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

Contents:

• GAY LGO DICTNARY
• ANO ANG KAHULUGAN NG GAY?
• FILIPO GAY LGO EXPLAED FOR THE RT OF THE WORLD
• KALOKA, KERI, BONGGA: PAKAHULUGAN AT PAHIWATIG NG GAY LANGUAGE SA MGA PILG PELIKULA NI VICE GANDAKALOKA, KERI, BONGGA: PAKAHULUGAN AT PAHIWATIG NG GAY LANGUAGE SA MGA PILG PELIKULA NI VICE GANDAKALOKA, KERI, BONGGA: PAKAHULUGAN AT PAHIWATIG NG GAY LANGUAGE SA MGA PILG PELIKULA NI VICE GANDAKALOKA, KERI, BONGGA: PAKAHULUGAN AT PAHIWATIG NG GAY LANGUAGE SA MGA PILG PELIKULA NI VICE GANDAKALOKA, KERI, BONGGA: PAKAHULUGAN AT PAHIWATIG NG GAY LANGUAGE SA MGA PILG PELIKULA NI VICE GANDA
• GAY LINGOGAY LINGOGAY LINGOGAY LINGOGAY LINGO
• KALOKA, KERI, BONGGA: PAKAHULUGAN AT PAHIWATIG NG GAY LANGUAGE SA MGA PILG PELIKULA NI VICE GANDA
• BEKILIPO: “ANG PAGLALADLAD NG GAY LGO SA KULTURA AT WIKANG FILIPO”BEKILIPO: “ANG PAGLALADLAD NG GAY LGO SA KULTURA AT WIKANG FILIPO”BEKILIPO: “ANG PAGLALADLAD NG GAY LGO SA KULTURA AT WIKANG FILIPO”BEKILIPO: “ANG PAGLALADLAD NG GAY LGO SA KULTURA AT WIKANG FILIPO”BEKILIPO: “ANG PAGLALADLAD NG GAY LGO SA KULTURA AT WIKANG FILIPO”
• LEARNG GAY LGO: A STARTER GUI!
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• ANCH ICH? BEKIMON, OR THE SECRET OF GAYS
• FROM CLOSET TALK TO PC TERMOLOGY : GAY SPEECH AND THE POLICS OF VISIBILY

GAY LGO DICTNARY

Ang Swardspeak o Gay Lgo o mga wikang Bekimon ay isang patagong wika o salang balbal na nagmula sa Englog (pagpapal wika ng Tagalog-Ingl) na gagam ng ilang mga homoseksuwal sa lgo na o ay gumagam ng ilang sala mula sa Tagalog, Ingl, Kastila, at ilan mula sa Hapon, pati na r sa pangalan ng mga kilalang tao at tatak, na nagbibigay sa kanila ng mga bagong kahulugan sa iba’t ibang ay mapapans sa mga komundad na may mga homoseksuwal kung saan gumagam r ng mga salang nanggalg mula sa mga lokal na wika o dayalekto kabilang na ang Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray at ay hdi matdihan ng mga taong hdi payar sa kultura ng mga Pilipong homoseksuwal o hdi alam ang mga patakaran sa pagggam.

Kaloka, Keri, Bongga: Pakahulugan at Pahiwatig ng Gay Language sa mga Pilg Pelikula ni Vice GandaKaloka, Keri, Bongga: Pakahulugan at Pahiwatig ng Gay Language sa mga Pilg Pelikula ni Vice GandaUsg the amework of Pragmatics and Grice's (2012) operative prciple and nversatnal maxims, this paper dissects the gay language's ntextual meangs, and effects on narrative and characterizatn as ed Vice Ganda's selected h films. This paper also sctiz the soc-cultural-polil implitns of the e of gay language as manifted the role and image of the gay-language-speakg characters and how the might actually reflect empowerment and/or opprsn of gays a heteronormative society.

Further, while Vice Ganda's brand of humor and personaly are still apparent and that gay language was ed to duce lghter, nnot be nied that, amidst society's morizatn of gays, there are eper unrlyg meangs and signifince for such e of gay language. Abstrak: Gam ang balangkas ng pragmatics at ng operative prciple at nversatnal maxims ni Grice (2012), himay ng papel ang kontekstuwal na kahulugan at epekto sa naratibo at karakterisasyon ng gay language na gam sa mga pilg pelikula ni Vice Ganda.

