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Contents:

• HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
• HOW TO SAY I'M GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
• IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY
• GAY DICTNARY AIKAANS
• GAYLE: THE LANGUAGE OF APARTHEID SOUTH AI’S GAY UNRGROUND
• WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY AI?
• AIN GAYS AND LBIANS BAT BIAS
• GAYLE: SOUTH AI’S SECRET GAY LANGUAGE
• THIS SECRET LANGUAGE ALLOWED GAY MEN TO COMMUNITE WHEN HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL

HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG

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Ken Cage extensively explored the language’s history and velopment his 2003 book “Gayle: the language of kks and queens: a history and dictnary of gay language South Ai”. “Moffietaal” n be traced to loured gay muni Cape Town which have a long tradn of queer subcultur datg back to the late 19th century (the word “loured” is ed to scribe people of mixed racial leage South Ai).

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HOW TO SAY I'M GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG

[Ya hey]WelshRwy'n hoywYiddishאיך בין פריילעךSayg I'm gay Asian LanguagLanguageWays to say I'm gayArmenianԵս գեյ եմAzerbaijaniMən maviyəmBengaliআমি সমকামীChe Simplified我是同性恋Che Tradnal我是同性戀Geianმე გეი ვარGujaratiહૂં સમ લીંગીક પુરૂષ છૂHdiमैं समलैंगिक हूंHmongKuv yog gayJapane私は同性愛者ですKannadaನಾನು ಸಲಿಂಗಕಾಮಿKazakhМен геймінKhmerខ្ញុំ​ជា​ខ្ទើយKorean나는 게이다KyrgyzМен гейминLaoຂ້ອຍ​ເປັນ​ເກMalayalamഞാൻ സ്വവർഗ്ഗാനുരാഗിയാണ്Marathiमी समलिंगी आहेMongolianБи ижил хүйстэнMyanmar (Burme)ကျွန်တော်လိင်တူချစ်သူပါNepaliम समलिङ्गी हुँOdiaମୁଁ ସମଲିଂଗୀ ଅଟେPashtoزه همجنس پرست یمPunjabiਮੈਂ ਸਮਲੈਂਗਿਕ ਹਾਂSdhiمان هم جنس پرست آهيانShalaමම සමලිංගිකයෙක්Tajikман гей ҳастамTaநான் ஓரின சேர்க்கையாளர்Teluguనేను స్వలింగసంపర్కుడనుThaiผมเป็นเกย์TurkisheşcselimTurkmenMen geýUrduمیں ہم جنس پرست ہوں۔Uyghurمەن ھەمجىنىسUzbekMen boqolbozmanVietnametôi là người đồng tínhToo many ads and languag?

IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY

Sign up to remove ads and ctomize your list of languagSign UpSayg I'm gay Middle-Eastern LanguagLanguageWays to say I'm gayArabicأنا مثلي الجنسHebrewאני גייKurdish (Kurmanji)Ez gay imPersianمن همجنس گرا هستمSayg I'm gay Ain LanguagLanguageWays to say I'm gayAikaansek is gayAmharicፍናፍንት ነኝChichewande geyiHsaNi ɗan luwaɗi neIgboabụ m nwoke na-amasị nwokeKyarwandaNdi gaySothoke setabaneShonaNdiri ngochaniSomaliwaxaan ahay khaniisSwahiliMimi ni shogaXhosaisabaneYobamo jẹ ọkunr aṣebiaboZuluNggungqgiliSayg I'm gay Atronian LanguagLanguageWays to say I'm gayCebuanobayot koFilipobakla akoHawaiianHe kāne kāne wIndonianaku gayJavaneAku homoMalagasyhomo ahoMalaySaya gayMaoriHe takatāpui ahSamoanO a'u o le gaySundaneabdi homoSayg I'm gay Other Foreign LanguagLanguageWays to say I'm gayEsperantomi tas gejaHaian Creolemwen se masisiLathomosexualis sumDictnary Entri near I'm gayI'm fe, and you? ”This is the same argument that Robert Mugabe ed to supprs the human rights of LGBT people Zimbabwe; that the former print of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, ed when he signed the most dangero law agast LGBT people the morn world; and that Print Yoweri Meveni ed a ceremonial signg of the anti-gay bill Uganda.

