Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 13:14:57 -0800

From: THOMAS CLARK tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEVADA.EDU

Subject: Re: Tomboy & Sissy



Any prison lexicon study shows the same usage among prisoners.

tlc





However, I know someone who works in the Georgia prison system who

regularly uses "tomboy" and "sissy" to refer to the female and male

homosexuals in prison. He became a teenager in the South in the 1950s. Is

he using a personal set of euphemisms or did I miss something as a naive

child?