations
 * Bean queen (also taco queen or Salsa queen), gay man attracted to Hispanic men
 * Brownie queen, obsolete slang for gay man interested in anal sex (used by men who disliked anal sex)
 * Chicken queen, older gay man interested in younger or younger appearing men
 * Curry queen, gay man attracted to Asian-Indian gay men
 * Dinge queen, gay man attracted to black gay men (offensive use of "dinge" meaning black)
 * Drag queen, gay man into cross-dressing for performance
 * Grey queen, a gay person who works for the financial services industry (this term originates from the fact that in the 1950s, people who worked in this profession often wore grey flannel suits).
 * Gym queen, gay man given to athletic development
 * Pissy queen, gay man perceived as fussy
 * Potato queen, gay Asian man attracted mainly to white men.
 * Rice queen, gay man attracted mainly to East Asian men.
 * Scat queen, gay man into coprophilia


 * Queer, umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual or are not cisgender, sometimes considered a slur
 * Ring raider
 * Sausage jockey (U.K)
 * Shirt lifter
 * Shit stabber
 * Sissy
 * Sod (from Sodomy)
 * Sperm gurgler (referring to the act of oral sex)
 * Turd burglar
 * Twink, a young or young-looking gay man, with little body hair and a slender build
 * Uphill/upstairs gardener, referring to the logistics of anal intercourse
 * Woolly, woofter and woolie woofter, a character from an Evening Standard cartoon and rhyming slang for poofter

For bisexuals or pansexuals

 * Switch hitter (from the baseball term)
 * Unicorn / Hot Bi Babe (HBB): a bisexual person who desires multiple partners and is willing to join an existing married couple (called "Dyads", versus "Triads" when there's a third member). The presumption being that this person will date and become sexually involved with both members of that couple, and not demand anything or do anything which might cause problems or inconvenience to that couple. "Unicorns" are so named because people willing to agree to such arrangements are rare, whereas couples looking for a lovers who will agree to these terms are common. "Dyads" actively seeking unicorns are called "unicorn hunters".

For androgynous or intersex people

 * Futanari (ふたなり) is the Japanese word for hermaphroditism, which is also used in a broader sense for androgyny.
 * Hermie, an androgynous or intersex person

For transgender people

 * Cuntboy / Dickgirl, a female-to-male (FtM) and male-to-female (MtF) transgender/transsexual person, respectively, who has not had bottom surgery.
 * Kathoey, a transgender woman in Thailand.
 * Lady Boy (“ladyboy” or “lady-boy”), a transgender woman.
 * Shemale, a trans woman with male genitalia and possibly female secondary sex characteristics.
 * Trap, trans women who are believed to be tricking or “trapping” people into believing they are cis. (“Reverse trap” refers to trans men.)
 * Tranny, slur used for transgender people.
 * transbian (Non-derogatory), (portmanteau of “trans” and “lesbian”), a transgender lesbian (significant other being trans or cis isn't a factor)

Gender-neutral terms

 * Camp May refer to effeminate behavior or ironic bad taste
 * Egg, a person who has not yet realized they are transgender, has not yet come out, or is in the early stages of transitioning
 * Ginger beer (rhyming slang for gender queer)
 * Molly and Tommy: In 18th century England, the term Molly was used for male homosexuals, implying effeminacy; Tommy, a slang term for a homosexual woman in use by 1781, may have been coined by analogy. See Molly house.

Non-binary

 * Skoliosexual: to describe attraction to non-binary people.

Cisgender

 * Breeder: A heterosexual, who is likely cisgender
 * Cissy: A cisgender person
 * Cishet: Someone who is cisgender and heterosexual, or cisgender and heteroromantic.
 * Chaser / Fetishist: a cisgender person who has a sexual fetish for transgender people, usually transgender women.