STIF

A gay man seen as exhibiting heterosexual manners or attitudes.

Noun

  1. A gay man seen as exhibiting heterosexual manners or attitudes.
    • If there's "male hatred' in my book it's directed at those same attitudes in gay males who are […] still permeated with such solipsistic male assumptions, like those of our fathers and forefathers, that the world is for...

Origin

Modified acronym of "straight-identified faggot". Punning on the slang sense of stiff, "a conventionalist person".

Forms

STIFs STIFF