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• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• GAY COD
• KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THIS SECRET LANGUAGE ALLOWED GAY MEN TO COMMUNITE WHEN HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL | © ROBERT V. RUGGIERO / UNSPLASH PARRISH TURNER US BOOKS EDOR 10 MAY 2022 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT IF YOU WERE A GAY MAN LIVG ENGLAND THE MID-20TH CENTURY, YOU MIGHT GREET YOUR IENDS WH ‘HOW BONA TO VARDA YOUR DOLLY OLD EEK.’ THIS SECRET LANGUAGE, OR CRYPTOLECT, SERVED TO HELP THOSE THE GAY MUNY WEED OUT WHO WAS ‘ THE LIFE’ AND WHO WAS NOT. VIEW ALL TRIPS THE CULTURE OF PRI CELEBRAT THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP INDIA TURKEY ICELAND THAILAND GREECE MEXI ECUADOR MOROC EGYPT BALI JAPAN SOUTH AI CROATIA SPA POLARI – A TERM GIVEN TO AN ENGLISH DIALECT THAT B ELEMENTS OF ROMANY, LAT, RHYMG SLANG, CIRC BACKSLANG AND CRIMAL NT – ORIGATED AS FAR BACK AS THE 16TH CENTURY. BY THE 1800S, WAS THE LANGUAGE OF OUTSIRS AND THE DISENANCHISED ENGLAND, AND WAS MOSTLY SPOKEN LONDON’S SOHO NEIGHBOURHOOD. A GAY LIBERATN FRONT MEMBER TAK PART A MONSTRATN 1972 | © CLIVE DIX / SHUTTERSTOCK ITS D AND SECRETIVE NATURE LENDS SELF TO THE LABEL ‘CRYPTOLECT’, OR WHAT THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTNARY LLS “A SECRETIVE LANGUAGE ED TO NFE AND EXCLU OTHERS AND AFFIRM THE CHARACTER AND SOLIDARY OF A MARGALISED SUBCULTURE”. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP “YOU’D BE STANDG THERE AT THE BAR, TALKG TO A GAY IEND, [AND] YOU’D NOTICE THE PERSON NEXT TO HIM MIGHT BE LISTENG. [IF YOU] DIDN’T KNOW WHO THEY WERE, YOU’D JT SLIP TO POLARI,” SAYS ACTOR, DRAG QUEEN AND ACTIVIST BETTE BOURNE A 2014 DISCSN WH THOR STUART FEATHER. BOURNE LEARNED POLARI AS A YOUNG MAN THE 1960S. TO THE SUAL ENGLISH-SPEAKG OBSERVER, WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO INTIFY THAT POLARI SPEAKERS WERE G ENGLISH. SOME MAY HAVE REGNISED THE DIALECT AS PART OF THE EFFEMATE GAY MALE STEREOTYPE, BUT THE ACTUAL MEANGS OF THE WORDS WERE CIPHERABLE TO THE UNIATED. MANY POLARI PHRAS MUNITE PRIVATE MATTERS THAT ONE WOULD RATHER THE TAXI DRIVER NOT PICK UP ON. ‘KERTERVER RTZO SO NANTI ARVA’, FOR STANCE, WOULD DITE THAT THE SPEAKER NNOT HAVE SEX BEE HE HAS AN STI. OR ONE MIGHT SAY ‘PUTTG ON THE DISH’ TO DITE THAT HE HAD PREPARED FOR ANAL SEX. