Don Kulick, Gay and Lbian Language, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 29 (2000), pp. 243-285
Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
- WHY 'GAY' GTUR ARE DISCRIMATN
- THIS SECRET LANGUAGE ALLOWED GAY MEN TO COMMUNITE WHEN HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL
- ?️? GAY EMOJIS COLLECTN
- GAY HAND GTURE
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
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In Gay New York, Gee Chncey c red neckti as one of the major "fairy" signifiers of the 1890s, and the 1930s there was "practilly a homosexual monopoly" on dark brown and gray sue sho the 1930s.
WHY 'GAY' GTUR ARE DISCRIMATN
Clive Coleman reports on the se of a gay man who has won the first pensatn award for discrimatn based entirely on homophobic gtur. * gay hand gesture code *
Physil mannerisms,, why do gay men ntue to create and cultivate the systems of mostly non-verbal munitn wh each other?
THIS SECRET LANGUAGE ALLOWED GAY MEN TO COMMUNITE WHEN HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL
From Regency England to 1920s Harlem to Miss Piggy, gay vernacular has given voice to homosexual inty and sire a hostile world. In some parts, still do. * gay hand gesture code *
I thk a lot of has to do wh the fact that gayns don't e wh hered physil tras or other visible intifiers on the body; we're forced to create our own. How do you tell if someone is gay? are there any secret s to know if someone is gay [Discsn].
i'm bi and am aware of the e of sweater weather to know if someone is bi is there any other secret s to know if someone is gay?
Strewn across flags, banners, and ps, the rabow symboliz the diversy of gays and lbians around the world.
?️? GAY EMOJIS COLLECTN
Polari is a secret language, or cryptolect, that served to help gay men England munite, and remas surprisgly fluential today. * gay hand gesture code *
The Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs Edburgh formally adopted the symbol as an in for gay and lbian rights 1974.
Tradnally, the symbol is drawn pla black, but more recent versns pict the double mars wh the rabow lors filled to symbolize the gays’ aterny or solidary wh other subsectors of the muny. The pk triangle symbol was first ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals their ncentratn mps. Over the urse of the send world war, an timated 10, 000 to 15, 000 homosexuals were rcerated.
The symbol has sce been reclaimed as a symbol of Pri and remembrance of the horrors that gay men experienced Nazi Germany. Green was a mon lor to refer to homosexuals, back 19th-century England. This was a practice popularized by thor Osr Wil who was openly gay and would proudly wear a green rnatn at public events.
GAY HAND GTURE
Back the 20th century New York, gay men would wear a red necktie or bow tie or basilly any red accsory to subtly reprent their inti and help intify members of the same muny. Burke, who was believed to be gay, got chewed out often by his ach.
Fortunately, after retirg at age 27, Burke ught a send wd and domated the Gay Softball World Seri where he kept the practice of givg high-fiv to his teammat.