cover a spectrum of people from men who simply acted in a feminine way all the way to men who actually wore women's clothing fairies were usually considered their own gender altogether or an intermediate sex and a large number of the sex workers were fairies because they had so few other job options the wolves on the other hand referred to men who were undeniably conventionally masculine men but were overtly set in their sexual preference for other men usually fairies and often sought out marriages with them wolf was an interchangeable term though many people at the time also used it to refer to older masculine gay men who actively sought partnerships with younger and more inexperienced ones who were called punks the punks would seek out these sexual relationships in exchange for money or protection from the wolf this was typically common in prisons among sailors or among transient workers and those who terms aren't even beginning to touch the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the wide array of identity terms that gay men in the early NUMBER_TOKENs could have used times square was a silently very organized hustling situation there were the more well-dressed and mannered sex workers who catered to the gay middle class men leaving the theaters the more casual sex workers on the other side the fairy prostitutes who catered to both gay men and men who considered themselves normal and the areas where non-sex workers went to cruise all of these systems co-existed covertly in the same area as george chauncey writes in gay new york times square served as the primary social center for many such non-residents a place where they met their friends built their strongest social ties let their hair down and constructed public identities different from those they maintained at work and elsewhere in the straight world they built a gay world for themselves on the basis of the ties they developed in the commercial institutions entrepreneurs had developed to serve the needs of the theater workers rooming in the district and the tourists who flocked there people often referred to the hectic streets of the theater district as the frenzied NUMBER_TOKENs but broadway brevities the one paper that delighted in identifying the haunts of even the most discreet gay men went on to nickname the residential area just north of it as the NUMBER_TOKENs it wasn't hard for broadway brevities to figure out to say about gay people they were literally on broadway in the middle of the action and broadway theater itself was and still is absolutely overflowing with the gays who couldn't give less of a about hiding how gay they are to the straight outsiders the whole thing was a complete shocking spectacle maybe even exciting tantalizing to gay and questioning readers the column read like a gay person's guide to the city however insulting it was and as time drew on through the roaring twenties a new phenomenon began to creep up on new york the pansy craze yeah straight people became kind of obsessed with the gays in the NUMBER_TOKENs to NUMBER_TOKENs and times square as a result began to evolve into almost a sort of gay carnival that straight people flocked to it was during this time that a knight in fairyland ran and the demand and interest for that kind of content was absolutely there one new york paper wrote in NUMBER_TOKEN the latest gag about NUMBER_TOKENam is to have your picture taken with one or two pansies in times square the queens
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