From Closet Talk to PC Termology : Gay Speech and the Polics of Visibily

Contents:

• GAY BRA GLOSSARY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• CATEGORY:ENGLISH GAY SLANG
• FROM CLOSET TALK TO PC TERMOLOGY : GAY SPEECH AND THE POLICS OF VISIBILY

GAY BRA GLOSSARY

Wolfenn Report - aka the Report of the Departmental Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn published 1957 after a number of proment dividuals cludg John Gielgud, Alan Turg, Lord Montagu of Beli, Michael Pt-Rivers and Peter Wilblood were tried and nvicted of homosexual offenc. Ntie – bear – benr – bottom – bum band – bum chum – bumr – bummer – butch – butt hugger – rpet muncher – tcher – chaser – chickenhawk – chicken hawk – cub – drag kg – dyke – fag – faggot – Fairy – femme – flamer – u – fudge packer – gay – gaylord – girliend – GLBT – hasbian – homo – homo thug – the closet – jobby jabber – lemon – lez – lipstick lbian – mge muncher – mo – nellie – nelly – Peter Puffer – pole smoker – poof – Poofter – power top – puff – queer – shirt lifter – sister – versatile – wasbian. ClonThe standardised gay male look In the 70's the look clud a motache, mcle shirt/flannel shirt and Levi's The late 80's - 90's clud short hair, long siburns, whe tee-shirt, shorts/jeans and Doc boots wh grey socks.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

FluffyTerm ed by lbians Meang a woman is turned on In gay male leather circl, this meant term is meant for someone who isn't to the drs Deriv om the scriptn of someone who wears bulky or "fluffy" sweaters A putdown om a leather man might be: "You look awfully fluffy tonight". HodophobiaNot to be nfed wh “homophobia, ” which is an aversn or hostily to, disda for, or fear of gay sexual orientatn or gay people, “hodophobia” actually refers to an irratnal or disproportnate fear of travelg.

HomophobiaIrratnal fear of gay people and of homosexualy Gee Weberg, thor of Society and the Healthy Homosexual, ed this word the early 1970's It filled a need for a gay people at that time bee, one word, eloquently nveyed the ia that was gay-bashers, not gays themselv, who had a problem.

Laddie or LassieA term ed to intify children wh gay parents The term began wh a negative nnotatn assumg that the child would also be gay or lbian It has been reclaimed as an affectnate term and a way of children beg able to '' or intify each other public.

CATEGORY:ENGLISH GAY SLANG

LbianA gay woman The ancient Greek poet Sappho lived on the island of Lbos As Sappho beme known for her poems celebratg love between women, the term lbian changed s primary meang om 'one who liv on Lbos' to 'a woman like Sappho and her followers'.

QueenAn effemate gay man Gay men who aspire to royalty will be disappoted to learn that this age of the word queen is only a distant relative of the queen who ss on a throne It is lguistilly closer to queen - a disparagg word for an unpleasant or promiscuo woman, datg to the sixteenth century. TwkTwk is a gay slang term ed to refer to a young (18 to early 20s) homosexual man wh certa outward characteristics, such as an effemate manner, a th build, no body or facial hair, which all ntribute to a youthful look.

FROM CLOSET TALK TO PC TERMOLOGY : GAY SPEECH AND THE POLICS OF VISIBILY

Many untri around the world have their own versn of queer slang, om Brish gay slang rived om the rhymg slang Polari to beki – the Philipp’ queer language that borrows om a slew of sourc, cludg pop culture, Japane, Spanish, and the untry’s lol languag. Although is a term ed the 80s gay bashg, Anal buckaneer refers to the active (top) role sexual relatns, that some sense is mascule and virile, and is opposed, for example, to Ass boy (one man rced to a sgle part of his body, the ass, ma available to anyone who wants to fuck him), that the same way serve to sult gays but would tablish a different tegory, bee a boy is ls manly than a bucneer or a band. Dpe as faggot is the top as the bottom, sults let read between the l, that the classil systems of homosexual behavr, the teacher-pupil and master-slave, still force today, so exprsns for top gay are ls rogatory than the exprsns for bottoms.

+Beard LadyThe leral translatn of the exprsn Beard lady would be Miss Beard, and is an exprsn of the gay jargon ed to name women ed by homosexual men as rercement of masculy to avoid spicns about their homosexualy. Female prostutn is also prent at the orig of many sults for homosexuals, pecially wh passive sexual role, bee many of the terms, related to prostutn, for attackg women, are ed to sult gay men bee they are nsired as the worst kd of women.