Bambi effect (slang)

For the objection against killing "cute" animals, see Bambi effect.

The "Bambi effect" in LGBT slang denotes a young gay man's foray into heterosexuality: "the turning of a young (otherwise homosexual) man's fancy to (heterosexual) love"[1] by reference to "the 'twitter-pated' Bambi" leaving Thumper in the 1942 movie Bambi.[2]

  1. ^ Green, Jonathon (2005). Cassell's Dictionary of Slang. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 63. ISBN 9780304366361.
  2. ^ Wilkinson, Peter Richard (2002). Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors (2nd ed.). Psychology Press. p. 966. ISBN 9780415276856. Retrieved 29 March 2012.