ANO ANG KAHULUGAN NG GAY?

Siyasat d ng papel ang sosyo-kultural-polikal na implikasyon ng gay language na nahayag sa gampan at imahen ng baklang nagsasala ng gay language, at kung paano no nasasalam ang tunay na katayuan at kalalagyan ng bakla sa heteronormatibong lipunan. Bod do, law man ang tatak ng humor at personalidad ni Vice Ganda at kadalasan mang nasa modo ng pagpapatawa ang paggam ng gay language, hdi maatanggi na may hig na malalim na kahulugan at kabuluhan ang lengguwahe sa gna ng pagsasantabi sa mga bakla ng lipunan. Usg the amework of Pragmatics and Grice’s (2012) operative prciple and nversatnal maxims, this paper dissects the gay language’s ntextual meangs, and effects on narrative and characterizatn as ed Vice Ganda’s selected h films.

Further, while Vice Ganda’s brand of humor and personaly are still apparent and that gay language was ed to duce lghter, nnot be nied that, amidst society’s morizatn of gays, there are eper unrlyg meangs and signifince for such e of gay language. Gam ang balangkas ng pragmatics at ng operative prciple at nversatnal maxims ni Grice (2012), himay ng papel ang kontekstuwal na kahulugan at epekto sa naratibo at karakterisasyon ng gay language na gam sa mga pilg pelikula ni Vice Ganda.

Siyasan d ng papel ang sosyo-kultural-polikal na implikasyon ng gay language na nahayag sa gampan at imahen ng baklang nagsasala ng gay language, at kung paano no nasasalam ang tunay na katayuan at kalalagyan ng bakla sa heternormatibong lipunan.

FILIPO GAY LGO EXPLAED FOR THE RT OF THE WORLD

(Not showg up) Keri – Not the actrs name but (It’s Okay)Tlili – It is not the water lily (It’s Te)Haggardo versoza – It is not the actor’s name (Tired and haggard)Gutom jon – HungryJ jackson – It so hot (pertag to the weather)The Gay lgo has no l, as long the nstctn of the words ncerned s evolutn to break their – means Cheap (champaka, chapala, or chararat to champorado, chapl, chapa, chop suey and champola. – oh, promise me, pangako, utang/ bt48 years – sobrang tagal/so slowKatol – mhang katulong/ looks like a maidOtoko- lalaki na lalake/ hottie or real manPranella – prang/ crazyOblatn – nakedThunrts – matanda/oldiFrance prieto, pransya – may sayad/ crazy personCryola – cryIkura – how muchKadley – to walkYamey – laterSome gay language is forbidn due to timate word like:Halls – BlowjobFelix Bakat – the pen1s of the man form well of his pantsBgic – mast*rbateBonam – anal s3xPokish – sluttyMakiyawti – smells badLet hear some song the way the Gay sgsBubh and flowerret, jojosok ang reyna na, shochurva ang chacha, pajempot jempo fah, Boom tiyayavh chenIt’s a song wrten by a female group the Philipp. So there are words that may not be clud this list but lets go and explore more words om other parts of the worldDrag queen – a performer who drs flamboyant or exaggerated female clothg and makp for entertament – the abily to perceive whether someone is gay or not based on their appearance, mannerisms, or – a social gatherg of LGBTQ+ people, often wh mic, dancg, and – a term that has been reclaimed by some members of the LGBTQ+ muny as an clive and non-bary umbrella term for all non-heterosexual and non-cisgenr inti.

Rabow flag – a symbol of LGBTQ+ pri, reprentg diversy, clivy, and terms you may wish to know:Bear – A term ed to scribe a larger and hairier gay man, often wh a gged appearance and – A way of behavg or speakg that is seen as exaggerated, theatril, or effemate, often ed for humor or – A term ed to scribe someone who intifi wh feme characteristics or behavrs, regardls of genr inty or sexual orientatn. Published Augt 12, 2010 2:50pm If you don’t unrstand the phrase “pasok sa banga" (rough English translatn: fs si the jar), maybe you are not gay or a fag hag (a woman who lik to act gay or hang out wh screamg gays).

