The TckNet UK Drivers RoundTable • View topic - Gay men g lymm servic

Contents:

• GAYD UK
• GAY FMGAY FM
• GAY DATG UNED KGDOM
• GAY RAD STATNS
• THE BT GAY VILLAG IN THE UNED KGDOM FOR FABULO QUEER FUN! ??
• GAY RAD STATNS LNCH SERVIC CARDIFF

GAYD UK

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Gayd (aka Gayd Rad UK) is the world's biggt gay rad statn. Gayd is a rad statn for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny the Uned Kgdom, broadst on 88.

Gay men are bilgual. Even entire vernaculars were formed, like Polari, which fed Cockney and Romani to create a cryptolect that was exclively tuned to the ears of gay days, much of the Wt, safety exists beyond the shadows.

But a send language of sorts is still ed, even as technology mocratis and digis gay life; on Grdr, terms unfaiar to the straights are exchanged the qut for a hook-up (or perhaps somethg more). Siar words are ckled on Gay Twter, and the barbed judgg procs of RuPl's Drag Race. It’s also prent the top nav of Homo, a menswear brand that is unrervedly queer purpose, but not always appearance.

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Or perhaps not so of Homo’s llab wh Tom of Fland, signed by illtrator This Is AmLogan Jackson"I like the layers of sexual humour the brand, but that's not what the brand rts on, " says Daniel DuGoff, a voluble DC transplant NYC, and Homo's founr. "It's layered, and 's more gratifyg to me when people don't necsarily thk 'that's a gay brand'.

But wh Homo 's like, ‘oh, that's ol, why is there a gas statn motif?

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’ Then you realise, oh 's gay.

" Homo self is shorthand for 'Homm Oil Company', a remix of the origal name of a cha of gas statns his fay once 's venture is ed the end product of much layerg.

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But the signer didn't pluck Homo om the ether, nor is the illtrated oil n (a recurrent theme the workwear-tged clothg) whout meang. HomoThe brand, wh s baseball ps and easy-to-wear summer T-shirts, is actually on s send wd. "I never thought, ‘Homo is gog to be X’.

"We had a gas statn cha that dissolved when I was a ltle kid, and was lled Homo.

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There are all the queer people my extend fay and ’s this si thg that we wk and nudge about but nobody’s done anythg wh , and I thought all of the thgs I wanna do make sense if was lled Homo.

"While dozens of gas statns operated unr the name om the Thirti till the early Neti, "nothg was properly registered beyond land e stuff" says DuGoff, and Homo 2.

There was no signer or sign guy for the origal Homo, so we went through box of photos that belonged to her and snned hundreds of shots of the old gas statns, and then the nng prts of the oil was actually signed by my nt and was amed my parents' hoe, so I took that, and went om there. " Though the fay's petrol pumps have long n dry, Homo is still very much a fay bs; grandma even rponds personally to the brand's marketg email blasts. HomoBygone Amerina is a clear reference Homo.