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Contents:
- THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
- 12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
- GAY SLANG 101
- THE GUYSEXUAL’S CY DICTNARY FOR GAY SLANG. WHAT’S THE SHELF LIFE OF A CLEARANCE SALE CLOTHG?THE GUYSEXUAL’S CY DICTNARY FOR GAY SLANG. WHAT’S THE SHELF LIFE OF A CLEARANCE SALE CLOTHG?
THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
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12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
* knotted gay slang *
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GAY SLANG 101
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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.
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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. 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. Lesch scribed nti as “agg or middle-aged homosexuals, offtim effemate character” and people of “settled meanor who utns agast temperate acts”.