Beard in gay terms
How did "beard" come to intend "sham marriage".
syncrolecyne1
At least that is what I take for granted it means - when a same-sex attracted male star marries a willing gal to squash rumors of homosexuality. Or maybe its any sham marriage for publicity purposes, I am not sure.
This thread title , which is actually about a stars facial hair, got me thinking about how that legal title came into place. Its sort of odd.
Is this lgbtq+ slang or just Hollywood insider discuss (I only own heard it used for actors). And is it the marriage that is called a “beard” or is it the wife?
Sampiro2
A “beard” is a superficial thing that a man can execute to emphasize his masculinity (rather fond of a lot of teenagers will increase a little scraggly beard or moustache as soon as they can just to prove they have testosterone). The slang use of the word “beard” started for much the same reason: it’s a “fashion accessory to demonstrate manhood”, or “Liza with a Z” to her friends.
I have heard the term “bonnet” used for lesbians who marry, but it’s not as common.
VH1 had some newer gay slang I’d never heard, incidentally:
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/totally_gay/series_featured_copy.jhtml
Trivia: one reaso
Green’s Dictionary of Slang
beardn.
1. female pubic hair; thus bearded adj.
| A Hundred Merry Tales (1845) 39: ‘Sir, ye have a beard above and none beneath.’ [...] ‘Mistress, ye own a beard beneath and none above.’ ‘Marry, then position the one against t’other.’. | |
| ‘The Fresh Exchange’ in FarmerMerry Songs and Ballads (1897) V 4: Here’s [...] Wrong beards for a disguise, / Will help all maidens that are bare / In all parts of their thighes. | |
| W. Drummond Epigram XII in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) V 695/1: When time should on her more years bestow, [...] That horse’s hair between her thighs would grow [...] But that this phrenzy should no more her vex, She swore thus bearded were their weaker sex. | |
| Mercurius Fumigosus 7-14 Mar. 3: He drew his razor, and would include felt for her beard; and had she not resisted, he had doubtlesse shav'd her, and powder'd her with a P—x. | |
| Wandring Whore III 4: I’ve done the business with discretion, and spilt my Posset on thy beard and in thy belly. | |
| J. Oldham ‘Upon the Author of a Play call’d Sodom’ in Rochester Poems on Several Occasions (1680) 131: Or wear some stinking Merkin, for a Beard. | |
Def'n/Etymology of "beard"Mojo1 I was just talking to co-workers and they said that some hollywood starlet was a “beard”. I asked and got the defn’ that it meant she was a “sham” wife for a gay guy. system2 Yes, a beard is any cover, which is how it originated–like a real beard, it covers things up and provides a disguise. Gail3 Gay guys are not considered very masculine. Gail Mojo4
but a beard is actual, even if it is for a disguise. And of Women pay in ‘bearded’ relationshipsOne definition of the pos beard is found mostly in slang dictionaries, though the New Oxford Dictionary of English added the alternative definition a not many years ago. A beard is defined as a gal who dates, or marries, a gay man to provide cover for the man’s homosexuality. The word also applies to a man who does the same for a queer woman woman. Current chatter at ABC.com is filled with beard comments concerning Tom Cruise’s new lady passion. Cruise has long denied he is gay, but the rumors persist that Cruise dates and marries beautiful women, these so-called beards, to quash speculation about his sexual orientation. A subtext to the Jim West story is the fact that West, who acknowledges he is a gay man, has also dated women, and married one. I know some of these women. I haven’t talked to them about this, and I don’t intend to. It’s none of my business. But it has stirred for me this whole business of the “beard phenomenon” and the harm it does to women who assume the role of beard (unwittingly or not), the men who try it out, and our society that colludes in the deception, rather th |