Thanksgiving’s Unofficial Fruit
Fresh or fresh out of the can with those weird indentations still intact — no table is complete without cranberries during the holidays. And seeing as cranberries are Thanksgiving’s unofficial fruit — we began to wonder about other fruit, including the word itself and how it became equated with gay men. The term first became used to refer to gay men in 1935, and some believe it was due to the word’s prior association with “a girl or woman willing to oblige.” Gay men have long been connected to slang that serves to emasculate them and “fruit” most likely falls into that category.
