An injurious and obsolete term for homosexual, gay person, mainly the passive
one that should
lift the
shirt lap by the sexual act. There is also 'shirtlifter'.
In
British film 'Beautiful Thing', the
lad explains why his mother is
angry: 'because I'm a queer, a bender, a poufter, a knobshiner, a brown hatter, a shirtflaplifter!'