Leave the Gay Sandwich Alone

Contents:

• GAY SANDWICH
• JIMMY JOHN’S REVEALS GAY SANDWICH FOR NEXT YEAR’S PRI
• WHAT DO YOU MEAN, “GAY FOOD”?
• SLANG FOR GAY SANDWICH
• MARKS & SPENCER LNCH ‘GAY SANDWICH’ RABOW-LOURED BOX FOR PRI AND ’S DIVID OPN
• 'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG EARNT'S' GAY EXPLAED

GAY SANDWICH

If gay life was a giant ballroom (and kd of is), kky leathermen have been lgerg the back, the shadows, for generatns. Long before hookup apps like Grdr and Scff, gay and bisexual men seekg sual sex wore lored handkerchiefs their pant pockets ditg what kd of sex they were seekg and whether they were a domant/top or submissive/bottom.

The lor is pretty extensive and clus var kks and fetish, and is still ed today by gay clothg brands like Nasty Pig and CellBlock 13 — and, obvly, by kky gay men. (Image cred: Alamy)Fifty years ago, the Sexual Offenc Act beme law, crimalisg homosexual acts that took place private between two men over the age of 21.

The secret language beme a kd of verbal wk between gay men Bra durg the early 20th Century – allowg them to hi and to reveal at the same time.

JIMMY JOHN’S REVEALS GAY SANDWICH FOR NEXT YEAR’S PRI

Yet the years when homosexualy was illegal, was a way of munitg public whout riskg arrt – as well as a chance to challenge the stat was a secret language that beme a kd of verbal wk between gay men Bra durg the early 20th Century (Cred: Alamy)Layerg upon layerg of different fluenc ensur that there is no one sgle versn of Polari but many versns – Pl Baker“It was a secret, spoken form of language, ed maly by groups of people who were on the margs of society and associated wh crimaly, ” says Pl Baker, a lguistic history expert at the Universy of Lanster and thor of Fantabulosa: A Dictnary of Polari and Gay Slang. ” Some of the words are what’s been lled ‘backslang' – hair is ‘riah’, and face is ‘eek’ (om ‘ef’) was taken up mic halls, Palarie beme associated wh gay men at the start of the 20th Century.

To make thgs more plited, Baker has seen a few ‘backronyms’, or fns applied after a word’s meang has evolved – such as ‘mp’ as g om ‘Known As Male Prostute’ 1967, the Sexual Offenc Act beme law, crimalisg homosexual acts that took place private between two men over the age of 21 (Cred: Alamy)Polari has s own vobulary for elements that mastream society is not terted – Pl BakerBaker believ Polari is a form of ‘anti-language’ – a term ed by the lguist Michael Halliday 1978 that Baker f as “a language ed by people who are on the ‘outsi’ of mastream society”. “Words relatg to gay sex or evaluatg male bodi – but also monstrat an alternative value system.

“It was sometim tght by olr, more tablished people on the gay scene as a way of iatg newer people to a mp worldview, ” says Baker. “Some gay men ed socially, to make one another lgh, sometim by nductg humoro arguments which volved clever sults Polari.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, “GAY FOOD”?

In se you're straight and/or love yourself too much to sign up for Twter, a buncha gays are mad at a sandwich. News of the bad gay sandwich has spread worldwi thanks to some Brish, gay rage-tweetg, and now thoands of queers om London to Palm Sprgs have taken to Twter to voice their disgt at seeg yet another brand modify and explo queer inti durg our annual memoratn of the Stonewall rts of 1969.

) or bee Marks and Spencer's plan to donate nearly $15, 000 of the sandwich sal to chari that serve LGBTQ+ youth (the retailer generated over $13 billn revenue last year, $15, 000 is nothg), but bee gay sandwich is fe.

I mean, sure, guamole probably don't go wh ban, but as a whe woman, I don't actually know what good food tast like and would easily be overwhelmed by the multisensory experience of a sandwich that boasts two gay sandwich strap you to a chair, make you s like a straight person, and force you to watch Roland Emmerich's Stonewall? Their social media team has jt unveiled ncept photos for their “Gay Sandwich” for Pri 2019 and all we have to say is YAS KWEEN.

SLANG FOR GAY SANDWICH

A report, prted on lavenr paper that smelled like gsg, om Jimmy John’s HQ was sent to shareholrs early this afternoon cg several exampl of “homosexual support” om Fortune 500 bs durg Pri Month. The “anal-ysis” shows that wh the “Gay Sandwich g out of the closet” and an “aggrsively l” marketg strategy “strap-on”, Jimmy John’s is lookg at a “fire” fisl quarter.

In addn to the “Gay Sandwich”, Jimmy John’s will be changg their theme lors om red and black to Rabow. The “Gay Sandwich” will sashay their way to a sparkly non-bary probably vegan Jimmi Jane’s the trendy downtown, but not too downtown, district June 2019.

MARKS & SPENCER LNCH ‘GAY SANDWICH’ RABOW-LOURED BOX FOR PRI AND ’S DIVID OPN

A publicist iend of me asked me if I wanted to morate a panel on gay food, and I agreed to , bee looked like somethg that wouldn’t take much time, I like moratg panels, and the topics of gay inty and food are of tert to me.

Then I saw the prs materials for the panel, which was to be held as part of the lnch of a new gay social app:. Nohels, I thk the topic of LGBT people and our relatnship wh food is soclogilly tertg, and, sce the 15-16 ln Amerins over the age of 18 who self-intify as gay (acrdg to a 2012 Harris Interactive poll), have an timated disposable e of $790 billn, ’s of more than pure amic tert for rtrant operators. It clud Jam Beard Foundatn executive vice print Mchell Davis, whose somethg of an tellectual tan when to thkg and talkg about food; celebry pastry chefs Pichet Ong and Zac Young; SD26 general manager John Fanng; Dale Schnell, executive chef at KITCHN the Out Hotel (obvly targetg a gay market), where the panel discsn was held; and other bloggers, chefs and rtratrs, as well as CEO Michael Belk.

'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG EARNT'S' GAY EXPLAED

That’s not to say we didn’t joke around and keep the nversatn movg, but Zac Young, arguably the most stereotypilly gay man on the panel — cute, kd of flamboyant, a pastry chef — almost immediately steered the nversatn toward topics of inty, stereotyp and misnceptns. On the ntrary, rtrants terg to gay men, particular (the nversatn foced on gay men sce, regrettably, no women were on the panel), tend to serve fort food. Mchell Davis observed that no one had eaten the sandwich before the panel started, and that dited a mostly gay dience sce, he said, gay men don’t tend to eat at gay social functns.