twinkdom

Maybe it’s the turning 25 and forever-bidding adieu to twinkdom, but nothing lasts forever.

2002 Jun, Rob Browatzke, “Break Ups are Not Fun”, in Dennis Cambly, editor, Times .10, volume 9, number 9, Edmonton, Alta.: Times .10 Publications, page 34

God, that period of my life-- Mikey and I were separated, and I clung desperately to the last vestiges of twinkdom: knee-high tube socks, wife beaters, and that goddamned bottle-opener necklace, declaring my obvious devotion to the bar scene.

2011, Marshall Callaway, “Charley's Stop”, in Deena Brabant, editor, arden, volume xiii, Columbus, Ga.: Columbus State University, page 30

So whilst the rejection of twinkdom and the prioritisation of youth in gay culture, which was part of bear culture's development, is replaced with a positive celebration and eroticisation of maturity in bear porn, […]

2017, John Mercer, “Straight acting? Heterosexuality, Hypermasculinity and the Gay Outlaw”, in Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity, London; New York: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 133

He was less of a twink than Kris—and Kris suspected twink was basically Rayne’s type—but that wasn’t a fair comparison. Kris was like, the Platonic ideal of twinkdom.

2018, Arden Powell, chapter 11, in A Summer Soundtrack for Falling in Love, Riptide Publishing, →ISBN, page 163

Twinkdom is also a short-lived phase of life; time is the twink’s ontological threat.

2022, Gary Needham, “American Twink Story”, in Brenda R. Weber, David Greven, editors, Ryan Murphy’s Queer America, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN