The Fotten Secret Language of Gay Men - Atlas Obscura

Contents:

• HOW TO SAY GAY ITALIAN
• FOCCH. GAY DICTNARY (ITALY).
• GAY DICTNARY ITALIAN
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–ITALIAN DICTNARY
• HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
• HOW TO SAY GAY ITALIAN
• GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
• GAYSPEAK AND GAY SUBJECTS AUDVISUAL TRANSLATN: STRATEGI ITALIAN DUBBG
• THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
• HOW TO SAY GAY ITALIAN?GEɪGAY
• GAY ITALY
• HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY ITALIAN
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH-ITALIAN DICTNARY

HOW TO SAY GAY ITALIAN

However, there is no reference or document, for now, to support this assertn, strange thg if you nsir that people hate homosexuals too much at that time as well as the public and exemplary character of those ath sentenc. There are others that tablish the orig of this Focch slang the asexual character (whout geic exchange) of the plant reproductn, makg a double pirouette to relate to homosexual behavr, the sense that gay fuckg not tend to reproductn or do not need “her”, explanatn that, addn to yokel and to have a backout relig stk, would mean that the Italian populatn has a que remarkable knowledge of botany.

FOCCH. GAY DICTNARY (ITALY).

Jt simply take a look at our Italian Gay Dictnary to realize that when Italy image a gay, they thk about a hole, a ntaer, a hollow, an issue that seems like a “ll to actn” and that serv a psychologil pth analysis, maybe at another time we addrs ?.

GAY DICTNARY ITALIAN

Instead, already the Middle Ag the word Focch was ed to name the idt person, stupid, mean, treachero, ntemptible man, whom you n not tst, featur that have tradnally been supposed to homosexual men, as occurs wh other Italian exprsns as “Froc” ed origally for foreigners for not be tsted, and then beg applied to men you uld not tst, to ultimately be ed to sult gay men. In the vast Italian Gay Dictnary placed at your disposal highlights the obssn Italy wh bottom gays and this is probably due to the timate and peculiar relatnship that Italy has had wh male homosexual behavr. As we explaed our article Focch for Prott Collectn, or Pedibo Ego Vos et Irmabo for Funny Collectn, Italians hered the Greek homosexual relatnship system, teacher-pupil, and transformed to the master-slave system, that allowed a man fuck their slav and men general, whout prejudice to his manhood as long as fulfill his role as father and man society.

Already said Jeanne More Fassbr film, Querelle, “each man kills the thg he lov”, and seems that Italy homophobia is directly proportnal to the love for gay “Il gergo queer nell’aliano novecent e ntemporaneo” Doctoral This by Daniel Lucia, Universà “G. Keep md that the Roman Empire was transformed the Greek homosexual nstctn system, teacher-pupil, to the master-slave system that socially allowed men fuck their slav, and general the homosexual behavr if was a top (active) sex role. This term had special diffn by the actns of the group Spaventapassere (Srecrow) orig of this exprsn is not clear, but revolv around the patriarchal intifitn, that is, the attributn of female characteristics to gay men, sce acrdg to this pot of view, gays are men who are like women:Is the dimutive of Franc, women’s name, and as the se of the Spanish exprsn Mari is a woman’s name ed to name homosexual some parts of Italy as Tny and Laz, is slang for female reproductive Venice and Tny ed exprsns like Cec and Che, ditg vulgar, stupid and rels woman.

Other terms, such as Pato (Gay Dictnary: Lat Ameri), have their orig the attributn of many negative featur to gays, so that g this slang uld extend the negative characteristics of some women to all homosexual is wily ed Laz, Tny, and Lombardy, where the mascule form Chec is ed too and is also ed to a lser extent the rt of Italy. Variatns: Amichec (hag fag), Checgge, Criptochec (homosexual the closet), Chierichec (fanatic tholic homosexual), Schecre (actg effemately, angry or hysteril way), Arcichec (of Arcigay associatn), Aristochec (Dandy), Melochec (mic lover). In the se of Italy, they suffered attacks of German mercenari, jok agast the Frenchmen who occupied Rome and the papal Swiss Guard, men om neighborg untri, France, Swzerland, and Germany, socially gifted of the worst habs and ways of beg as homosexual behavr.

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–ITALIAN DICTNARY

+Mammoterm ed a rogatory sense as the mascule form of the Italian word Mamma (mother), om those who oppose the regnn of the existence of a homosexual parentg or even planng a gay parentg. It is a loan word om the German language, Urngtum, created 1864 by the homosexual activist Karl Herich Ulrichs (1825-1895), reference to the godss Aphrode Urania on the Symposium of Plato, protective of homosexual love, and would be the so-lled third sex.

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De Haln if the Venice Film Ftival would have weled an award meant to specifilly honor gay-themed movi, the same way Berl Internatnal Film Ftival had done 20 years earlier (wh Teddy Bear Award).

HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG

Leonardo Da Vci’s legacy Milan is well known and many historians agree that he was a gay artist leavg his mark many masterpiec of the cy, cludg The Last Supper, hoed by the refectory of the nvent of Santa Maria lle Grazie. There are also many wonrful lser-known plac where an tert LGBTQ+ history uld lead you, such as Florence's Bargello Mm, which ntas an earlier Renaissance statue of David by the artist Donatello—the first ee-standg male nu sce Classil Antiquy, and a super-sexy homoerotic nu at that. What mak the e of this word the sense of homosexual a ltle more than prumed is the fact that gay had long acquired this meang and had been monly ed as a slang word at least sce the 1920s the Uned Stat, although the term did not enter mastream language until the 1940s the USA and the 1950s England (Partridge 2002).

Notable as the Hollywood age of the word gay is, I would like to shift the foc to the Italian dubbed versn of Hawks’s film, entled Sanna, which David’s Italian answer to the lady’s qutn about his peculiar choice of clothg is: Perché sono diventato pazzo, ec perché! Gays 1938 Italy were mad for two reasons: the first is that the very ncept of a homosexual uld never have ma past the fascist ernment’s own censorship ; sendly and more importantly, as the word gay the sense of homosexual entered the Italian lexin as a loan word only the late 1960s (De Mro 1979: 103), is more than likely that the Italian adapter did not know what Cary Grant was talkg about.

HOW TO SAY GAY ITALIAN

This quotatn helps me to troduce the object of this article which tends to highlight two ma sensive areas the dubbg of the solled gayspeak to Italian: first, the possible existence of overt and vert manipulative and censorg practic which, at all tim and even today, may have tend to phemize, dilute or alter homosexual ntent and, more simply, to supprs the words of homosexualy; sendly, the necsy of an asssment of the Italian gay lexin as pared to the richns of the rrpondg English termology, orr to terme whether there exists objective problems for the translators who do not have a particular skill for makg up neologisms.

Acrdg to Hay, homosexuals e gayspeak three suatns: the secret settg, which is necsary to exprs one’s own sexualy wh circumspectn; the social settg, which gays speak to other people they know to be gay; and the radil-activist settg, which gays ntrol and filter their language what we today ll polilly rrect ways. This is not the place to tackle fundamental issu, namely the qutn of whether is acceptable, terms of polil rrectns but also of lguistic rrectns, to draw general assumptns on gayspeak as if were the language of a sgle muny, while the social landspe is obvly varied and sceptible to numerable distctns.

While is important to keep md the distctns, my purpose here is the analysis of fictnal homosexuals and of their fictnal language as portrayed on the screen mos and ways which may be realistic but are more often than not stereotyped. At issue here is the image of this speech muny as portrayed films wh gay subjects, their fictnal plexy and the relative simplifitn that tends to take place terms of lexil choice and manipulatn of ntents. Acrdg to Hay, the richt featur of social gayspeak are found the lexin, particularly pound nstctns, wh queen beg possibly the most wily employed stem word for buildg pounds ed for a limls seri of imag to scribe sexual preferenc (i.

GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG

One of the most tertg them related to lexin is, I would argue, the way gay activists have managed to create new, more posive referenc for some of the most mon, rogatory homosexual terms:.

Italian gay lexin has also had a siar evolutn, a siar posive turn as the one Stanley refers to, although the rpective terms eher stggled to fd their way to mastream language or were absorbed as loan words, th keepg an exotic feel to them, a foreign rg. This ttifi to the fact that, at least at the begng, the words stggled to be absorbed by the target culture: gay, transgenr, gout, dragqueen, are now words regnisable by most Italian people, but they are jt about the only words of the homosexual jargon to have entered mastream language. This feature is part of a wir disurse which se gayspeak as speakg om a certa place to a certa dience, as Leap (1997: xi) stat, quotg Irigaray (1985: 135-136), who famoly applied this fn to women’s speakg.

GAYSPEAK AND GAY SUBJECTS AUDVISUAL TRANSLATN: STRATEGI ITALIAN DUBBG

The “actg wh actg” (Hay 1976/2006: 71) and the allns to film stars of the past or other inic figur are, ed, a feature of gayspeak which is often portrayed films and ed stereotypilly to pict mpier characters. Wh s unique style, between the oneiric and the naturalistic, the play vers var issu, cludg the ndn of homosexuals Reagan’s Ameri a perd – 1985 – which AIDS was still nsired the gay plague.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

Both the play and the film, the most theatril mp speaker is Belize, an ex drag queen whose speech prents all the tras that Harvey (2004: 449-450) fds characteristic of gay mp talk: the preoccupatn wh sexual activy and a tragi-ic awarens of the ephemeral nature of sexual sire; the ironic, feigned adherence to prcipl of cency; the versn of genr-specific terms, the girl talk; the practice of renamg that clus the adoptn of male nam marked as queer, and the equent e of French, which Harvey (2004: 451) f one of verbal mp’s most nsistent vic English, wh s humoro nod to sophistitn and smopolanism.

In the followg scene, two of the protagonists, Louis and Prr, a homosexual uple, have jt been to the funeral of Louis’s grandmother (the words bold, all the exampl, dite the exprsns which are relevant the analysis of gayspeak):. Instead of rortg, as do, to the general term of omossuale [homosexual] and htg vaguely at nasnre sempre i difetti [always hi the flts], the Italian adaptatn uld have ed the more banal word ‘macho, ’ which is also ed Italian, perhaps losg the homosexual and ironic nnotatns but at least stickg more closely to the meang of Prr’s words.

HOW TO SAY GAY ITALIAN?GEɪGAY

The word closety, although not exclive of the gay vobulary, is nohels often ed the sense of a person who is rerved about his/her sexual orientatn, but also this se Italian lacks a rrpondg term which has the same exprsive ncisens. But the characteristic preoccupatn wh sexual activy allud to by Harvey (2004: 449), which is a mon feature at least of fictnal homosexuals, is here severely phemized when transferred to Italian.

The word nocente – here the sense of both ‘naïf’ and ‘pure, ’ someone who do not enterta any impure sexual thought – is tertg s e here: impli that Louis is fact far om “nocent” and is ed substutn of the origal straight, th implyg that straight is “pure” and homosexual is “impure. The followg exampl, taken on purpose om different media – televisn and cema – and different tim – the prent and the 1970s – are stanc of a more nsc sign to adapt a homosexual disurse to a heteronormative view of homosexuals.

GAY ITALY

The example shows how the Italian translatn neglects some of the typil (or stereotypil) featur of gayspeak, for what seems to be a lack of an appropriate analysis of this particular idlect. Not only are all the famo Hollywood nam, and John Ford’s film Mogambo (1953), [10] which is not quoted but evoked, not transferred to the Italian versn, but the gay fantasy of the handsome drifter be the ntral image of il protagonista [the protagonist].

HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY ITALIAN

As Cameron and Kulick note, today we unrstand homosexualy as an attractn of like to like but “as recently as 50 years ago, homosexualy was more monly unrstood as a matter of genr ‘versn’” (Cameron and Kulick 2006: 4), homosexuals were effemate mal and masculized femal.

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH-ITALIAN DICTNARY

In different ways, the three exampl show one of the lemotifs of the Italian adaptatn of Six Feet Unr: the purpose to transform a homosexual disurse to a heterosexual one, a purpose achieved by manipulatg both ntents and speech.