Chickenhawk (sexuality)
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- For other uses, see Chickenhawk.
A chickenhawk is an older gay man who seeks out much younger males (especially twinks) for sexual relationships.
As an idiom within and referencing the LGBT community, chicken hawk (also called chicken hunter, chicken queen or coke-roller) is gay slang used in referring to an older gay man who seeks out much younger men or boys for sex (See pederasty and Homosexual recruitment).
Sometimes used as a disparaging vulgarity within the LGBT community, or seen as a slur against that community, it is now used quite commonly in referring simply to any older man who prefers younger (but legal) men for sex; thus, it is a term somewhat analogous to the sugar daddy.
[edit] Definitions
Definitions of the term, generally drawn up by members of the GLBT community, range from the neutral to the negative.
- Rebecca Scott's A Brief Dictionary of Queer Slang and Culture[1] has:
- chickenhawk - an older person who likes the very young and seeks them out, most often an older gay male.
- chicken - a very young person who cruises older people, usually a gay male under the age of 21.
- The Glinn's Glossary of Sayings, Slang, Signs and Symbols for Gay Men[2] has:
- Chicken hawk, "An older gay man who pursues young boys or men.", "See Chicken."
- Chicken, "A young gay boy or man, especially when pursued by an older man, or chicken hawk."
- Queer Talk[3] has:
- Chicken Hawk - an older gay man who is interested and seeks relationships primarily with young gay men (see Chicken). Negative connotation for the implication of predation by the older man
- Chicken - a young gay man, usually pre- or very early 20's (related: Twink)
- According to Robert Scott's Gay Slang Dictionary (1989, 2001)[4] there are four definitions:
- Paedophile, one with a sexual attraction and need for young boys under the age of consent.
- An adult homosexual who has a sexual attraction to teenage boys or young men.
- A sexual molester of children.
- (Late 1990s) a man in his forties who goes for young men eighteen to twenty-four.