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. “IT WAS MUCH EASIER BEE THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT YOU TALKG ABOUT. YOU’D JT SAY ‘BONA DISH’ [GREAT BUTT] AND ALL THAT,” SAYS BOURNE. “AND PECIALLY IF WAS SEXUAL, YOU DIDN’T WANT THEM TO KNOW WHAT YOU WERE TALKG ABOUT. YOU JT SLIPPED TO WHOUT THKG.” IN THE 1960S, THE BBC RAD SHOW ROUND THE HORNE GAVE MASTREAM BRA A TASTE OF POLARI. CHARACTERS ED PHRAS DURG THE BROADST TO IMPLY THEIR HOMOSEXUALY, AND THE SHOW WAS ABLE TO PICT HAPPY GAY MEN LGHG ALONGSI THE DIENCE, STEAD OF BEG THE BUTT OF THE JOKE. IN ADDN, POLARI SPEAKERS WERE ABLE TO UNRSTAND THE DOUBLE AND TRIPLE NUENDOS THAT WOULD NOT HAVE MA THROUGH CENSORS IF THE JOK HAD BEEN WRTEN PLA ENGLISH. WHILE ROUND THE HORNE DID LEAD TO A SHORT POPULARISATN OF THE LANGUAGE, ULTIMATELY HURT S EXCLIVY. THIS, BED WH THE CRIMALISATN OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTS 1967, LED TO A CLE AGE. KENH WILLIAMS’S ‘ROUND THE HORNE’ GAVE MASTREAM BRA A TASTE OF POLARI | © GHW PRODS / KOBAL / SHUTTERSTOCK “THE YOUNGER GAY MEN WERE KD OF G OUT THE ’70S AND THEY HAD DIFFERENT VALU,” SAYS LGUISTIC REARCHER PL BAKER THE 2018 DOCUMENTARY POLARI – A SHORT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE LOST LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN. “THEY [DIDN’T] WANT TO BE ASSOCIATED WH SECRECY AND HIDG. INSTEAD, THERE ARE THE NCEPTS LIKE GAY PRI AND GAY LIBERATN AND G OUT. AND POLARI IS SEEN AS TO THE TRIMENT OF THOSE THGS.” IN MORE RECENT S, EFFORTS TO PRERVE THE LANGUAGE HAVE SEEN MIXED SUCCS. ARTISTS HAVE CREATED WORKS THAT CELEBRATE POLARI, BUT ORR TO KEEP A LANGUAGE TLY ALIVE, REQUIR ERS. WH THE GROWTH ACCEPTANCE OF LGBTQ INTI, THE NEED FOR SECRECY, AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE E OF POLARI, HAS SHIFTED. POLARI IS NO LONGER SPOKEN DAY TO DAY, BUT DO EXIST ART AND CULTURAL ARTEFACTS. IN 1990, THE CHARY, PROTT AND STREET PERFORMANCE ANISATN THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE FOUND A LONDON CHAPTER AND QUICKLY ADOPTED POLARI AS THE LANGUAGE OF THEIR OFFICIAL CEREMONI, REPLACG LAT. THE SISTERS E DRAG AND RELIG INOGRAPHY THEIR PERFORMANC, SOME OF WHICH VOLVE PARODI OF THE CATHOLIC MASS THEIR IATN RUALS. “IT IS MORE THAN A MYSTIL LANGUAGE, HALF FOTTEN AND ONLY HALF UNRSTOOD,” SCRIBE ANNA LIVIA AND KIRA HALL QUEERLY PHRASED (1997), A BOOK EXPLORG THE WAYS THE LGBTQ MUNY RELAT TO LANGUAGE. “IT IS ALSO THE LANGUAGE OF IRONY AND PARODY, AS ARE THE SISTERS’ CELEBRATNS THEMSELV.” THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE FOUND A LONDON CHAPTER 1990 AND QUICKLY ADOPTED POLARI | © PL BROWN / SHUTTERSTOCK IN 2017, POLARI GARNERED ATTENTN AGA WHEN A TRAEE PRIT ATTEMPTED TO E THE CRYPTOLECT TO “QUEER THE LURGY OF EVENG PRAYER”. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ORDAND’S PLAN WAS TO MONSTRATE THAT THE CHRISTIAN SERVICE ULD BE LIVERED A WAY THAT HONOURED THE CULTURAL SPECIFICY OF THE LGBTQ MUNY DURG LGBT HISTORY MONTH. UNFORTUNATELY, THE PLAN BACKFIRED. MANY CHRISTIANS, GAY AND STRAIGHT ALIKE, WERE MA UNFORTABLE BY THE CHANG THAT TURNED “GLORY BE TO THE FATHER, AND TO THE SON, AND TO THE HOLY SPIR” TO “FABENS BE TO THE AUNTIE, AND TO THE HOMIE CHAVVIE, AND TO THE FANTABULOSA FAIRY”. BEE THIS CHANGE TO THE LURGY WAS NOT APPROVED BY THE CHURCH, A REPRENTATIVE LATER APOLOGISED FOR ANY OFFENCE ED. THE LEGACY OF POLARI HAS EVEN PERATED MASTREAM ENGLISH. IN LONDON, PL BURSTON MANAG THE POLARI LERARY SALON, A SHOWSE FOUND 2007 FOR LGBTQ WRERS AND PERFORMERS. WHILE THE SALON TAK S NAME OM POLARI, PERFORMERS DON’T ACTUALLY SPEAK . BURSTON NOT THE FLUENCE POLARI HAS. “I DON’T THK MOST NTEMPORARY LGBTQ NOVELISTS ARE NSCLY DRAWG ON POLARI AS A LANGUAGE,” HE TELLS CULTURE TRIP. “IT TENDS TO APPEAR MORE HISTORIL FICTN, E.G. THE WORK OF JAKE ARNOTT OR NEIL BARTLETT. BUT AS WH MANY DIALECTS, THERE IS A LEGACY – ELEMENTS OF THE LANGUAGE THAT HAVE ENTERED MON CURRENCY. WORDS LIKE ‘NAFF’ OR ‘ZHOOSH’, FOR EXAMPLE. PEOPLE E THEM WHOUT NECSARILY KNOWG THAT THEY WERE ONCE PART OF THIS UNRGROUND D LANGUAGE.” POLARI’S FLUENCE N STILL BE SEEN WORDS SUCH AS ‘DRAG’, ‘KIKI’ AND ‘MP’. IN POLARI, ‘MP’ MEANS ‘EXCSIVE OR SHOWY OR AFFECTG MANNERISMS OF THE OPPOSE SEX’, AND TODAY THE TERM IS ED TO REFER TO MANY FORMS OF THEATRICS THAT LEAN TO THE EXTREME, SUCH AS DRAG PERFORMANC. SOME DRAG QUEENS E POLARI TERMS THEIR PERFORMANC | © NILS JENSEN / SHUTTERSTOCK AS MUNI NTUE TO FORM AROUND LGBTQ INTI, POLARI EXEMPLIFI AN IMPORTANT MOMENT GAY HISTORY. IT WAS A LANGUAGE THAT BROUGHT GAY MEN TOGETHER AND NNECTED THEM TO A CULTURAL LEGACY, ONE THAT N STILL BE SEEN SLANG TODAY – EVEN IF MANY SPEAKERS DON’T REALISE .WANT TO LEARN POLARI? CHECK OUT THE POLARI APP OR FANTABULOSA: A DICTNARY OF POLARI AND GAY SLANG. PRI 2019 MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK CY AND THE BEGNGS OF THE TERNATNAL PRI MOVEMENT. TO CELEBRATE, CULTURE TRIP SPOTLIGHTS LGBTQ PNEERS CHANGG THE LANDSPE OF LOVE AROUND THE WORLD. WELE TO THE CULTURE OF PRI. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS
• THE ARE THE SECRET NETFLIX COS THAT CAN UNLOCK HIDN GAY CONTENT
• GAY HANKY COS FOR DUMMI