KALOKA, KERI, BONGGA: PAKAHULUGAN AT PAHIWATIG NG GAY LANGUAGE SA MGA PILG PELIKULA NI VICE GANDAKALOKA, KERI, BONGGA: PAKAHULUGAN AT PAHIWATIG NG GAY LANGUAGE SA MGA PILG PELIKULA NI VICE GANDAKALOKA, KERI, BONGGA: PAKAHULUGAN AT PAHIWATIG NG GAY LANGUAGE SA MGA PILG PELIKULA NI VICE GANDAKALOKA, KERI, BONGGA: PAKAHULUGAN AT PAHIWATIG NG GAY LANGUAGE SA MGA PILG PELIKULA NI VICE GANDAKALOKA, KERI, BONGGA: PAKAHULUGAN AT PAHIWATIG NG GAY LANGUAGE SA MGA PILG PELIKULA NI VICE GANDA

Bekimon om two words: “becky or beki, " gay speak for “bakla" or young gays, and “jejemon, " which refers to the strange text and Inter language that has gaed wispread age among izens and mobile phone ers the Philipp. It is the new term for gay lgo or gay speak, the betiful and nfg (to those who are uniated) and very gay ( the old sense of the word) languag of the bakla, the agí, and the bayot of this fabulo, fabulo Philippe archipelago. Milant tout tant que ludique, ce langage se vt également le défensr d’un certa style vie, cherchant à exprimer, manière la pl visible, poliquement rrecte et effice qui so, la richse s portements et s cultur du mon gay.

2Funny and provotive as may seem, this msage posted on Kks & Queens, a gay Swedish webse, not only reveals a visibily and culture that the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr muny was long pelled to hh, but also nfirms the existence of a lexin not que like standard English. From the darker ag when homosexualy was at s bt a s and/or a perversn until the prent environment of rabow flags and gay pris, gayspeak has been ed to transgrs social norms, articulate particular needs and emotns, as well as renstct, or re-terpret, realy. When to elaborate polilly rrect fns of the « queer » universe, pk talk displays an extraordary plexy of sexual orientatns and subcultur, a possible means to pensate for lguistic ficiency and to claim a gay space on the social spectm.

GAY LINGOGAY LINGOGAY LINGOGAY LINGOGAY LINGO

Most male homosexuals therefore kept their sexual orientatns very much the closet unls amidst their k when they lled each other female nam—« Miss Kten », « Cha Mary », « Primrose Mary », and « Dip-Candle Mary »3—, a practice still faiar among ntemporary gay men.

Until World War Two, rearch on what was then labeled the « language of homosexualy » foced on genr versn, wh homosexualy beg regard as a pathology characterized as sexual viance or perversn: whereas heterosexual language equated wh the appropriate genr, homosexual language displayed equent aquaci between the physil genr and the lguistic genr of the speaker. In the reprsive and secury-ncerned Cold War environment4, to talk about themselv, most gays and lbians relied upon phemisms such as « iends of Dorothy(‘s) », (after The Wizard of Oz, 1939, a classic mil popular wh gay dienc), « whoopsi », « (s)he’s is a ltle... Dpe the achievements of gay rights, the stigma attached to a « love that dare not [always] speak s name », to quote Osr Wil, ocsnally lgers the way some gays e « them » to refer to their partners and « refully word speech to hi explic genr referenc »16.

For many Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr—or LGBT17—people today, pk talk works as a hive force agast discrimatn, although they also adm that gay exprsns have actually shifted om the physil nfement of the 18th century molly ho to a lguistic nfement. 5Sce 1993 [, ] the Amerin Universy Washgton DC has been home to annual nferenc on Lavenr Language and Lguistics, wh Lavenr19 Language beg fed as the way « lbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenred persons and queers e language everyday life »20. Leap mentned two other « betiful exampl »: whereas gay speech « pcher » intifi the sexually active dividual and « tcher » the receptive person, « If we say pcher or we say tcher, an ordary nversatn, I thk ’s unlikely that [straight people] would read anythg else to .

