Citations:rough trade


 * 2002, Robert Aldrich, Garry Wotherspoon, Who's who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II (ISBN 0415159830):
 * Connors's biography corrects these fabulations and provides a frank portrait of Nichols's relationships and promiscuous sex life, including his penchant for rough trade and masochistic sex.
 * 2005, Claude J. Summers, The Queer Encyclopedia of Film & Television, page 64:
 * Their pointed satire took aim at regional differences, national assumptions, and gay codes. The show had a recurring “Queen's Counselors” sketch about two fey, gay Newfoundland lawyers. The more outrageous Kids in the Hall had a penchant for drag, gender-bending, and pro-homo skits, featuring nellie bon vivant Buddy Cole; the Sappho Sluggers (a lesbian softball team); Running Faggot—a new folk hero; and Dracula, a gay aesthete with a taste for rough trade.
 * 2010, Justin Vicari, Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema (ISBN 0786485264):
 * We note that Sami bears some resemblance to an earlier Téchiné character, Benjamin Sauvagnac (Mathieu Amalric) in Alice and Martin. Benjamin is a homosexual with a distinct taste for rough trade; yet he lives in a kind of cozy, intimate codependency with Alice (Juliette Binoche).


 * 1988, Seymour Kleinberg, Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America (ISBN 0312021585), page 147:
 * Gay male sexual preference has always favored a butch boyish beauty, and only in artistic or intellectual circles has beauty been allowed a certain feyness. Butchncss is always relative; the least swishy man in the room is the most butch. It usually meant one looked straight, one could pass. In the past, an over-enthusiasm for butchness translated itself into a taste for rough trade.


 * The New York Times, quoted in 2002, Robert Lang, Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Films, page 244:
 * [Quoth] the New York Times: "Mr. McLean's film adaptation . . . makes a heavy-handed Freudian equation between the vicious beatings Wojnarowicz endured at the hands of his father and his cruising for rough trade at truck stops and on the road."