Talk:wide receiver

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# {{jocular|vulgar|_|slang}} The one who plays the female role in a male-on-male [[homosexual]] relationship.
#* '''2001''', George Alexander, ''Houston Press'', “Play Ball!” [http://www.houstonpress.com/2001-05-17/dining/play-ball/]:
#*: To fine-tune the comparison a bit further, sports bars are closer in spirit to the type of gay bar known to habitués as a wrinkle bar. There, paunchy, pasty, out-of-shape guys go to drink and watch really buff guys on the TV screens. Sure, in a sports bar, TV is always understood to signify "television" rather than "transvestite," and the terms "tight end" and "'''wide receiver'''" conjure up different mental images in each place.
#* '''2003''', ''Justin Taylor'' (Randy Harrison), ''Queer As Folk: Episode 102'':
#*: I started out as a tight end and ended up a '''wide receiver'''.
#* '''2005''', David Deutsch, Joshua Neuman, ''The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies'', page 106:
#*: This is all the more remarkable, considering how blatantly gay the positions were, such as “tight end,” “'''wide receiver''',” and “between the thighs ball-grabber,” although changing the last to “quarterback” may have helped.
#* '''2006''', Joel Tan, ''Inside Him: New Gay Erotica'', Carroll & Graf Publishers, ISBN 078671722X:
#*: In football lingua: He was my '''wide receiver''', and I, his tight end.

wide receiver

Rfv-sense: (vulgar slang) The one who plays the female role in a male-on-male homosexual relationship.—msh210℠ 22:40, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

It's somewhat popular jocular slang in that sense, printed on T-shirts, etc. Do T-shirts count as citations? Rod (A. Smith) 22:48, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

As long as you can point to a webpage which sells them (with the term in clear view), then I’d say they should. † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 12:05, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

http://www.cafepress.com/prideinart.29295483 shows the quote on a T-shirt, but it seems that the T-shirt quote came from a Queer as Folk episode, so I cited the original instead, along with other examples. Rod (A. Smith) 18:28, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Now there are four citations; but (meaning no offense) I'm not sure they're good. The first is a mention. (The second seems okay.) The third (although I can't see the context) seems to be discussing football (and may be a mention anyway). The fourth uses the term as a pun: the speaker seems to be (re)inventing the term on the spot.—msh210℠ 22:49, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, it is well understood jocular slang in gay bars, in this courtroom, and among those who see these products, but I cannot find any additional book hits to support it. It would be weird for this to go and (deprecated template usage) wintard to stay, but I don't care enough to add non-durable citations. Rod (A. Smith) 23:47, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

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This one is really close, but the provided cites aren't quite enough based on the above discussion. Two more good cites would be enough to put this back in. - [The]DaveRoss 01:01, 13 April 2008 (UTC)