Right around the time that Larry H. Miller was doing the whole, "God hates gays, and so do I" thing with the movie Brokeback Mountain, he was found to be shouting during a Jazz practice at the players, "You bunch of overpaid twinks."
Not many people happened to think much of it or know what in the crap he was talking about.
However, the gay community did. Why? Because that word comes from the gay community.
A 'twink' is a cute young boy who looks like a very cute young boy. He's the male equivalent of the "schoolgirl" fantasy. And the term was NOT well known in the heterosexual world. I had no clue, and it was only my gay brother who said, go google it, and you'll see what I mean.
AND BOY HOWDY DID I! It was like an MTC after gym time reunion without the aging!
What's the point of this? Well, it's just interesting that back in 2006, a very prominent Mormon who was being very prominent about his disdain for showing a film where gay cowboys did gay things and were trying to not be so gay but finding out that maybe it wasn't the gay that was wrong but how everyone else viewed gaiety happened to use a VERY, VERY gay term (as a pejorative, yes) but one that wasn't known by heterosexuals of MY generation let alone HIS generation.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.............
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