KALOKA, KERI, BONGGA: PAKAHULUGAN AT PAHIWATIG NG GAY LANGUAGE SA MGA PILG PELIKULA NI VICE GANDA

Whereas some lbians tend to speak at a lower pch than straight women—and their range of pch is lser than that of straight women29—the typil high pched disurse and adorned talks of some gay men, not necsarily of the effemate type, is another equent give-away. Food metaphors are not unmon, such as seafood (gay sailors) and related sailor queens (men whose primary tert is sailors), tuna (young gay sailors), jam (younger men), angel food (gay men the air force), rice queens (men attracted to Asians), ernment spected meat (a gay man the armed forc) to be found meat racks (gay male cisg areas). Apts of the Scene (the gay club circu) attend whe parti, where Amy-Johns (after Amazons), lipstick lbians35 (stylishly drsed a tradnally feme way), and chapstick lbians (who do not wear make-up and are very much to sports)36 meet wh leather dyk, tomboys, and lemons (lbians).

As for gym bunni/queens (gay men who work out a gym), and mcle Mari (more effemate gym queens) who are a h among mcle queens (men who prefer mcular men), they will jo flamers (effemate gay men), baby Crocketts (psdo-wboys), and label queens (signers’ fashn victims)37.

BEKILIPO: “ANG PAGLALADLAD NG GAY LGO SA KULTURA AT WIKANG FILIPO”BEKILIPO: “ANG PAGLALADLAD NG GAY LGO SA KULTURA AT WIKANG FILIPO”BEKILIPO: “ANG PAGLALADLAD NG GAY LGO SA KULTURA AT WIKANG FILIPO”BEKILIPO: “ANG PAGLALADLAD NG GAY LGO SA KULTURA AT WIKANG FILIPO”BEKILIPO: “ANG PAGLALADLAD NG GAY LGO SA KULTURA AT WIKANG FILIPO”

The yearly gay pris which take place most Amerin ci, the midst of ribbons, lorful paras, and mil shows, are a clear signal, as the name dite, that there is pri beg members of the « fay », a term the gay muny sometim appli to self39. In this ebullience, Bce Rodger’s landmark The Queen’s Vernacular was released (1972), followed, to mentn jt a few, by Joseph Hay’s « Gayspeak » (1976) and « Language and Language Behavr of Lbian and Gay Men » (1978‑1979), Leonard R.

LEARNG GAY LGO: A STARTER GUI!

Pl Baker himself, who has nducted terviews among the Brish LGTB populatn, rearched gay archiv and d gay and lbian chats on the ter, released Fantabulosa: A Dictnary of Polari and Gay Slang 200242, wh 1, 700 entri rived om terviews, archiv, and gay and lbian web chats43. The ter has s share, upon which the prent study has been partially based, such as the onle Dictnary of Gay Slang and Historil Terms, Flampeak, Queer Slang the Gay 90, Rebec Stt’s A Brief Dictnary of Queer Slang and Culture (1997), Matt & Andrej Koymasky’s GLTB Slang Dictnary (last updated 2005), and Robert Owen Stt’s prehensive Wizard Gay Slang Dictnary (last updated 2003)44.

Whereas the 1960s gay and lbian scholars took a stake the polil advancement of homosexuals, directly enuragg the olr generatn to e the Lavenr language, gay youths cid to avoid what they nsired a relic of the past ( England, some claimed Polari to be « silly, femisg and outdated »45). In the mid-1970s and 1980s, however, the divisns between homosexuals flated, strengtheng the hn of the muny as well as a new approach of homosexualy which was fed terms of opprsed mory inty: after the manner of Ain-Amerins who promoted Black English vernacular, LGBT people found logil to adopt a specific language, although as we noted before, gayspeak has always been more a lexin than a language wh s proper grammatil and phonologil l. Sce the late 1980s, the inty-based mol of homosexualy has been s turn challenged, for beg excsively foced on rpectabily, th excludg some margal liftyl—sadomasochists, workg-class femme lbians, Ain-Amerin drag queens, and bisexuals—wh the gay muny self.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

In an effort to reawaken the spir of activism om the post-Stonewall era, Queer Natn adopted a somewhat nontatnal approach and purposely ed the word queer for s shock value while rejectg the term gay, which for some had bee too mastream49. It was possibly rived om the French fagot, a bundle of sticks and twigs bound together, ed for burng heretics and wch at the stake, or om an abive term for women, or reference to younger boys who performed duti for senrs Brish public schools, where homosexualy was viewed as enmic.

