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

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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.

4 - SEXUALY AS INTY: GAY AND LBIAN LANGUAGE

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.

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.