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

Contents:

• 35 FRENCH GAY SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–FRENCH DICTNARY
• HOW TO SAY GAY FRENCH
• WHAT ARE SOME MON EXPRSNS ED BY GAY MEN FRANCE?
• HOW TO SAY "I'M GAY." FRENCH.
• FROM CLOSET TALK TO PC TERMOLOGY : GAY SPEECH AND THE POLICS OF VISIBILY

35 FRENCH GAY SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW

French gay slang is no gay-speak is generally translated om English/Amerin gay slang, and as wh s heterosexual unterpart, is bt to know a thg or two about , whatever your you are cur about gay slang and how to say gay, lbian, or homosexual French, we piled a list for you! In se you want to add more or know the English slang for some of the ems mentned above, feel ee to sound off the ments more related readgs, check out the followg:What is like to be gay France?

A bear (slang) scrib a hairy, heavy-set (sometim mcular) gay or bisexual man: “un ours” (do pronounce the fal “s”)non-bary person: somebody who intifi as neher male nor female, or some batn of both: “une personne non-baire”, “une personne bi-genrée”. The LGBTQ+ muny: (f) “la munté LGBTQ+”sexual orientatn: (f) “l’orientatn sexuelle”homosexualy: (f) “l’homosexualé”heterosexualy: (f) “l’hétérosexualé”gay rights: (m) “l dros s homosexuels”gay marriage: (m) “le mariage gay”homoparental adoptn: (f) “l’adoptn homoparentale”misgenrg: (v) “mégenrer” or “malgenrer”genr dysphoria: a state of unease or generalized dissatisfactn wh life – Genr dysphoria is experienced by people whose genr inty do not align wh their assigned sex: (f) “la dysphorie”sex assigned at birth: (m) “le sexe assigné à la naissance”breast bdg: (v) “se banr l ses”sex reassignment surgery: (f) “une chirgie réassignatn sexuelle”ttosterone shots: (f) “s jectns ttostérone”to be the closet: to be gay but whout sayg openly: “être dans le plard”, “être secrètement homosexuel”, “ne pas révéler s préférenc / son inté sexuelle(s)”to e out: to announce publicly that you are gay: “faire son g out” be outed: when someone else divulg your sexual orientatn or inty whout your nsent: “révéler l’orientatn ou l’inté sexuelle quelqu’un ntre son gré”. At that time beg gay, or even talkg about was still que a taboo France, and I admire Aznavour for takg the risk to sg about that subject and create such a betiful, sensive, rpectful and lovg song, pecially sce he was not gay himself.

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–FRENCH DICTNARY

I live alone wh MomIn a very old apartmentOn Sarasate StreetI have to keep my panyA turtle, two nariAnd a psytSo that mom n rtI very often do the grocery shoppgAnd the okgI clean, I wash, I swipeOcsnally I also sewOn the sewg macheWork don’t sre meI’m a b of a ratorA b of a stylistBut my real jobIt’s at nightthat I do transvteI’m an artistI have a very special showThat ends fully nakedAfter strippgAnd the showroom I n see thatMal n’t believe their eyI’m a homo Like they sayAround 3AMWe go out to eat among iendsOf every genrIn a random barAnd there, we have a blastAnd whout any plexWe gossip the tthAbout people we n’t standWe stone themBut we do wh humorWrapped punsWet wh acidWe meet stupid peopleWho to amaze their tableWalk and waveMimickg what they thk is Coverg themselv, the poor foolsWh ridiculeThey gture and speak loudThey act like divas, tenorsOf stupidyAs for me, their bad jok and mean wordsDon’t get to me, sce is teI am an homoLike they sayAt the time when a new day I go back to fd my routeLonelsI take off my eyelash and my hairLike an old clown sadof wearsI lay down but I don’t sleepI thk about my unhappy lovSo ludicroAbout this boy handsome as a godWho did nothg yet sat fireTo my memoryMy mouth will never dareAdm to him my sweet secretMy tenr dramaBee the reason of all my tormentsSpends most of his timeIn women’s bedsno one tly has the rightTo blame me, to judge meAnd let me pot outThat is ed naturewho is the only rponsible ifI am an homoLike they say.

HOW TO SAY GAY FRENCH

But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay women.At moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a woman.He said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

WHAT ARE SOME MON EXPRSNS ED BY GAY MEN FRANCE?

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough".He said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'".When Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3,000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance blossomed.Three years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos".He relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife."Danny Beard on Same Sex Love and MarriageDanny explor same-sex weddgs, fdg out why upl chose to get married, the challeng unrpng this cisn and what mak the wedd relatnships work.The uple said they now wanted to help people who were not as ee and strive for "equaly for everyone"."Now I'm here a safe place I want to fight for others to be able to marry who they want," Adam said."I'm so lucky but I want everyone else Sdi to marry the one they love whout facg discrimatn and persecutn." Image source, Fay photographImage ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza say they are "very proud" to have been the first same-sex uple married EnglandMore than 40,000 same-sex marriag took place between 2014 and 2020, acrdg to the Office for Natnal StatisticsPeter McGrah and David Cabreza, origally om Stland and the US, ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry England on 29 March 2014.The trailblazers married jt after midnight at Islgton Town Hall.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage"."It was so sweet seeg him so happy," Mr Cabreza said. But to actually be lockg ey wh Ellen and hold her, shakg hands as she said, "I'm gay, " on natnal televisn and for the first time, as she has shared outloud that way publicly, was such a profoundly extraordary and timate gift to that moment that I will forever be grateful for.

HOW TO SAY "I'M GAY." FRENCH.

This homophobic slur was wrapped up a pliment about my was garloly tellg me that he really liked my haircut, but was not sure whether he should have himself, as France ‘ça fa un p tapette’ – ‘ looks a b queer’ anecdot uld easily be wrten off as jt that, anecdot. In short, what has stck me most France is this disnnect between the slurs that are often ed and the posive views about gay people that the same people may scribg the experienc, I do not tend to portray everyday homophobia as a purely French issue. And yet, homophobia is still rife morn French language, not bee young French people are (necsarily) homophobic, but bee homophobia is anchored the fabric of the French vernacular, hand down by their precsors, and fluenced by the media and society at large.

But is still a French has stck me most France is this disnnect between the slurs that are often ed and the posive views about gay people that the same people may symptoms of this problem were seen 2016, when a hairdrser was fired by his manager Paris. 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. 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.

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

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.