GAY DICTNARY AIKAANS

This year Gambia’s print Yahya Jammeh lled for gay people’s throats to be I was appoted by Berl’s Humboldt Universy this year to teach the urse “Pre- and post-lonial sexual orientatn and sexual inty Ai”, I knew I had a huge task before me. I had to teach stunts about a history that is mostly diggg up facts I found that, while many Ains say that homosexualy is un-Ain, Ain culture is no stranger to homosexual behavurs and example, my lol language (Yoba), the word for “homosexual” is adofuro, a lloquialism for someone who has anal sex. The words are ntral; they are not fed wh hate or the Buganda Kgdom, part of morn-day Uganda, Kg Mwanga II was openly gay and faced no hate om his subjects until whe men brought the Christian church and s nmnatn.

Though Kg Mwanga is the most proment Ain rerd as beg openly gay, he was not Boy-Wiv and Female Hbands, a book examg homosexualy and femism Ai, the rearchers found ‘‘explic” Bhman artwork that picts men engagg same-sex sexual activy.

It is the reason I receive ath threats, which ultimately drove me to exile om my home long as the notn that homosexualy is un-Ain persists, Kenyatta will receive applse, Mugabe will w electns, and parliaments across the ntent will retroduce harmful stop all this, we need to start by re-tellg our history and rememberg our te Ain culture, one that celebrat diversy, promot equaly and acceptance, and regnis the ntributn of everyone, whatever their sexualy. Wh the passage of time has acquired s own characteristics, sce has assiated words om English, Malay, Portugue and the Zulu languag of the nativ of the area, as you n see our Aikaans Gay Ai, after Apartheid and over the years, has bee one of the ma untri where LGBT rights are protected, crimalizg homosexualy, allowg equal marriage, civil unns, adoptn and legislatg agast the employment discrimatn, etc. This has meant that pecially large ci such as Cape Town and Durban the LGBT muny is socially accepted, however ral areas, the picture is different sce gay people are still asslted and lbians suffer “rrective vlatns”.

GAYLE: THE LANGUAGE OF APARTHEID SOUTH AI’S GAY UNRGROUND

Sce the premiere of Brokeback Mounta, s ed to talk about the men who explore homosexual sex the boy sut ntext, or men who go to monta to fish or hunt and end up beg hunted behd after a bge near the firelight ? is also ed English-speakg untri exprsed as Rectal Ranger. The language was most likely veloped wh the LGBTQI+ muni of lour, particularly the loured gay muny of District 6, as a way for s members to look out for each other heterosexual spac or other public spac where their safety was at risk. Functng as a sort of , Gayle allowed the LGBTQI+ muny to speak openly and eely, whout tectn the public eye, durg the Apartheid era when the ernment monored and censored their activi.

Gayle is characterised as a nglomerate of Aikaans and English, wh s most distct feature beg the e of popular women’s nam as words for activi, which would have otherwise been outlawed if discsed openly.

WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY AI?

While Gayle is an important part of South Ain queer culture, is important to cred s brown, queer origators for velopg what beme an important tool for the velopment of South Ai’s LGBTQI+ culture and social rights movement. One school of thought vehemently stat that homosexual relatns is un-Ain, satanic and perpetuated by evil spirs, even see as a way through which the wt ntu her lonial fluence on the ntent.

Christiany and Islam own on homosexual relatns and as such, s troductn and subsequent entrenchment has ma heterosexual relatnship the norm while homosexualy is viewed as the vice. Acrdg to anthropologists Stephen Murray and Will Rose the “Expand Crimalisatn of Homosexualy Uganda: A Flawed Narrative / Empiril evince and strategic alternativ om an Ain perspective, ” they were of the opn that Numero reports also dited that the highly sex-segregated societi of Ai, homosexual behavur and relatnships were not unmon among peers, both male and female, pecially the years before heterosexual marriage. They went further to state unapologetilly that what the lonisers imposed on Ai was not homosexualy “but rather tolerance of — and systems of surveillance and regulatn for supprsg .

