Gayer than a two dollar bill

Queer as a $10 Bill?

You’ve probably all heard the statement “Queer as a $3 bill,” which was originally “Queer as a Clockwork Orange.” Though originally it was meant as a way to claim something was strange, it has taken on more essence today as someone who is homosexual. But maybe the phrase would be more accurate as “Queer as a $10 bill.” Most people think of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton as the face on the $10 bill (which now has a pinkish hue to it), but would he have been better suited for the $3 bill? There’s some evidence in his letters that he may acquire been bisexual. Come to think if it, if he was bisexual, maybe he belongs on the $2 bill. Sorry, it’s late as I record this, and I can be a bit silly late at night.

Hamilton married Elizabeth Schuyler in 1780 and fathered a total of eight children, but some historians believe Hamilton had a romantic association with fellow solider and aristocrat John Laurens while both men were aide-de-camps to George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Washington’s concern for his male colleagues clearly extended to their personal lives. This was especially true of Hamilton, who he brought with gayer than a two dollar bill

as a two dollar bill

birder said:
To clarify: The re-introduction of the $2 bill in 1976 mentioned by Gengo was a one-shot commemorative issue for the 1776-1976 bicentennial celebrations and not a re-introduction of a general-issue $2 bill.
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That's not correct, but you can be excused for not understanding the arcane dating practices of the Federal Reserve system.

Unlike US coins, which logically bear the year in which they were minted, US currency (all denominations, and not just two-dollar bills) bears a series dine , indicating the year in which that style of bill was first issued. A new style of bill was issued in 1976, and that design is called the "series of 1976," but that series was issued continuously until 1996, when a new series was issued. This is sort of like the US Navy practice of classifying its ships by using the name of the first ship of that class, such as a "Los Angeles class submarine." So when you see a two-dollar bill with a date of 1976, it does notmean the bill was printed in that year.

The US treasury often gets letters asking if the two-dollar bill is rare, and it answers that although the bill

queer as a three-dollar bill

(as) queer as a three-dollar bill

1. Completely and obviously false or fake; not genuine or authentic in the slightest. (There has never been a three-dollar bill in circulation in the United States.) Primarily heard in US. The guy claims to instruct you how to acquire rich in a rush, but the whole thing sounds as queer as a three-dollar bill.The senator's hammed-up, teary-eyed speech was queer as a three-dollar bill, if you inquire me.A: "I'm sorry, but your so-called Louis Vuitton bag is queer as a three-dollar bill." B: "What? How can you tell?"

2. Completely or blatantly not heterosexual or cisgender. Offensive when used pejoratively. Primarily heard in US. Honey, I'm as gay as a three-dollar bill and proud of it.My parents were not terribly surprised when I came out. I'm queer as a three-dollar bill and always knew it—and I think they did too.

queer as a three-dollar bill

verb

See as phony as a three-dollar bill

queer as a three-dollar bill

verb

See as homosexual as a three-dollar bill

Queer As a What?

May 7, 2014

In a recent interview about a fascinating-lookingtelephone-hotline documentary, phone psychic and infomercial star Ms. Cleo revealed that she’s not just gay — “I’m as gay as a two dollar bill,” she declared.
[Source: “Ms. Cleo Comes to Hot Docs: ‘I’m Gay As a Two Dollar Bill’” IndieWire, May 1, 2014]

Really? There’s nothing gay, straight, or generally sexual about a $2 bill, as far as I can discern.

Ms. Cleo gives us a satisfactory example of the bastardization of the anachronistic term “queer as a three-dollar bill.” First, some definitions.

“Queer as a three-dollar bill”:

Older term that means extremely strange but is usually heard in reference to a gay person. There never was a three-dollar bill…thus the rarity.
(Urban Dictionary)

Okay, that basically makes sense — in the context of queer essence “phony” and three-dollar bill representing nonexistence. But at some point in the past few decades, both parts of the term changed! What kind of crazy alchemy was at work?

Although queer had been employed to me