Polari - Brish gay slang

Contents:

• GAY BRA GLOSSARY
• GAY DICTNARY ENGLISH
• REDISVERG POLARI: HOW THIS GAY DIALECT IS A MAP OF FOTTEN SUBCULTUR
• POLARI: THE LOST LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

GAY BRA GLOSSARY

The street ns parallel to the Rochdale Canal and me to s own as an tablished gay district the 1990's wh the onset of greater tolerance for gay life and bs, pecially Manchter.

The 2017 Policg and Crime Act implements what is known rmally as the "Alan Turg Law" which pardoned 50, 000 men who for homosexual acts that were no longer nsired offenc. Alan Turg Statue - a statue of Alan Turg Sackville Park near the Gay Village Manchter honours the mathematil geni who helped to crack the German Enigma s World War II. Wolfenn Report - aka the Report of the Departmental Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn published 1957 after a number of proment dividuals cludg John Gielgud, Alan Turg, Lord Montagu of Beli, Michael Pt-Rivers and Peter Wilblood were tried and nvicted of homosexual offenc.

GAY DICTNARY ENGLISH

Ntie – bear – benr – bottom – bum band – bum chum – bumr – bummer – butch – butt hugger – rpet muncher – tcher – chaser – chickenhawk – chicken hawk – cub – drag kg – dyke – fag – faggot – Fairy – femme – flamer – u – fudge packer – gay – gaylord – girliend – GLBT – hasbian – homo – homo thug – the closet – jobby jabber – lemon – lez – lipstick lbian – mge muncher – mo – nellie – nelly – Peter Puffer – pole smoker – poof – Poofter – power top – puff – queer – shirt lifter – sister – versatile – wasbian.

REDISVERG POLARI: HOW THIS GAY DIALECT IS A MAP OF FOTTEN SUBCULTUR

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Although is a term ed the 80s gay bashg, Anal buckaneer refers to the active (top) role sexual relatns, that some sense is mascule and virile, and is opposed, for example, to Ass boy (one man rced to a sgle part of his body, the ass, ma available to anyone who wants to fuck him), that the same way serve to sult gays but would tablish a different tegory, bee a boy is ls manly than a bucneer or a band. Dpe as faggot is the top as the bottom, sults let read between the l, that the classil systems of homosexual behavr, the teacher-pupil and master-slave, still force today, so exprsns for top gay are ls rogatory than the exprsns for bottoms.

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POLARI: THE LOST LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

+Batis slang for homosexual boy, probably bee the early 17th century was ed to name the guys who prostuted of the most prolific sourc to sult male homosexuals was male prostutn.

+Beard LadyThe leral translatn of the exprsn Beard lady would be Miss Beard, and is an exprsn of the gay jargon ed to name women ed by homosexual men as rercement of masculy to avoid spicns about their homosexualy. Female prostutn is also prent at the orig of many sults for homosexuals, pecially wh passive sexual role, bee many of the terms, related to prostutn, for attackg women, are ed to sult gay men bee they are nsired as the worst kd of women.