While hazg the lennials durg a meetg today, several of them nfsed to not knowg the basic lexin of gay slanguage. This is for them and everyone else who needs a reher.
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F (SLANG) - ORIG AND HISTORIL USAGE - AS GAY SLANG
Are we gay people? I n fd ltle evince of this on the ter, but sce gay culture is passed down through hearsay and gossip, I’m cludg this.
Some archivist or queer historian may rroborate or squash this ia, one I heard om a gay elr and pass on to you — that “queer” was actually the word preferred by the first wave of queens, h om the closet, sweatg word-of-mouth disthequ that migrated through the cy. Acrdg to the ter, “queer” first beme an antigay slur durg the trials of Osr Wil.