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For a time, twinks were a bit of a novelty. The spread of “twink” in queer communities might even be related to the Internet making twink-related pornography readily available. But the term seems to have become common and accepted by the 90’s, when a 1995 article in The Advocate casually used the word “twink” to describe the band Take That - fair enough. And in 1978, a language survey called the Maledicta stated that “a youthful, effeminate young man” should be called “twinkle-toes.”īecause queer communities tended to be geographically isolated back then, it seems as though different cities and subcultures had their own meanings for all these different words. The 1972 book The Queens’ Vernacular defined “twinkle-toes” as “effeminate.” In 1975, the leather culture resource Drummer Magazine defined “twink” as the masochist or slave in a relationship, and added that “twinkie” was an unrelated term referring to young men. But if you go back to the 70s, there’s a lot more variety. The book Homolexis defined it as “as attractive youth” in 1985, which is pretty close to what we’d say today. Prior to internet porn, there was a lot of confusion about exactly what a twink really was. If any slang is derived from Twinkies, it’s that. It was a super weird argument to make in court, and gave rise to the term “Twinkie Defense,” meaning an outlandish excuse for committing a crime. It sounds unbelievable, but it’s true: Harvey’s killer, Dan White, claimed that he had been suffering from depression and pointed to his binge-eating of Twinkies as proof.
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(it's me).īrowse through old newspaper sports sections from the 1930s through the 1950s, and you’ll find headlines like “Twinks Badly Mauled by Seattle” and “Twinks Hold Stiff Workout.” There was a home perm kit called Twink, and a baseball team in Los Angeles called The Hollywood Twinks. In the early to mid-20th century, the word was widely accepted to refer to twinkling, as in something sparkly and shiny and new.
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“Twink” as gay slang might have come from straight culture, which simply wasn’t using the word to its full potential. “Twink” might have evolved as shorthand for the term “twinkletoes.” In a 1919 novel called Twinkletoes: A Tale of Limehouse, a girl is first nicknamed “Twinkletoes” which is then just shortened to “twink.” In the book, one observer comments, “Ain’t she a dam queer kid?” Sadly, there isn’t much gay porn that survives from the 1800s, so if there was a Victorian version of Bel Ami, it’s lost to the ages. They went by mollies in England, and knabe in Germany - a problematic term, since it translates to “boy” and raises questions about age of consent. Of course, young hairless fair-featured men still existed, but they had different monikers back then. A far cry from the word’s meaning today! But in England, you might hear the word “twank,” referring to what we would call sugar daddies. Go back 100 years, and you’re unlikely to hear “twink” in queer circles. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary defines "twink" as a noun: a “wink” or “twinkling,” and also as a verb, meaning to “punish” or “thrash.” Oh Webster, you dirty bird! These days, we’re all pretty much in agreement about what the word “twink” means: It’s a pretty exclusionary term, tightly focused on young men who are slender, hairless, usually blond, and usually white.