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THE FETS AND JABS OF POLARI, BRA’S GAY SLANG
* scottish slang for gay *
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.
GAY SLANG
The bt gay bars & dance clubs, gay-rated hotels, gay snas and cise clubs Stland. Reviews, maps & disunts. * scottish slang for gay *
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.
GAY STLAND
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?
GAY BRA GLOSSARY
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?