What Does G/T Mean? Gay Giants and Tinies Explained

G/T stands for giant/tiny. It's the tag for any story, picture or fantasy built around one very big person and one very small one. You'll often see it written G/t, with a small t for the tiny. In gay spaces it usually means two men: a giant who could hold the other in one hand, and a tiny man who fits in that hand, and everything that happens between them.

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to stand in a giant's palm, or to have a man small enough to keep in your shirt pocket, you're already into G/T. You just didn't have the word for it.

What does G/T mean?

G/T is shorthand for giants and tinies. It started as a tag in fan fiction and art communities, where it labels stories about a giant character and a tiny one. Plenty of G/T is sweet and completely non-sexual: found families, a giant protecting a tiny friend, a tiny explorer in a giant's house. Plenty of it is very much for adults.

For gay men, G/T sits right next to two other words you'll meet a lot:

Macrophilia, the attraction to giants and to being small beside them. There's a full guide in What Is Macrophilia? The Size Fetish Explained.
Microphilia, the attraction to tiny people, and to being the big one. Macrophilia vs microphilia explains the difference.

G/T is the umbrella over both. It doesn't say which end you're on, only that there's a giant, a tiny and a very big gap between them.

G/T, macro, micro and GTS: a quick glossary

Size communities have their own vocabulary. These are the terms you'll see most:

G/T or G/t: giant/tiny. Any story or art with a giant and a tiny person.
Macro: the giant, or the giant side of the fantasy. Also used for the whole genre ("macro/micro").
Micro: the tiny person. A micro can be a few inches tall or small enough to stand on a fingertip.
GTS: giantess. Mostly used in straight size communities, so it's rarely what gay fans are after.
Size difference (SD): the gap itself, from a big height difference between two real men to fantasy giants.
Shrinking: a man getting smaller, usually against his will and usually slowly enough to feel every inch. See what gay shrinking stories are.
Growth: the other direction, a man who keeps getting bigger.
Aware and unaware: whether the giant knows the tiny is there. An unaware giant walking through a tiny man's world is a whole sub-genre of its own.
Gentle giant: a giant who is careful, protective or tender with his tiny.
Soft vore: a giant swallowing a tiny whole, with no harm done. It's the edgiest corner of G/T and not for everyone.

What gay G/T fantasies are really about

Size is the setting. The real subject is power and closeness. When one man is sixty feet tall and the other is six inches, every ordinary thing becomes charged: a hand reaching down, a voice that shakes the floor, a pocket, a bedside table, a footstep.

The most common gay G/T scenarios are:

The palm. Being lifted, carried and studied up close. It's the classic G/T image, and it's on the cover of this article for a reason.
The bully cut down to size. A cocky man shrinks and has to look up at everyone he used to push around.
The gentle giant. A huge man who keeps a tiny partner safe in a world that could crush him.
The pocket pet. A tiny man kept in a shirt pocket, a gym bag or a desk drawer, part captive and part companion.
The giant's world. Exploring a bedroom, a desk or a gym at three inches tall, where a sock is a mountain range.
Worship. Muscle, feet and sheer size, adored from below.

Most fans enjoy both ends. You might want to be tiny in one story and the giant in the next, which is one reason G/T is such a broad tag.

Is G/T the same as macrophilia?

Close, but not quite. Macrophilia and microphilia describe an attraction. G/T describes a kind of story or picture. A macrophile reads G/T stories, but so do people who just like the adventure of being tiny in a huge world. You can think of G/T as the genre and macro and micro as the desires that drive it.

It's also different from a plain height kink. A height kink is about real-life tall men. G/T goes far past anything real, to men the size of buildings and men small enough to lose in the bedsheets. If you're interested in the real-world end, size difference kink covers it.

Is G/T normal?

Giants and tiny people are as old as storytelling: Jack and the Beanstalk, Gulliver's Travels, Tom Thumb and the giants of every mythology. Size fans have been sharing stories online since the 1990s, and gay G/T has its own writers, artists and communities. Like any fantasy, it's healthy when it stays between consenting adults. Every character in a ShrinkingMen story is an adult man.

Where to start with gay G/T

ShrinkingMen has been making gay giants and tinies stories, audio and games for years. A few good first steps:

Free, and a classic shrinking story: Shrinking Jock: Shrink Files 1, free
Be the tiny one, in your ears: Giant & Tiny: Fetish Audio 9, £0.99
Be the giant: Your Tiny Pet: Fetish Audio 32, where you wake up to find a three-inch man on your bedside table, £1.49
A gentle giant romance: Tiny Soldier, Big Love: Shrink Files 34, £1.79
The biggest G/T adventure: Size Lodge: Shrink Files 28, £2.29
Step inside it: Land of Size, a 3D game where you can be the giant or the man in his palm, £5.99

You can also browse by side: giants, tiny men, shrinking and growth. For more to read, see where to read gay giant and tiny stories and our list of shrunken man stories.

Frequently asked questions

What does G/T stand for?

G/T stands for giant/tiny. It's a tag for stories, art and fantasies about a giant and a tiny person. It's often written G/t.

What does G/t mean in fan fiction?

The same thing: a story where one character is a giant and another is tiny. Many G/t fan fiction stories are non-sexual, so check the other tags if you're looking for adult stories.

What is gay G/T?

Gay G/T is giants and tinies between men: a giant man and a tiny man, with the size gap shaping the power, the danger and the intimacy between them.

What is the difference between G/T and GTS?

G/T covers any giant and tiny pairing. GTS means giantess and is mostly used in straight size communities.

What do macro and micro mean?

The macro is the giant and the micro is the tiny person. "Macro/micro" is also used for the whole size genre.

Where can I read gay G/T stories?

ShrinkingMen has illustrated gay giants and tinies stories, audio, comics and 3D games, with free titles to start with.