Pansy
1945
Meriel reports that her aunt referred to her gay godfather as a ‘pansy’, which was the terminology at the time.
“I think gay people were known and accepted at the time as friends, but it was all hush hush and (heterosexual) people had a surreptitious way of talking about it, such as ‘Pansy’; gay men used to refer to themselves as ‘queer’ at this time’.."
Contributed by: Meriel Bloor ne Monsell, 72