In the Philipp, the gay muny, specifilly the male gay muny, has s own unique slang lled gay speak or swardspeak.
Contents:
- SUP? LOOKG? PARTY? A GUI TO GAY APP LGO
- SWARDSPEAK: THE COLORFUL LANGUAGE OF THE FILIPO GAY COMMUNY
- FROM CLOSET TALK TO PC TERMOLOGY : GAY SPEECH AND THE POLICS OF VISIBILY
SUP? LOOKG? PARTY? A GUI TO GAY APP LGO
Sup? Lookg? Party? WEHOville helps you unrstand the gay app lgo. * iso gay slang *
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SWARDSPEAK: THE COLORFUL LANGUAGE OF THE FILIPO GAY COMMUNY
This is the dictnary of gay, lbian, transgenr and bisexuals slang and termology. There are also opns and documentatn about beg gay, virgy, g out, safer sex, AIDS and HIV, pornography, age of nsent (legal age) the world, handkerchief etcetera * iso gay slang *
It is the “gay lgo” or “gay speak” rived om English and Tagalog (one of the languag spoken the Republic of the Philipp) as well as other languag and dialects the Philipp, such as Cebuano, Waray, Bilano and Hiligaynon. Unr an opprsive society where homosexuals and their liftyle are often looked down upon, a need for a language unrstood only by them and perhaps by dividuals iendly to the gay muny, was necsary.
Depuis l’époque où l’homosexualé éta synonyme perversn, voire dél, jqu’x actuell gay pris, la munté gay, lbienne, bisexuelle et transgenre n’a csé développer un langage distctif, le gayspeak. 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.
FROM CLOSET TALK TO PC TERMOLOGY : GAY SPEECH AND THE POLICS OF VISIBILY
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This paper exam the extraordary plexy of sexual orientatns and subcultur as exprsed by “gay speech, ” an idm the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny has veloped for self.
Sce the tim when homosexualy was a perversn to today’s vibrant Pris, gayspeak has been ed to exprs the needs of a group which, feelg socially reprsed, revented and subverted language. 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.
Depuis l’époque où l’homosexualé éta synonyme perversn, voire dél, jqu’x actuell gay pris, la munté gay, lbienne, bisexuelle et transgenre n’a csé développer un langage distctif, le gayspeak. Transgrsant l norm social, ce parler, davantage glossaire qu’idme, permet jourd’hui à la munté LGBT renstire sa propre réalé tout en ouvrant vers nouvell perceptns intair. 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. * iso gay slang *
Givg voice to new perceptns of genr inty while reclaimg offensive terms and a liftyle of their own, gayspeakers are liberately assertg cultural and, to some extent, ant ambns. 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.
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.