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beads
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A metaphor for one's homosexuality, the inner awareness of being gay.See also: bust one's beads; drop one's beads; explore the beads; in the beads; rattle the (giddy) beads; read the beads; shake the beads; wear giddy beads; wings; wreck somebody's beads.
Quote: Bruce Rodgers. The Queens' Vernacular (1972): 'Beads represent an imaginary string of pearls worn by all homosexual men; thus the clutching mannerism so common to effeminates. Others believe that beads distinguish certain circular erogenous zones of the body - the breasts, genitals, buttocks. '
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