beads:

A metaphor for one's homosexuality , the inner awareness of being gay .
See also: bust-one's-beads ; drop-one's-beads ; explore-the-beads ; in-the-beads ; rattle-the-(giddy)-beads ; read-the-beads ; shake-the-beads ; wear-giddy-beads ; wings ; wreck-somebody's-beads .

Quote: Bruce Rodgers. The Queens' Vernacular (1972): 'Beads represent an imaginary string of pearls worn by all homosexual men; thus the clutching mannerism so common to effeminates. Others believe that beads distinguish certain circular erogenous-zones of the body - the breasts, genitals , buttocks . '

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