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- ABOUT: TRA (GAY SLANG) - DBPEDIA
- THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED
- STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
- NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
ABOUT: TRA (GAY SLANG) - DBPEDIA
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Lguists believe that’s how gay slang started, too.
THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED
After beg acquired earlier this month via tra, the Oklahoma Cy Thunr has waived Rudy Gay. * trade gay terminology *
In the Victorian era, male homosexualy wasn’t jt nsired taboo – was illegal. To hi their inti pla sight of other queer people, gay and bisexual men would refer to each other wh nam. Today, “Mary” is still ed as an exprsn or a way to teasgly refer to another gay person.
But the Onle Slang Dictnary c 1960s gay male culture as the earlit known source, particularly rtoonist Joe Johnson’s characters “Miss Thg” and “Big Dick”, which appeared early issu of The Advote.
Gay Slang Terms From The Mid-century To The 70s. Homosexualy remaed illegal across the Uned Stat the mid-twentieth century – that is, until Illois beme the first state to crimalize same-sex relatns 1962. In an act of ristance, unrground gay and lbian bars thrived the 50s and 60s.
STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
In the 60s and 70s, gay men even had a “hanky ” – a system that volved wearg bandanas wh lors that signified whether you were a top, bottom, to BDSM, etc.
One of the most well-known phras to e out of this time is “iend of Dorothy”, which is for a gay man.
Judy Garland, who played Dorothy the film, was also a queer in who patronized gay bars and often surround herself wh queer iends. In the 60s, Lesch was the print of a gay rights anizatn lled the Mattache Society and me up wh the “Sip-In” – a monstratn held at New York Cy bars that banned service to out gay people.
NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
Lesch scribed nti as “agg or middle-aged homosexuals, offtim effemate character” and people of “settled meanor who utns agast temperate acts”. “Fl” is a 50s slang term for a gay person that was popularized by the novel Catcher the Rye. Another siar term, “light the loafers”, is a somewhat rogatory phrase that is ed to scribe someone who acts or appears to be gay.