“Jon and Martin are here as well, so it could almost be called a double date. If Gerry and Elias were dating. Which they aren’t. It could probably be called a double date regardless. There’s not really a term for “out to the zoo with my best mate, his boyfriend, and the dickhead I’ve been shagging for almost a year now,” which is a real failure of the English language, or imagination on the part of English speakers. Maybe German’s got a sixty letter compound word to cover it. He’ll have to look into that when he’s not otherwise occupied with walking about a place full of children with limited spatial awareness.” RomanceHumourGay Book:different roads Source: different roads