Gay slang for 'a cute young thing, male'

cited in the essay Zwicky, A. M. (1997). “Two Lavender Issues for Linguists.” In Livia, A. & Hall, K. (eds), Queerly
Phrased. Oxford: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics, pp 21-34.

Previously in American gay slang of the 1970s the word referred to a goodlooking heterosexual man.

Cassell's Queer Companion, A Dictionary of Lesbian and Gay Life and Culture by William Stewart 1995