“Do Say Gay: In Yiddish” – J.

Contents:

• GAY DICTNARY YIDDISH
• DO SAY GAY -- YIDDISH! A FIRST FOR LGBTQ LERATURE.
• DO SAY GAY -- YIDDISH! A FIRST FOR LGBTQ LERATURE.
• “DO SAY GAY: IN YIDDISH”
• MAMALOSHN: WHY THE GAY CONNECTN?
• THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

GAY DICTNARY YIDDISH

That might be te for cisgenr or transgenr or genrqueer people, as well as heterosexual or gay or bisexual or asexual people. In the end, Rosen and Branfman cid to “Yiddishize” words wily ed English wherever possible (nonbary be “nisht-tsveyig;” cisgenr, “tsis-mig”) and borrow wholeale other words om English, like genrqueer and gay.

How to say gay Yiddish. Below is the word of our Yiddish Gay Dictnary that we will expand new edns. Highlights of this Gay Dictnary the word feygele, bee some thk is the orig of the word faggot for phoic siary.

DO SAY GAY -- YIDDISH! A FIRST FOR LGBTQ LERATURE.

The meang of ltle bird is not wily ed today but is ed to refer disparaggly to a man who is or uld be gay, havg also the meang of a ltle girl. gay more languag.

gay.

homo. homofil. Gay.

DO SAY GAY -- YIDDISH! A FIRST FOR LGBTQ LERATURE.

homosexuell.

Media Platforms Dign TeamGion, God rt his soul, was the first gay man I ever knew.

“DO SAY GAY: IN YIDDISH”

I didn't know that he was gay -- I was but a lad of ten or twelve when I met him, back the early 1960s -- and as far as I know, Gion, the twentyish son of fay iends, dwelt si the closet all his life. Faygeleh -- I've never heard one fellow tnt another wh "faygeleh" orr to impugn his manhood -- is far too nice a word for that purpose -- and I've overheard this type of tntg all my life (and not bee I'm not a stud-hoss red-blood 100 percent ungay guy, which I almost certaly am, and I will hurt you dare you qutn ). It’s tradnal for the gay muny to gather for bnch before a Pri march durg Pri month, or nachas khoysh Yiddish.

I lived on San Francis’s gayt Castro Street, a munal apartment above the Castro Street Statn, one of many popular gay bars that were muny gatherg spots, pecially on Friday nights. It also spoke to those of who uldn’t hope to ever brg our whole gay selv, let alone our partners, home to the mishpokhe. Dpe the paper’s reputatn as the “addrs of the Jewish people, ” and mors that one of the Sunday illtrated issue’s edors himself was gay, queer Jewish liv were only equently featured on our pag.

He was, that lleague believed, most likely gay. The betiful, fearls life of Jewish butch lbian Helen Hull Jabs, has the pacy to make you feel, the words of gay in Sylvter, “mighty real. “In the last two s, ” she said, “we’ve seen a huge growth of tert Yiddish among gays and lbians.

MAMALOSHN: WHY THE GAY CONNECTN?

“Half the panel was gay.

Even as an affy between gays and Yiddish has bee a mon feature of the secular Yiddish landspe, many the Yiddish-speakg world have followed the velopment wh sealed lips — wh some too shy to ask about and others not wantg to hear the answers.

But even among scholars, the gay-Yiddish nex has prompted wildly different reactns, wh some llg the velopment a dynamic new synthis and others sayg that the “queerg” of Yiddish is a perversn, a basement of a once noble tradn. Ined, ’s every b as plex as the qutn “What mak one gay? Among the early theorists of the gay-Yiddish lk was journalist Alisa Solomon, who, a 1997 article the magaze Davka, ma a se for the ncept of “Queer Yiddishke” by enumeratg a seri of parallels: Both muni, she argued, share a sense of margaly, of rootlsns, of fiance the face of a majory culture.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

A number of those at the Yugntf event echoed Solomon’s sentiments, puttg particular strs on feelgs of placelsns felt by many Jewish gay men and lbians vis-à-vis the anized Jewish world.

In he quoted playwright Tony Khner on the new vogue that Yiddish was enjoyg among young gay Jews. The equatn of gays and Yiddish has not been whout s crics.