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“NO T, NO SHA” – GAY SLANG
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GAY SLANG 101
Lguists believe that’s how gay slang started, too.
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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.