In his current rearch, Leap is lookg at Harleme, the language of the Harlem Renaissance, where he c a rich and dynamic queer prence and a manner of speakg that, while beg not exclively queer, has fluenced both gay and mastream language to this day.

AIN GAYS AND LBIANS BAT BIAS

Around the same time, Bra, Polari, what scholars ll an anti-language, was at s peak among gay men, but the jargon would be pletely unregnizable to most English speakers today. She-g appears almost universally and across centuri gay language, om Pe to the Philipp to South Ai (where gay slang is lled Gayle), to Israel (lled oxtch, rived om an Arabic word meang "my sister"), to Soviet-era Rsia.

But Put's Rsia, where the environment remas extremely hostile for LGBT people, the webse, acrdg to a paper by rearcher Stephan Nance, lists a urse on how to speak prent-day Rsian gay, a slang lled goluboy -- om a word related to the bluish lor of a dove -- prumably to help gay Rsians intify one another.

") Denis Provencher, partment head of French and Italian at the Universy of Arizona, has yet to intify a siar argot as Polari or rearch to gay-specific slang French, where disurse, typil French fashn, operat as more waltz than stri. " While vobulary might be the most fun part of lavenr lguistics for the layperson, scholars are ncerned wh aspects such as tone, flectn, and gturg, as well as the polil and cultural implitns of language -- how the prs wre about LGBT issu, for example, or how queer people munite wh each other privately and at work, or how gay language is learned. Several studi, cludg one on 50 societi every regn of the ntent, cisively support the ncln that homosexual relatnships nstute “a nsistent and logil feature of Ain societi and belief systems.

GAYLE: SOUTH AI’S SECRET GAY LANGUAGE

If what you are is not a matter of choice, and sexualy is part of who you are, then is morally unjtifiable to nsir a homosexual person as pable of ntributg to the mon good jt bee of their sexualy. The home affairs mister has threatened to shut down NGOs promotg gay rights, while even the print has weighed , statg somewhat bizarrely that "even ws disapprove" of same-sex attu is ditive of wispread social norms, and ed laws, across much of the ntent. This map, provid by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA), shows where homosexual activi or clatns are crimalized, cludg thirty-three Ain untri.

BotswanaAnyone who has "rnal knowledge of any person agast the orr of nature"—a phrase often ed legal s to refer to homosexual activy—n be sentenced to prison for up to seven years. EgyptEgyptian law do not specifilly proscribe nsensual homosexual relatns between adults, but other laws—cludg those banng bchery and prostutn—have been ed to imprison gay men the past.

Members of the South Ain Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr and Intersex (LGBTI) muny chant slogans as they take part the annual Gay Pri Para, as part of the three-day Durban Pri Ftival, Durban, South Ai, on June 24.

THIS SECRET LANGUAGE ALLOWED GAY MEN TO COMMUNITE WHEN HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL

LiberiaLiberian law f homosexualy—along wh oral sex and sex or sexual touchg between unmarried heterosexual persons—as "viate sexual terurse, " which is classed as a first-gree mismeanour rryg a one-year prison sentence.

Twelve stat northern Nigeria—which is predomantly Mlim—have adopted shariah law, unr which the maximum penalty for homosexual activy between men is ath, and for women is whippg and/or imprisonment. In southern areas ntrolled by Al-Shabab, a strict terpretatn of sharia law is implemented and homosexual sex is punishable by SudanThe world's youngt untry punish what lls "rnal terurse agast the orr of nature" wh a prison sentence of up to 10 years.

A gay uple, who wish to rema anonymo, who fled adly persecutn their home untry due to their sexual-orientatn is pictured durg an terview the Kenyan pal, Nairobi, on January 12, 2012. A group of people om the gay, lbian and transgenr muny South Ai monstrate outsi the Parliament Cape Town agast proposed chang to the nstutn that would repeal a prohibn on discrimatn on the grounds of sexualy, on May 19, 2012.