Swardspeak: The Colorful Language of the Filipo Gay Communy

Contents:

• GAY SLANG
• GAY DICTNARY SPANISH
• GAY
• HOW DO YOU SAY "GAY" SPANISH?
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH-SPANISH DICTNARY
• HOW TO SAY GAY SPANISH
• SWARDSPEAK: THE COLORFUL LANGUAGE OF THE FILIPO GAY COMMUNY
• HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY SPANISH

GAY SLANG

Although most s appears as the idm “ la acera enente” (is om the oppose siwalk), several dictnari as the Mart and Leon, appears as a term to pot to homosexual or effemate man. The effemacy men do not necsarily imply homosexualy, however the exprsn has been ed as a phemism for homosexual man, as an sult agast homosexual men or who uld be homosexual, and to cricize the lack of manhood.

GAY DICTNARY SPANISH

Afemado is one of the terms that shows that behd the homophobia is the machismo, sce exprs how negative is to be like a woman, or show some of s characteristics. Although is not a well-known word and prciple seemed a lolism (sce seems to be ed by the heterosexual men Andalia to refer to a homosexual the closet), the first reference was found the 50s Mexi, the 70s Colombia and Spa the e of flower nam as a phemism or as an sult is also found other languag such as English, wh terms like Daisy, Pansy and Buttercup, whereas Spa the e of generic word “flor” (flower) and s variatns is more equent to pot homosexuals.

GAY

Word ed Venezuela to refer to gay or effemate man, probably related to the fact that there they name “Argolla” to hoop earrgs, which are often associated wh women.

Keep md that the Roman Empire the Greek homosexual nstctn system, teacher-pupil, beme the master-slave system, which socially allows men sodomize his slav, and generally, homosexual behavr whenever was active (top anal terurse).

HOW DO YOU SAY "GAY" SPANISH?

There are two possible explanatns for the orig of the slang, on the one hand there are those who say that om the u bris peach or aprit, which is very easy to open, related to the alleged ease wh which gay men put their butts to be fucked.

Although generally appli to the ic, grotque, absurd, funny, etc., relat to homosexualy by the issue we discsed the term Maricón, about the stereotype of sissy, an effemate man, harmls and wh which make fun at his expense.

recent term ed Pe belongg to the LGBT slang, to refer to a kd of gay that a certa sector nsirs “more morn”, discreet, mascule, who n be active (top) anal terurse, as opposed to the feme homosexual, transvte, borrg transsexualy, always passive (bottom) sex, crazy, and probably lookg for mostaceros. Tracg the orig of this exprsn we have met wh a gome story, que mon unfortunately, foced on ternalized homophobia and sexual sire. Homophobic and probably wh sexual nflicts had fondns for walkg by the famo Kenedy Park, place chosen for cisg and lubric als for faggots, transvt and htlers of the Pevian pal.

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH-SPANISH DICTNARY

It was not known more of that guy, but over time began to e the term “B chola” by alertg each other that some homophobic people was g closer and that, therefore, they should act wh discretn to avoid problems. From here, there was a semantic leap by which the word B was ed to refer to a type of gay men, more discreet, more mascule, and more morn, which we referred at the begng.

We have also found relatnship between Cabro and female prostutn, as other ocsns the female prostutn has been the source of many terms and exprsns agast gay men.

Another orig may be the meang has Mexi, where is ed as synonym for idt, silly, etc., negative characteristics of men, attributed to homosexuals by the mere fact of been homosexuals. the word Can appears the poem by Feri García Lor “Oda a Walt Whman” endg wh a seri of words, or rather sults, we supposed ed to pot gay men of the time: “Faeri Norteaméri, pájaros la Habana, jotos Méji, sarasas Cádiz, aps Sevilla, ns Madrid, floras Alinte, alaidas Portugal”.

HOW TO SAY GAY SPANISH

So, the term Can would be another se which there has been a semantic leap of the negative characteristics of some men to gay men, by the mere fact of beg, as has happened wh other words such as Palomo and Pato.

term for gay men ed Bolivia, probably related to karaoke bars, but we do not know if is related wh homosexualy for beg a ls mascule activy for a particular sector of the untry, or for the karaoke bars type of dience Bolivia, full of gay people. Into one appears as jt homosexual man, another as old homosexual man, but others, as Cela or Card dictnari, appears as a middle-aged gay man wh money. It seems the term is associated wh another gay slang term, well known, which is Chapero, rived om Chapista, wh slang meang of htler, and wh the lerally meang of person who works wh metal sheets, a panel beater.

SWARDSPEAK: THE COLORFUL LANGUAGE OF THE FILIPO GAY COMMUNY

Beg Cásra amarga, is a rogatory idm ed to pot homosexual or effemate man, probably bee is generally applied, faiar form, to people of very advanced ias or nghty and brave, makg a semantic leap to homosexual man pecially if he is an activist.

Although the DRAE f as “homosexual male engag prostutn, ” the Chapero may be homosexual or not, but generally boasts to be straight.

the word Chongo Lat Ameri has many meangs, but the more tertg for om the Argente Lunfardo, and has the meang of homosexual men wh top/active role anal terurse.

HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY SPANISH

By the time there was a semantic leap and the word Chongo acquired the meang of lover Paraguay, brothel Pe and Ecuador, where also has the meang of meetg or funny and sndalo act (as an y), as well as the top/active man homosexual relatnship, as we have already said, Argenta. Cola would be the reverse of Lo (crazy, rogatory way to ll effemate homosexuals), as a way of talkg , as occurs other jargons related to crime, as the French Verlan. In addn, the two untri and nowadays, Cola is slang for the ass, however, another explanatn, such as the relatnship of the tail wh the penis, should not be disrd sce other languag such as the Danish, the word Svan means tail and is a slang for the penis and is also slang for homosexual man.

Word of Mapuche orig, giv s name to a type of th reed and which is also ed wh the sense of agile, skny, wimpy, weak, etc., so is possible that there has been the ual semantic leap om negative characteristics of some men to all gay people, by the mere fact of beg. Perhaps the most famo reference of this ntemptuo slang of homosexual man is that of Feri García Lor his “O to Walt Whman” (1929) wh his “Floras Alinte“. But whout neglectg the tradnal relatnship of flowers wh the feme and the e of flower nam as slang for homosexual men, such as “Amapolo” Spanish or “Pansy” the English language, is possible that this slang had s orig meangs and of the word flora that go back, at least, to the prev century.

Flora, bis referrg to the plant world and the poetic work of a wrer, has also been synonymo wh tenr, soft, etc., and so we fd a publitn of 1868-1869 entled “Los Borbon en Pelota” (Naked Bourbons) a satiril and pornographic work signed by the psdonym SEM and attributed, not whout discsn, to the Bécquer brothers, which was clud a popular song that suated the homosexualy of the Kg nsort Francis Asís Borbón that said th:. Tenrns, softns, smoothns, general, are characteristics socially attributed to women sce ancient tim and that turn to sults directed agast the men we would today ll homosexuals, agast those who uld be for their effemacy or agast any man you want to sult highlightg his ltle manhood. is the most universal and ternatnally way to appot homosexual men, that is, men who show clatn towards erotic and emotnal relatnship wh dividuals of the same sex.

It is an English loan that has s orig the Provenl word “gai” that means happy and rasl, and related to homosexualy, began to ed to appot male prostut. Over time and rponse to the term “homosexual”, turned to pathology, the word gay was chosen by the LGBT muny to refer to themselv, stripped of s negative nnotatns.