PANSIES (or DAISY or BUTTERCUP) (jan 1, 1920 – jan 1, 1940)

Description:

"Most of the vernacular terms used by "normal" observers for fairies, such as she-man, nance, and sissy, as well as fairy it self, emphasized the centrality of effeminacy to their character. In the 1920s and 1930s, esoecially, such men were also often called pansies, and the names of other flowers such as daisy and buttercup were applied so commonly to gay men that they were sometimes simply called "horticulture lads.""
(Chauncey, Gay New York, 15).