gay boots
n.pl.— «The lack of respect most skateboards had for in-line skating is frequently equated with femininity and homosexuality. One skater said that she and her friends called in-line skates, “gay boots.” I have often heard in-line skaters referred to as “roller fags.” One participant said he was bi-sexual because he rode a skateboard as well as in-line skated.» —“‘Chicks dig scars’: commercialisation and the transformations of skateboarders’ identities” by Becky Beal and Charlen Wilson Understanding Lifestyle Sport Sept. 27, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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