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tearoom; t-room
noun
a public toilet US, 1932
From an era when a great deal of homosexual contact was in public toilets; probably an abbreviation of “toilet room,” a term used in reported criminal prosecutions of homosexuals in the late C19. A public toilet in Illinois was the focus of Laud Humphrey’s famous sociological study Tearoom Trade. The term gained new life in 2006 when Idaho Senator Larry Craig was arrested for engaging in tea-room sex solicitation.- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 266, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- “I’m Jenny and this is my tearoom” – indicating the head[.] — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 193, 1963
- “Tearoom” derives from tea, cute euphemism for pee, in case anyone asks. — John Francis Hunter, The Gay Insider, p. 190, 1971
- In fact, he may enjoy regarding himself as the one who’s been “put upon,” who suffers because of “perverts” in local t-rooms. — Screw, p. 13, 18 January 1971
- I suppose there has been such activity since the invention of plumbing. I first started out in one of those pavilion places. But the real fun began during the depression. Suddenly, it just seemed like half the men in town met in the tearooms. — Laud Humphreys, Tearoom Trade, pp. 5–6, 1975
- Thinking of joining the ranks? Cruising the tearooms? — Miguel Pinero, Short Eyes, p. 18, 1975
- There are many among us (let’s face it) who enjoy the seamier side of gay life: the parks, the tearooms, and the peep shows. — Drummer, p. 26, 1977
- “Wilfred’s gonna help me set up a tearoom this summer for the tourists.” “Really?” “A real tearoom, dipshit.” — Armistead Maupin, Babycakes, p. 291, 1984
- Some men, particularly those who were professionally successful in jobs that required them to pass as straight, found it astonishing that anyone in their circles would risk going to a tearoom. — George Chauncey, Gay New York, p. 199, 1994
- [H]e was never tempted to use the other, less-safe, less-rewarding encounters in tearroms or parks that many married men choose. — John Preston, Hustling, p. 67, 1994
- “Like years ago, when guys were getting arrested just for staring at something in a tearoom?” — Ethan Morden, Some Men Are Lookers, p. 117, 1997
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