banjee
A streetwise, tough, masculine urban type — also a ballroom realness category.
Definitions
Banjee describes a streetwise, hyper-masculine urban look and attitude — someone who can hang with the roughest crowd and blend straight into the hood. In ballroom it doubles as a Realness category (sometimes called Banjee or Thug Realness): you have to pass convincingly as that tough urban guy, no softness clocked. The word came out of Black and Latino queer New York.
banjee In A Sentence
Origin & Usage
Black and Latino LGBTQ communities of New York; describing a tough, streetwise masculine presentation, later codified as a ballroom Realness category.
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