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO

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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

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KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

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THIS SECRET LANGUAGE ALLOWED GAY MEN TO COMMUNITE WHEN HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL | © ROBERT V. RUGGIERO / UNSPLASH PARRISH TURNER US BOOKS EDOR 10 MAY 2022 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT IF YOU WERE A GAY MAN LIVG ENGLAND THE MID-20TH CENTURY, YOU MIGHT GREET YOUR IENDS WH ‘HOW BONA TO VARDA YOUR DOLLY OLD EEK.’ THIS SECRET LANGUAGE, OR CRYPTOLECT, SERVED TO HELP THOSE THE GAY MUNY WEED OUT WHO WAS ‘ THE LIFE’ AND WHO WAS NOT. VIEW ALL TRIPS THE CULTURE OF PRI CELEBRAT THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP INDIA TURKEY ICELAND THAILAND GREECE MEXI ECUADOR MOROC EGYPT BALI JAPAN SOUTH AI CROATIA SPA POLARI – A TERM GIVEN TO AN ENGLISH DIALECT THAT B ELEMENTS OF ROMANY, LAT, RHYMG SLANG, CIRC BACKSLANG AND CRIMAL NT – ORIGATED AS FAR BACK AS THE 16TH CENTURY. BY THE 1800S, WAS THE LANGUAGE OF OUTSIRS AND THE DISENANCHISED ENGLAND, AND WAS MOSTLY SPOKEN LONDON’S SOHO NEIGHBOURHOOD. A GAY LIBERATN FRONT MEMBER TAK PART A MONSTRATN 1972 | © CLIVE DIX / SHUTTERSTOCK ITS D AND SECRETIVE NATURE LENDS SELF TO THE LABEL ‘CRYPTOLECT’, OR WHAT THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTNARY LLS “A SECRETIVE LANGUAGE ED TO NFE AND EXCLU OTHERS AND AFFIRM THE CHARACTER AND SOLIDARY OF A MARGALISED SUBCULTURE”. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP “YOU’D BE STANDG THERE AT THE BAR, TALKG TO A GAY IEND, [AND] YOU’D NOTICE THE PERSON NEXT TO HIM MIGHT BE LISTENG. [IF YOU] DIDN’T KNOW WHO THEY WERE, YOU’D JT SLIP TO POLARI,” SAYS ACTOR, DRAG QUEEN AND ACTIVIST BETTE BOURNE A 2014 DISCSN WH THOR STUART FEATHER. BOURNE LEARNED POLARI AS A YOUNG MAN THE 1960S. TO THE SUAL ENGLISH-SPEAKG OBSERVER, WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO INTIFY THAT POLARI SPEAKERS WERE G ENGLISH. SOME MAY HAVE REGNISED THE DIALECT AS PART OF THE EFFEMATE GAY MALE STEREOTYPE, BUT THE ACTUAL MEANGS OF THE WORDS WERE CIPHERABLE TO THE UNIATED. MANY POLARI PHRAS MUNITE PRIVATE MATTERS THAT ONE WOULD RATHER THE TAXI DRIVER NOT PICK UP ON. ‘KERTERVER RTZO SO NANTI ARVA’, FOR STANCE, WOULD DITE THAT THE SPEAKER NNOT HAVE SEX BEE HE HAS AN STI. OR ONE MIGHT SAY ‘PUTTG ON THE DISH’ TO DITE THAT HE HAD PREPARED FOR ANAL SEX. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. “IT WAS MUCH EASIER BEE THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT YOU TALKG ABOUT. YOU’D JT SAY ‘BONA DISH’ [GREAT BUTT] AND ALL THAT,” SAYS BOURNE. “AND PECIALLY IF WAS SEXUAL, YOU DIDN’T WANT THEM TO KNOW WHAT YOU WERE TALKG ABOUT. YOU JT SLIPPED TO WHOUT THKG.” IN THE 1960S, THE BBC RAD SHOW ROUND THE HORNE GAVE MASTREAM BRA A TASTE OF POLARI. CHARACTERS ED PHRAS DURG THE BROADST TO IMPLY THEIR HOMOSEXUALY, AND THE SHOW WAS ABLE TO PICT HAPPY GAY MEN LGHG ALONGSI THE DIENCE, STEAD OF BEG THE BUTT OF THE JOKE. IN ADDN, POLARI SPEAKERS WERE ABLE TO UNRSTAND THE DOUBLE AND TRIPLE NUENDOS THAT WOULD NOT HAVE MA THROUGH CENSORS IF THE JOK HAD BEEN WRTEN PLA ENGLISH. WHILE ROUND THE HORNE DID LEAD TO A SHORT POPULARISATN OF THE LANGUAGE, ULTIMATELY HURT S EXCLIVY. THIS, BED WH THE CRIMALISATN OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTS 1967, LED TO A CLE AGE. KENH WILLIAMS’S ‘ROUND THE HORNE’ GAVE MASTREAM BRA A TASTE OF POLARI | © GHW PRODS / KOBAL / SHUTTERSTOCK “THE YOUNGER GAY MEN WERE KD OF G OUT THE ’70S AND THEY HAD DIFFERENT VALU,” SAYS LGUISTIC REARCHER PL BAKER THE 2018 DOCUMENTARY POLARI – A SHORT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE LOST LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN. “THEY [DIDN’T] WANT TO BE ASSOCIATED WH SECRECY AND HIDG. INSTEAD, THERE ARE THE NCEPTS LIKE GAY PRI AND GAY LIBERATN AND G OUT. AND POLARI IS SEEN AS TO THE TRIMENT OF THOSE THGS.” IN MORE RECENT S, EFFORTS TO PRERVE THE LANGUAGE HAVE SEEN MIXED SUCCS. ARTISTS HAVE CREATED WORKS THAT CELEBRATE POLARI, BUT ORR TO KEEP A LANGUAGE TLY ALIVE, REQUIR ERS. WH THE GROWTH ACCEPTANCE OF LGBTQ INTI, THE NEED FOR SECRECY, AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE E OF POLARI, HAS SHIFTED. POLARI IS NO LONGER SPOKEN DAY TO DAY, BUT DO EXIST ART AND CULTURAL ARTEFACTS. IN 1990, THE CHARY, PROTT AND STREET PERFORMANCE ANISATN THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE FOUND A LONDON CHAPTER AND QUICKLY ADOPTED POLARI AS THE LANGUAGE OF THEIR OFFICIAL CEREMONI, REPLACG LAT. THE SISTERS E DRAG AND RELIG INOGRAPHY THEIR PERFORMANC, SOME OF WHICH VOLVE PARODI OF THE CATHOLIC MASS THEIR IATN RUALS. “IT IS MORE THAN A MYSTIL LANGUAGE, HALF FOTTEN AND ONLY HALF UNRSTOOD,” SCRIBE ANNA LIVIA AND KIRA HALL QUEERLY PHRASED (1997), A BOOK EXPLORG THE WAYS THE LGBTQ MUNY RELAT TO LANGUAGE. “IT IS ALSO THE LANGUAGE OF IRONY AND PARODY, AS ARE THE SISTERS’ CELEBRATNS THEMSELV.” THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE FOUND A LONDON CHAPTER 1990 AND QUICKLY ADOPTED POLARI | © PL BROWN / SHUTTERSTOCK IN 2017, POLARI GARNERED ATTENTN AGA WHEN A TRAEE PRIT ATTEMPTED TO E THE CRYPTOLECT TO “QUEER THE LURGY OF EVENG PRAYER”. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ORDAND’S PLAN WAS TO MONSTRATE THAT THE CHRISTIAN SERVICE ULD BE LIVERED A WAY THAT HONOURED THE CULTURAL SPECIFICY OF THE LGBTQ MUNY DURG LGBT HISTORY MONTH. UNFORTUNATELY, THE PLAN BACKFIRED. MANY CHRISTIANS, GAY AND STRAIGHT ALIKE, WERE MA UNFORTABLE BY THE CHANG THAT TURNED “GLORY BE TO THE FATHER, AND TO THE SON, AND TO THE HOLY SPIR” TO “FABENS BE TO THE AUNTIE, AND TO THE HOMIE CHAVVIE, AND TO THE FANTABULOSA FAIRY”. BEE THIS CHANGE TO THE LURGY WAS NOT APPROVED BY THE CHURCH, A REPRENTATIVE LATER APOLOGISED FOR ANY OFFENCE ED. THE LEGACY OF POLARI HAS EVEN PERATED MASTREAM ENGLISH. IN LONDON, PL BURSTON MANAG THE POLARI LERARY SALON, A SHOWSE FOUND 2007 FOR LGBTQ WRERS AND PERFORMERS. WHILE THE SALON TAK S NAME OM POLARI, PERFORMERS DON’T ACTUALLY SPEAK . BURSTON NOT THE FLUENCE POLARI HAS. “I DON’T THK MOST NTEMPORARY LGBTQ NOVELISTS ARE NSCLY DRAWG ON POLARI AS A LANGUAGE,” HE TELLS CULTURE TRIP. “IT TENDS TO APPEAR MORE HISTORIL FICTN, E.G. THE WORK OF JAKE ARNOTT OR NEIL BARTLETT. BUT AS WH MANY DIALECTS, THERE IS A LEGACY – ELEMENTS OF THE LANGUAGE THAT HAVE ENTERED MON CURRENCY. WORDS LIKE ‘NAFF’ OR ‘ZHOOSH’, FOR EXAMPLE. PEOPLE E THEM WHOUT NECSARILY KNOWG THAT THEY WERE ONCE PART OF THIS UNRGROUND D LANGUAGE.” POLARI’S FLUENCE N STILL BE SEEN WORDS SUCH AS ‘DRAG’, ‘KIKI’ AND ‘MP’. IN POLARI, ‘MP’ MEANS ‘EXCSIVE OR SHOWY OR AFFECTG MANNERISMS OF THE OPPOSE SEX’, AND TODAY THE TERM IS ED TO REFER TO MANY FORMS OF THEATRICS THAT LEAN TO THE EXTREME, SUCH AS DRAG PERFORMANC. SOME DRAG QUEENS E POLARI TERMS THEIR PERFORMANC | © NILS JENSEN / SHUTTERSTOCK AS MUNI NTUE TO FORM AROUND LGBTQ INTI, POLARI EXEMPLIFI AN IMPORTANT MOMENT GAY HISTORY. IT WAS A LANGUAGE THAT BROUGHT GAY MEN TOGETHER AND NNECTED THEM TO A CULTURAL LEGACY, ONE THAT N STILL BE SEEN SLANG TODAY – EVEN IF MANY SPEAKERS DON’T REALISE .WANT TO LEARN POLARI? CHECK OUT THE POLARI APP OR FANTABULOSA: A DICTNARY OF POLARI AND GAY SLANG. PRI 2019 MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK CY AND THE BEGNGS OF THE TERNATNAL PRI MOVEMENT. TO CELEBRATE, CULTURE TRIP SPOTLIGHTS LGBTQ PNEERS CHANGG THE LANDSPE OF LOVE AROUND THE WORLD. WELE TO THE CULTURE OF PRI. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

