I’ve also noticed it popping up more often in conversations, even with straight people.
OLD TWINK GAY PORN TV
That last season of “Girls” had a character bragged about “partying with twinks.” In an episode of “Happy Endings,” the gay character Max is told not to go to “twink night” at a gay bar because he’s “not a twink.” JWoww, on her reality show spin-off, made a joke about going out with “an otter, a bear and a twink.” When Bravo TV exec-cum-personality Andy Cohen recently called One Direction “twinks,” fans were so pissed off that he had to apologetically tweet that he “misused a word.” (“Often considered a derogatory gay reference,” explained a gossip blog.) One Direction’s spokesperson responded that she wasn’t offended, because the word twink “just means attractive!” “Oh look, it’s Sarah Polley’s bachelorette party!” “He’s just jealous,” they said, dancing around, before pointing out something in the distance. I rejoined my friends on the dance floor, and they told me it only meant I was young, thin and pretty.
I rushed out the door, with no idea what the man was talking about. “You think you’re so great, but you’re just a fucking twink!” he screamed. Finally I nervously - and silently - turned around to leave. This being my first experience with the drunken-gay-bar-urinal come-on, I stood there awkwardly without moving. Like most of our Friday evenings, we spent the night flailing our gangly limbs on the dance floor to Girls Aloud or Jamelia, or whatever awful pop music gays listened to in 2003.īut towards the end of the night, a middle-aged man sidled up to me as I was peeing downstairs. That night, I had gone to the club with two new friends of mine, one of whom, an aspiring actor, kept telling me about this amazing drug, “poppers,” he had just tried.
I was 19, rail-thin and still in my excitable stage of post-coming out euphoria, which, in my case, meant wearing cut-off jeans and raising my hands above my head when I danced. The first time someone called me a twink, it was 2003 and I was standing at the urinal in the basement of a laser-and-smoke-filled club in Toronto.