I pushed up out of my chaise and headed for the miniten court. Leah handed me her thug as I walked past her.

He belted out the national anthem. (Perhaps a derivative or cognate of English bellow),

There are several different degrees of straightsplaining. That word, inspired by the increasingly common mansplaining, describes the practice of straight people explaining how gay people are, or what gay people do, or how gay people do what they do, or why.

Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.