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THE FETS AND JABS OF POLARI, BRA’S GAY SLANG
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As a young and troverted man on the gay scene, I often found this volume of gossip to be dizzyg and overwhelmg. A gay man was named by bg the Polari words for man and woman together to omee-palone, whereas a lbian was the reverse orr—palone-omee.
There’s a nflatn of genr and sexualy here which om some later perspectiv might be seen as problematic—to say that a gay man is lerally a man-woman keys to negative stereotyp about gay men as effemate or women trapped men’s bodi. ” She-g is one of the aspects of Polari that has survived to more recent s, and the practice was so pervasive at a particular bar on Canal Street Manchter’s Gay Village that a “She-box” was stalled a few years ago, ak to a “Swear-box, ” where patrons would have to put a few s if they she’d someone, wh the proceeds beg donated to chary.
To an extent this may have been wishful thkg—for many Polari speakers the ial partner would be a butch man who did not intify as gay, the Great Dark Man of Quent Crisp’s fantasi. When gay men e she on themselv and their iends, are they parodyg women a way that borrs on offensive? Are they simply plic their own opprsn by adoptg language and labels that are ed homophobic ways, and then g that opprsive language on their enemi, knowg will hurt them even more?
GAY SLANG
* scottish slang for gay *
We uld argue that they were a product of their time, but after s of Gay Liberatn, she is still ed by (some) gay men.
GAY STLAND
Tra sometim, but not always, dited a mascule man who might not have intified as gay and would have been likely to have taken the “serter” role sex.
GAY BRA GLOSSARY
However, tra uld also be a statn on the way towards a more tablished gay inty. Internalized homophobia or jt pla nasts might make the tra attack their sexual partner or mand money om them, hence the term rough tra, although this term uld also refer more generally to workg-class sual male partners.
Quent Crisp, spe beg a mp gay man, did not really e Polari his tobgraphi, although the televised dramatizatn of The Naked Civil Servant he do refer to roughs—aggrsively mascule workg-class men who disguised their attractn to other men through harassment: “Some roughs are really queer and some queers are really rough. : The Story of Polari, Bra’s Secret Gay Language by Pl Baker, published by Reaktn Books Ltd. Buftie - Homosexual ("Aye, ah'm a fuck' buftie!
Flamer - a homosexual, om flamg homosexual. Harry hoofter- rhymg slang for "poofter" a rogatory term for a homosexual man. jobby jabber - a gay man (rogatory slur).