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midnight cowboy
noun
a homosexual prostitute, originally one who wears cowboy clothes; hence a homosexual man US
Brought from gay subculture into wider use by the film Midnight Cowboy, 1969. The less subtle, general sense resulted from the film’s success.- The clothes chosen by the fetishists epitomize masculinity: cowboys, sailors, etc. The model acting out the cowboy then is a midnight cowboy[.] — Bruce Rodgers, The Queens’ Vernacular, 1972
- — Maledicta, p. 223, 1979: “Kinks and queens: linguistic and cultural aspects of the terminology for gays”
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 156, 1981
- [I]t showed triple bills of westerns to Popeyes, inner city denizens, kids playing hooky, and bored Midnight Cowboys. — Bill Landis, Sleazoid Express, p. 154, 2002
- Orange Julius was the spot where Midnight Cowboys copped heroin in the 70s. — Josh Friedman, When Sex Was Dirty, p. 53, 2005
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