It is a term with confusing origins, as are many others of the LGBT slang, and although there is a coincidence that it would be a hypocoristic euphemism (as pee, or poo …) it is not clear whether it refers to the term “bichon”, which is a breed of dogs similar to the poodle...
Only the immigrants can speak the Queen's English these days' but all kids have a Jamaican accent: overcompensation vs. urban slang in multiethnic London According to surveys carried out in the past two decades (M. Sebba 1993, P.L. Patrick 1999, Sue Fox 2005) the urban slang spoken in...
Age gaps tend to be more accepted in the queer community than they are in general. Maybe this is because we’re already doing something that differs from the norm, so an age difference on top of it is just icing on the deviance cake. Or maybe it has to do with the gendered tendency ...