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First week of September 2010, the White House's Oval office has been made over by “chi-chi” decorator Michael Smith. He's also referred to as “fancypants”. (Other reports say he’s openly gay.)

 
acerbic (see waspish)

alternative lifestyles
   being gay

flamboyant    “Drag artist Danny La Rue is auctioning off part of his flamboyant collection of antiques later this month.” BBC 13 Jan 04 (Has it replaced outrageous?) “Flamboyant Nicky [Haslam] ... is extremely popular with all the new Russians in town.” Evening Standard December 6, 2006 Also means lesbian “flamboyant Australian poet” Dorothy Porter Guardian December 16, 2008

flamboyantly gay   promiscuous
 
flowing   clothes worn by gay men – especially when applied to a garment that can’t possibly flow. Flamboyant Zenja, dancing in a micro-mini and a flowing handkerchief-style top on the stage of Purple Fly, is a former first team rugby player and deputy head boy of his Boksburg school. Sunday Times of South Africa 28 Oct 2001 Take a flat character and make him gay, and all you have are the stereotypical attributes: loose, flowing garments; a somewhat insulting code name; unlikely speech patterns. www.quarterbin.net on Truly Awful Comics and a gay character called Extrañ.
 
lavender

lifestyle choice    choosing to be gay

lifestyles   gay lifestyles

orchidaceous

outrageous

perfumed     It had once decorated the perfumed house shared by Saint Laurent and his partner… on the rue de Babylone. Evening Standard mag January 8, 2010

sashay   Mandy has “sashayed” back into the cabinet, Daily Telegraph Oct 08

screamingly palatial   Siegfried and Roy’s pad

screamingly     “This is more like early Almodóvar, outrageous, flashy fun, often with screamingly loud colour schemes...” Guardian Feb 4 2005

waspish    see any reference to Clifton Webb anywhere. In 1984 [Denholm Elliott] was unforgettably waspish as the dying social lion who dictates his own death notice in The Razor's Edge (the role played by Clifton Webb in the 1946 version).  britishcinemagreats.com “Webb used a sharp tongue and a waspish manner” nytimes.com “ Cathcart's waspish art-collector husband (Clifton Webb)” video.tvguide “a waspish journalist who maintained an ambivalent relationship with Laura” geocities.com “Webb tended to play the familiar waspish character over and over” Web “He was subsequently typecast as a waspish, acidulous, pedantic bachelor” theoscarsite.com