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• GAY PEOPLE MYANMAR HAVE ADOPTED A SECRET LANGUAGE
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GAY PEOPLE MYANMAR HAVE ADOPTED A SECRET LANGUAGE

Wh an electn around the rner (featurg the untry’s first openly gay ndidate), activists Myanmar will soon be prented wh a renewed set of policymakers wh whom reform n be pursued. Elsewhere, however, there are some more worryg s, such as Bnei’s near-stalment of the ath penalty for homosexualy, public officials spoutg anti-LGBT vrl Indonia and Sgapore’s high urt quashg an attempt to crimalise male same-sex relatns. This realy was ma clear followg the highly publicised suici of 26-year-old gay librarian, Kyaw Z W, who took his life June 2019 after beg forcibly outed and bullied by his lleagu.

Asia | Aygay angslayTheir slang n help protect them om abeWEDNESDAY HAS jt turned to Thursday Yangon, Myanmar’s biggt cy, and pleasure-seekers are on the prowl a glzy neighbourhood. A dialect of Burme spoken by gay and transgenr people Myanmar, bansaka, meang slang, volv swchg vowels wh words (ffee, a loan word om English, be keefaw) and givg new meang to Burme words.

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Gay and transgenr Burme swch to bansaka when they want to gossip about somebody nearby. ”In private, gay people ploy bansaka as a sign of affectn and vent new words and even gtur to enterta each other.

To those the know, the hand gture therefore means “I’ve had enough, stop” and sometim “Stop talkg” 90% of Burme are Buddhist, and many of them believe that beg gay or transgenr is punishment for sexual ss mted a past life. LGBT people are seen as morally rpt, a view which is bolstered by lonial-era laws that still crimalise homosexual sex. ” He says that gog solo v gay men and transgenr women learn bansaka at work, the few jobs open to them: spir mediumship, hairdrsg, make-up and floristry.