Halper wr How to be Gay. )The need to navigate one's inty through different social suatns, mixed wh the sire for regnn, has led gay men (and women, obvly, but this article is foced on the male si of this phenomenon) to velop subtle, often wordls methods of munitn wh others the of the systems have been historilly ed to broadst sexual sir, like the hanky , which saw s peak age the 1970s and '80s. In Gay New York, Gee Chncey c red neckti as one of the major "fairy" signifiers of the 1890s, and the 1930s there was "practilly a homosexual monopoly" on dark brown and gray sue sho the 1930s.

Physil mannerisms,, why do gay men ntue to create and cultivate the systems of mostly non-verbal munitn wh each other? I thk a lot of has to do wh the fact that gayns don't e wh hered physil tras or other visible intifiers on the body; we're forced to create our own. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.

Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. Nonscript language ed between gays who are partially out of the closet, to avoid spicn. Mutual unrstandg that semi-closeted gays who are out to each other do their bt to nceal the sexual orientatn of the other, or, at the very least, do not force the other out of the closet.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

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Gay #1: Shame.

NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY

Gay #2: Nope, and that's the worst part, isn't the gay unwrten, unspoken of homosexuals that any homosexual is willg to have sexual relatns wh any other homosexual, regardls of how attractive he or she is. This may be due to the fact that are smaller amounts of homosexuals than heterosexuals the human populatn, so they "take what they n get.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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If you were a gay man livg England the mid-20th century, you might greet your iends wh ‘How bona to varda your dolly old eek. ’ This secret language, or cryptolect, served to help those the gay muny weed out who was ‘ the life’ and who was not.

View Trip “You’d be standg there at the bar, talkg to a gay iend, [and] you’d notice the person next to him might be listeng. Some may have regnised the dialect as part of the effemate gay male stereotype, but the actual meangs of the words were cipherable to the uniated. Characters ed phras durg the broadst to imply their homosexualy, and the show was able to pict happy gay men lghg alongsi the dience, stead of beg the butt of the joke.

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This, bed wh the crimalisatn of homosexual acts 1967, led to a cle age. “The younger gay men were kd of g out the ’70s and they had different valu, ” says lguistic rearcher Pl Baker the 2018 documentary Polari – A Short Documentary About the Lost Language of Gay Men.

Instead, there are the ncepts like gay pri and gay liberatn and g out. Many Christians, gay and straight alike, were ma unfortable by the chang that turned “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spir” to “Fabens be to the Auntie, and to the Homie Chavvie, and to the Fantabulosa Fairy”. As muni ntue to form around LGBTQ inti, Polari exemplifi an important moment gay history.

It was a language that brought gay men together and nnected them to a cultural legacy, one that n still be seen slang today – even if many speakers don’t realise to learn Polari? Check out the Polari app or Fantabulosa: A Dictnary of Polari and Gay Slang.

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Com Out As Gay. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen jt me out as gay...

A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments.