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A particularly effeminate one.
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(A particularly British malady).
A self-mythologizing middle-aged gay man, Chauncey works as a "nance," a parody of an effeminate gay man, in a vaudeville house on Irving Place.
The pamphlet concludes with a poem, "Petit Maître", criticizing a man with an effeminate appearance.
"It was a very risky piece for an actor - a television play about an effeminate homosexual who is also an exhibitionist.
(Her first EP, "Ur So Gay," a diatribe about an effeminate boyfriend, did not help).
Two women said they had been phoned by a man with an effeminate voice called Terry Denton.
That being a woman was a better choice than being an effeminate gay man because as an effeminate gay man I'd been so abused.
The dictionary defines a "nance" as a homosexual or effeminate male, but in '30s burlesque this popular — and indeed effeminate — character was often played by a heterosexual male.
Am I secretly ashamed of being thought of a failure, or a freak, or effeminate?
It was a difficult childhood for an effeminate boy who liked to dress up in costumes and entertain.
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