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Contents:
- THREAD: FLAMBOYANT GAYS VS THE AVERAGE HOMOSEXUAL MALE.
- TAYE DIGGS: 'I HAVE A FLAMG GAY MAN INSI OF ME'
- FLAMG GAY
- JAMAI'S ANTI-GAY 'MURR MIC' CARRI VLENT MSAGE
THREAD: FLAMBOYANT GAYS VS THE AVERAGE HOMOSEXUAL MALE.
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A type of homosexual that is easily tected by a person wh ltle to morate "gay-dar".
Someone who is so gay that even gay people say he is too gay for them.
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TAYE DIGGS: 'I HAVE A FLAMG GAY MAN INSI OF ME'
One who is so credibly gay they make Elton John look like Fab. Relative to flamg queer and flamg fag." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * flaming gay man *
Joe Jackson’s 1982 h Real Men was the first time I had heard gays referred to as faggots. I was jt out of the closet and my first gay relatnship London. Jackson’s lyrics about how only our iends and other gays uld ll faggots was enuragg, g as did om a straight man sgg a song jt before AIDS h.
Faggot, often-nsired a slur, has been reclaimed many tim over by gay men, cludg a new play by Declan Greene, The Homosexuals, or “Faggots”, currently showg at the Malthoe Melbourne. The play looks at gay male relatnships and their polics, and is apt as middle-class gay men and lbians stggle wh acceptance all over aga the face of their ll for marriage equaly. And merry-old-England there was abe: one night when leavg gay club Heaven, a bunch of lads lled and our female iends “pooh jabbers”.
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FLAMG GAY
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"Homosexual” (or “homosexualist”) has siar 19th-century origs and was origally ed 1869 by a Hungarian doctor, Karoly Maria Benkert.
In eighteenth-century London was first a term for prostute then for homosexual.
In 1920s New York, scribed an effemate homosexual who sought social/sexual relatns wh “normal men”, acrdg to Gee Chncey while a “flamg faggot” was an extremely obv, flamboyant gay man.
JAMAI'S ANTI-GAY 'MURR MIC' CARRI VLENT MSAGE
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This tenncy for the words for prostute to be later ed for homosexual dat om 18th-century England when they often shared mon social spac, argu gay historian Rictor Norton.
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Bee of the sardonic nature of gayns, all of the above would have to be clud also the vobulary of gay men and queers.
Historilly-specific, nnot the style of gay men mid-1970 to mid-1980s (motache, short hair, fad, baggy Levis and pocket and/or neck handkerchief) as exemplified by the lead sger of the Bronski Beat at the time of their h sgle, Smalltown Boy.
“Nance” and “nancy boy” as well as “Nelly” and “nelli” were terms ed by both gays and straights also nnotg effemacy or youthfulns.