Lbian and Gay Male Language Use: A Cril Review of the Lerature on JSTOR

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• GAY LANGUAGE: DEFYG THE STCTURAL LIMS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGEGAY LANGUAGE: DEFYG THE STCTURAL LIMS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGEGAY LANGUAGE: DEFYG THE STCTURAL LIMS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGEGAY LANGUAGE: DEFYG THE STCTURAL LIMS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGEGAY LANGUAGE: DEFYG THE STCTURAL LIMS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• 4 - SEXUALY AS INTY: GAY AND LBIAN LANGUAGE

GAY LANGUAGE: DEFYG THE STCTURAL LIMS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGEGAY LANGUAGE: DEFYG THE STCTURAL LIMS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGEGAY LANGUAGE: DEFYG THE STCTURAL LIMS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGEGAY LANGUAGE: DEFYG THE STCTURAL LIMS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGEGAY LANGUAGE: DEFYG THE STCTURAL LIMS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Wh words like "sha, " "tea, " and "kiki" proment queer culture, sometim feels like 's impossible for straights to unrstand gays... But once upon a time, that was exactly what Brish gays wanted. Called Polari, the gay slang is posed of back slang, circ slang, and broken Yiddish and Italian.

The "secret language" was ed heavily by gays the circ, navy, and theater, and arose out of the need to discs gay matters unr a clever guise, due to homosexual acts beg illegal Bra until the passage of the Sexual Offens Act 1967. Here's some of the amg slang: Basket - the bulge of male genals through clothFantabulos-wonrfulEf - face (backslang) DollyEf - pretty face Chicken - a young guySome Polari words still exist morn gay slang. As gays began to fight for acceptance and rights, they ma a ncentrated effort to remove the Brish society's one-dimensnal view of all gays as beg overly mpy and effemate.

Check out Atlas Obscura pots out, Polari was a great self-performative outlet for Brish gays to not only exprs themselv but also easily intify and n wh fellow memebers of the queer muny. Gay and Lbian Language on JSTOR. Lbian and Gay Male Language Use: A Cril Review of the Lerature on JSTOR.

4 - SEXUALY AS INTY: GAY AND LBIAN LANGUAGE

Far more monly, tert has foced on the lguistic maniftatns of homosexualy. For almost a century, social scientists, cludg soclogists and psychologists as well as lguists, have bated whether homosexuals e language ways that differentiate them om heterosexuals. Debat on whether homosexuals have a distctive language are related to genr two ways.

First, the arguments have tend to be (overtly or vertly) about gay men far more than about lbians.

In scholarship as popular culture, ias about how gay men sound or speak are much more salient and wispread than are ias about how lbians sound or speak.