« The label ‘homosexual’ », Norton explas, « stead of beg generated by society to ntrol people, was self-generated by gay (or gay-iendly) men to empower dividuals and set them on the road to eedom rather than enslavement »62. Whereas the neteenth century gay signated male and female prostut65, is now advantageoly displayg LGBT flamboyance, wh ls technily than the term homosexual and wh an assuredly ls explic lk between sexual activy and gay inty regardls of the genr66. Gay and bisexual women who chat on the Inter or post personal ads do on s wh nam such as The Gay History of Pla Earth onle self has clearly specified that « the word ‘gay’ is ed throughout [their] se reference to women and men who form erotic same-sex relatnships »67.

ANCH ICH? BEKIMON, OR THE SECRET OF GAYS

18Women-only events, lbian clubs, dyke bars, Girlz n, gay women nights, women-to-women chat rooms, goln girls webs: termology unts que a few ems to scribe the lbian world, not to mentn those displayg the variety of lbian inti. Whereas today they are regularly lled « girls’ girls » or « women-lovg-women » (WLW), the way gay men are lled « men-who-have-sex-wh-men » (MSM)70, «  mid-eighteenth-century discsns of lbians », Norton noted, people ed « abstract phras such as ‘feme ngrsn’ » or phemisms such as « vic Irregulari », « unacuntable timaci », « unmon and preternatural Lt », « unnatural Appet both Sex », and « abomable and unnatural pollutns »71.

The revival of butch/femme upl giv room to a renewed terpretatn of role-playg, such as « butch the streets, femme the sheets », or wh upl as « butch-on-butch and femme-on-femme »90, relatnships sometim referred to as homogenr (butch-butch).

22The fluctuatg rol wh the gay female muny somehow outdat the strict separatist polics of the 1970s, when femists started g words like wimm and womyn li of a patriarchal wo-men98 (as for the summer Michigan Womyn’s Mic Ftival99), or when they found the New York Lbian Herstory Archiv. Whereas most LGBT people are clear (100% gay) or as pk k (very obvly gay, a mid-90s age), some are eyeballg the back of the closet door (not que out of the closet)115, straight actg/appearg (or s/a, s/a/a), and even ytergays (intifyg as gay the past, but no longer so).

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

27The sometim rogatory slang ephets applyg to bisexuals, such as AC-DC (for « alternatg/direct current ») by heterosexuals, or fence-sters or double-gaed by gays and lbians, nnot a « betrayal » of one’s hetero- or homosexual inty, as well as a reluctance to m onelf to a sexual orientatn116. Heterosexuals, then, e such variety as metrosexuals (fashnable urban heterosexual men), who share a gay athetic for their hip appearance wh guppi and luppi (gay/lbian urban profsnals), or, nversely, beige (sipid, anti-fab) and naff (« Normal As Fuck », i. From the reprsive tim when homosexualy was nsired a felony to the prent variety of genr inti and queer subcultur, hundreds of exprsns—puns, phemisms, metaphors, word-age, and semantic shifts—have been ed and are now listed specific dictnari, evince of how LGBT people assert their distctivens and munite creative ways.

17 This acronym will be ed throughout this study, although the « Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr » world prehends a wir multiplicy of muni and liftyl, as will be tailed later, than what those four words seem to dite. 121 « Recent studi have shown that, on average, lbian and gay youth first bee aware of their same-genr attractns at an average of 9-10 years old and first intify as lbian or gay at an average of 14-16 years old ». 124 « I’m shocked and appalled that they’re g universy time to sponsor what amounts to promotn of homosexualy the guise of studyg language », says Bob Knight, an alumn of Amerin Universy which is host to the Annual Conferenc on Lavenr Languag and Lguistics.

EnciclopædiaHow to say gayOne of the most important parts of the Moss Color project is the creatn of a dictnary wh the majory of the words and exprsns ed to attack sexual diversy, formed by a Gay Dictnary, a Lbian Dictnary and an LGBT Glossary.The Gay Dictnary is posed by 68 dictnari rrpondg to each of the piled languag, wh more than 1500 terms and exprsns that speak of sex and love between men, and that sometim also speak of bisexual men and transgenr people.Mari and Maricón are words that we expla the Gay Dictnary.The makg ofOur dictnari are not a mere llectn of words piled whout rhyme or reason the work and prted texts.