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From 1720s London to RuPl’s Drag Race, gays have been “motherg” for much longer than you thk.

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From 1720s London to RuPl’s Drag Race, gays have been “motherg” for much longer than you thk. When the song dropped earlier this month, one fan tweeted that s “mother” le was “enough to send my gay heart to overdrive”. When GAY TIMES’ entertament edor Sam Damshenas asked Sarah Michelle Gellar about her passnate LGBTQ+ fanbase at a January lnch event for her new seri Wolf Pack, she psed to ask him: “Can someone please expla ‘mother’ to me?

GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?

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In fact, the term, “has been a key ncept gay muni for s, if not centuri, ” says Pl Baker, Profsor of English Language at Lanster Universy and thor of Fabulosa! : The Story of Polari, Bra’s Secret Gay Language.

Baker pots out that Margaret Clap, a “formidable” 18th-century cishet woman whom we would probably now refer to as an “ally”, was beg lled “Mother” by gay men 1720s London. “She ran a ffee hoe that served as a base for men who had sex wh men – or ‘molli’ 18th-century parlance, ” Baker tells GAY TIMES.

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