light in the loafers

US, 1967.

• "Men of my group are either married or, as S.P. would say, ‘light in the loafers.’ Homosexuals, you'd call them."
• "You'll make a nice living; and maybe when you're sixty you'll marry a nice guy, a little light in the loafers maybe, but you'll still be pure by then; and you'll do the grand-lady bit, and he’ll be your escort."
• "“What about Father Jim and Mr. Gary?” Mary Lane said, passing by me, “They are light in the loafers together.”"

• homophile
• homosexual
• like that
• queer
• similisexual
• that way