American
fag hag synonyms include
fruit fly, Heterosexuals who associate with lesbian, gay, and bisexual people may be called
fruit flies regardless of their sex. Fag hags, fag stags, etc. are regarded as belonging to the phenomenon of "hagism", the attachment of a person to a group defined by
sexuality, even though they do not personally share that identity. In the
Philippines, heterosexual women who develop deep friendships or almost exclusively associate with the native
bakla LGBT subculture are known as
babaeng bakla (literally "a woman who is a
bakla [gay man]"). They stereotypically acquire the mannerisms, campy sense of humor, lingo (
swardspeak), and fashion sense of the
bakla. They are also usually more extroverted and socially dominant. It is commonly perceived as a positive self-identification, and various prominent local celebrities (like
Maricel Soriano and
Rufa Mae Quinto) openly identify as
babaeng bakla.
Girlfag is a term similar to
fag hag, but designate specifically
attraction, either
sexually or
romantically, to gay men, sometimes to the point of
identifying as
queer or
genderqueer. Men who are attracted to lesbians/sapphics also have their slangs, such as
lesboy,
guydyke, and
boydyke. ==In popular culture==