hairburner

plural hairburners · alternative hair burner

1. slangLGBTA hairdresser, especially a male hairdresser seen as being effeminate.

   The truth was I’d met a couple of hairdressers in Long Beach at this time and decided I wanted to become a hair burner.

   1964, Kate Marlowe (as Kenneth Marlowe), chapter 2, in Mr. Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam, page 55

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   I’m not interested in having a ridiculous “love affair” with some hair burner and taking up “housekeeping”—I’d much rather solicit the momentary services of some stud in the bushes and finish it right there;

   1970, Laud Humphreys, chapter 8, in Tearoom Trade, page 149

   To express anger or contempt toward other gays, to say “I like regular guys like me, but I hate queens and leather freaks and dirty old men and gay libbers and hairburners and those fashion types with their posh apartments,” is only another subterfuge for low self-esteem.

   1977, Charles Silverstein and Edmund White, The Joy of Gay Sex, page 69

   I hope I don’t have to work this hard right up until I do retire. An old-lady hair-burner with tresses piled high, orangey foundation, eyeliner and sagging boobs. Good Lord.

   2005, Jay Gilbertson, chapter 1, in Moon over Madeline Island, page 14