On the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offenc Act Bra, Fna Macdonald looks at a gay slang that beme a form of fiance.
Contents:
- GAY BRA GLOSSARY
- GAY DICTNARY ENGLISH
- RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
- DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG
- THE FETS AND JABS OF POLARI, BRA’S GAY SLANG
GAY BRA GLOSSARY
Gay Bra Glossary: see an A-Z glossary of words and phras relatg to gay life Bra om Ace to Wolfenn Report. * gay british slang *
The street ns parallel to the Rochdale Canal and me to s own as an tablished gay district the 1990's wh the onset of greater tolerance for gay life and bs, pecially Manchter.
GAY DICTNARY ENGLISH
Vis our English Gay Dictnary, wh more than 450 exprsns, to know how to say gay English. It is part of our LGBT dictnary wh more than 160... * gay british slang *
Outed - when a lbian, gay, bi or trans person's sexual orientatn is revealed to someone else whout their wh Pri, Greater Manchter Police Mm & Archiv, ManchterP. The 2017 Policg and Crime Act implements what is known rmally as the "Alan Turg Law" which pardoned 50, 000 men who for homosexual acts that were no longer nsired offenc.
Alan Turg Statue - a statue of Alan Turg Sackville Park near the Gay Village Manchter honours the mathematil geni who helped to crack the German Enigma s World War II.
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.
RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
Heavily ed by Brish gays the 1920s bee of anti-homosexual laws, efforts are beg ma to prerve an entirely queer-based slang. * gay british slang *
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. This same phenomenon we have seen today, for example, Lat Ameri prisons, where the transformatn of a gay man a woman may suppose some protectn and even survival. 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. +Ass rairexprsn ed the 80s gay bashg, belongg to the set of sults to gays wh active sexual role, which do not volve a loss of masculy, unlike what happens to passive sexual role gays.
+Assleechexprsn ed the 90s gay bashg, but referred to bottom on, by the difference nuance between, for example, a band and a leech, bee leech is more rogatory than band.
DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG
A film wh many signs to the gay dience, as you n see the ame below, beg an in, which got through censorship, and has several Amy Award nomatns and wng a pair of Goln Glob. +Batis slang for homosexual boy, probably bee the early 17th century was ed to name the guys who prostuted of the most prolific sourc to sult male homosexuals was male prostutn. +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.
THE FETS AND JABS OF POLARI, BRA’S GAY SLANG
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. +Bchwe have already talked on purpose some words and exprsns above, of the relatn of many sults for gay men wh prostutn, both male (see Bat) and female (see Bird).