How Cape Town's "Gayle" has endured -- and been adopted by straight people

Contents:

• GAY DICTNARY AIKAANS
• LIST OF SOUTH AIN SLANG WORDS - SPECIAL-E SLANG - GAY SLANG
• HOW TO SAY GAY AIKAANS
• 12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
• SOUTH AI’S GAYLE

GAY DICTNARY AIKAANS

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”.

Years ago, a lack of unrstandg homosexualy, ma that var forms of sexual diversy were nfed, so often homosexuals were lled hermaphrod.

LIST OF SOUTH AIN SLANG WORDS - SPECIAL-E SLANG - GAY SLANG

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. Her father had held a posn unr the English Government and had always been by and ill himself, and her mother had been a great bety who red only to go to parti and ame herself wh gay people. Haar pa het ́n posisie is gehou onr die Engelse regerg en was altyd big om en siek homself, en haar ma was ́n groot skoonheid wat omgegee het om te gaan na partye en vermaak haarself met gay mense.

The show’s producer told Newsweek magaze that such scen were signed by gays to “sensize the dience so that people will realize we’re like everybody else.

Die program se regissr het aan die tydskrif Newsweek gê dat sulke tonele ur homoseksuele gkep is om “die gehoor af te stomp sodat mense sal bef dat ons maar sulke mense soos hulle is”. “Members of the Riversi Church yterday approved a pro-gay policy that accepts homosexual relatnships as part of the ncept of Christian fay life. 21 Reflectg the plummetg standards of today’s world —a trend promoted eher directly or directly by Babylon the Great— some untri sponsor annual rnivals or Mardi Gras, ftivals that feature lewd dancg and that may even celebrate gay and lbian liftyl.

HOW TO SAY GAY AIKAANS

21 Die verkmmelen standaar van die wêreld van vandag—’n tenns wat direk of direk ur Babilon die Grote bevorr word—word weerspieël die fe dat party lan jaarlikse karnavalle of Mardi Gras’s b, fete waartyns daar op welltige wyse gedans word en wat dalk selfs homoseksuele en lbie lewenstyle verheerlik.

12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!

The board reportedly also advised the church that “ngregatns uld learn om unmarried upl, cludg gays and lbians, and should rist temptatn to look back to a ‘goln age of the fay. Die raad het na bewerg die kerk ook daarvan kennis gtel dat “gemeent by ongetrou paartji, met begrip van homoseksuele en lbiërs, kan leer en dat hulle die versoekg moet weerstaan om teg te kyk na ’n ‘goue era van die g’”. One Prottant church tribunal, for stance, recently voted to uphold the right of a church “to elect an openly gay elr to s erng board, ” reports the journal Christian Century.

Een Prottantse kerktribunaal het byvoorbeeld onlangs gtem om die reg van ’n kerk te handhaaf “om ’n ourlg wat openlik homoseksueel is tot sy btuursraad te verki”, berig die tydskrif Christian Century. As The Cambridge History of the Bible puts , “Scripture ma him happy, and there is somethg swift and gay his rhythm which nveys his happs.

SOUTH AI’S GAYLE

Kanada se Toronto Star het gê dat “die blote gedagte aan gays en lbiërs wat openlik saambly, [tot nog onlangs toe] ’n skreien skan was”.

The book Sleep, by Gay Gaer Luce and Juli Segal, says: “They nnot lgh at a joke, spank their children anger, mourn, or exhib certa strong feelgs whout beg lerally weak wh emotn and llapsg like jelly. Die boek Sleep, ur Gay Gaer Luce en Juli Segal, sê: “Hulle kan nie vir ’n grap lag nie, kan nie hulle krs pak gee wanneer hulle kwaad is nie, kan nie bedroef we nie of aan sekere sterk gevoelens ug gee sonr om letterlik swak van emosie te word en soos jellie een te stort nie. 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”.

All of the varieti of language were veloped historilly by gay men (and to a lser extent lbians) who need their own way of speakg to avoid tectn and persecutn. There is a growg amount of rearch about Gayle, and ’s even been the subject of a short documentary, “Visg Gayle” by filmmaker Lren Mulligan.