I’m trying to find the Origin and History of the term “Shirt Lifter”. I know it was used in Australia and here in the UK as a slang word for gay men in the 1960s. Have you ever been called a “Shirt Lifter”?
Shirt Lifter
I’m trying to find the Origin and History of the term “Shirt Lifter”. I know it was used in Australia and here in the UK as a slang word for gay men in the 1960s. Have you ever been called a “Shirt Lifter”?
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This may help
This is what Wiktionary Says
Etymology
From the imagined lifting of a long shirt to facilitate receiving anal sex.
But this book may give more information found this on Google Scholar
Mapping the terrain of homosexually-themed language
M McCormack – Sport, masculinities and sexualities, 2013 – taylorfrancis.com
… highlight that no phrase is necessarily part of a particular category. For example, when I was
a closeted school student I heard the phrase “that’s so gay” frequently, and it was one of the …
When at school, we saw a classmate with an erection, we said that he was “raising a tent.” Maybe it has a similar meaning, because it was also visible in some priests at the school where we went…
Yes, the bloke in the red and black check shirt at the top “has got a real shirt lifter” too….
So how you use it grammatically could indicate really healthy hard cox
The guy at the front of this red and black checks can lift my shirt anytime
I love the “ye olde” homo terms. They always refer to furtive anonymous encounters. When I saw this section, I had a sudden urge to drop my pants and lift my shirt in my office.
I’d rather have my shirt lifted … ‘spent too many years being the ‘lifter’ . 😜
Obviously refers to two guys and the top having to
Lift the shirt tails to gain entrance to the passion hole .
Yes, BoB calls me a shirtlifter… he might be able to help. Clearly it’s all about anal sex and you needed to be wearing a shirt with a tail…
I love that term. I’ve lifted a few shirts myself and pillow biter is another great term to which I am proud to answer.
thank you gentle men