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IS CAMP JT FOR GAY MEN?
* camp in gay culture *
” Yet, readg Sontag’s say, seems that even she was at tim elud by the ceptive simplicy of the Nyong'o embrac a mp sensibily her flamboyant stume for the Met Gala (Cred: Getty Imag)The first English fn of the term, which appeared a 1909 edn of the Oxford English Dictnary, nformed to popular, ntemporary notns of mp: “ostentat, exaggerated, affected, theatril; effemate or homosexual; pertag to, characteristic of, homosexuals…” If not synonymo wh stereotypil male homosexualy, was, as per one of the OED fns, strongly associated wh .
Gay culture is not jt an affectatn. It is an exprsn of difference through style — a way of rvg out space for an alternate way of life. * camp in gay culture *
It was Wil’s stigmatised body, ” he tells BBC Digned, “whose trials for ‘gross cency’ 1895 typified the ‘homosexual’, which provid a grammar of mp as a twisted form of atheticism that largely (if directly) meant sexual viance.