Fop gay

In short, fop could be applied to any man who defied eighteenth century gender norms. Whether fop gained the connotation of homosexuality, and how strong this association was if it did exist, is unclear.

A fop is also referred to as a "beau", as in the Restoration comedies The Beaux' Stratagem () by George Farquhar, The Beau Defeated () by Mary Pix, or the real-life Beau Nash, master of ceremonies at Bath, or Regency celebrity Beau Brummell. The sexual recklessness of "beau" may imply homosexuality. [4].

Usually high-cultured, well-dressed, very social individual who enjoys fashion and parties and prissy things like that. Perfect personal hygiene. NOT always gay, though often so. Often cannot actually afford this expensive, high-class lifestyle but somehow tries to live it anyway.

In the current era, most people think of Fops in relation to gay-coded characters (mostly villains) in movies and TV. But this homophobic reskin of the Fop is a modern invention that has nothing to do with the archetype’s origins. This begs the question: how did the Fop make such an extreme leap?.