The Fotten Secret Language of Gay Men - Atlas Obscura

Contents:

• GAY DICTNARY ITALIAN
• FOCCH. GAY DICTNARY (ITALY).
• THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
• HOW TO SAY GAY ITALIAN
• GAY SLANG: A SECRET LANGUAGE THAT BEGAN AS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE
• ITALIAN TRANSLATN OF 'GAY'
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH-ITALIAN DICTNARY
• HOW TO SAY GAY ITALIAN
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ITALIAN–ENGLISH DICTNARY
• HOW TO SAY GAY ITALIAN?GEɪGAY
• GAYSPEAK AND GAY SUBJECTS AUDVISUAL TRANSLATN: STRATEGI ITALIAN DUBBG
• FRASI SUI GAY

GAY DICTNARY ITALIAN

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.

FOCCH. GAY DICTNARY (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). However, at that time Focch meant silly man, worthls, spible, untstworthy, etc., negative characteristics of men that were attributed to homosexuals by the simple fact of beg gay.

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.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

Dpible man or small man: om the Froc exprsn, or s variatns, would be ed to ll foreigners, uld also be ed to name the spible man general, and th by extensn, ed for homosexual men. +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.

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. 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 SLANG: A SECRET LANGUAGE THAT BEGAN AS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE

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. The "secret language" was ed heavily by gays the circ, navy, and theater, and arose out of the need to discs gay matters unr a clever guise, due to homosexual acts beg illegal Bra until the passage of the Sexual Offens Act 1967.

Here's some of the amg slang: Basket - the bulge of male genals through clothFantabulos-wonrfulEf - face (backslang) DollyEf - pretty face Chicken - a young guySome Polari words still exist morn gay slang. Check out Atlas Obscura pots out, Polari was a great self-performative outlet for Brish gays to not only exprs themselv but also easily intify and n wh fellow memebers of the queer muny. Vada (“look at”), dolly eek (a pretty face), and chicken (a young guy) are all words om the lexin of Polari, a secret language ed by gay men Bra at a time when homosexualy was illegal.

ITALIAN TRANSLATN OF 'GAY'

Durg the terim years, when beg openly non-straight brought the risks of social isolatn and crimal prosecutn, Polari provid gay men wh a subtle way to fd one another for pannship and sex. In the late ‘60s, as gay liberatn groups were fightg for regnn and equaly, Polari h mastream Brish pop-culture the form of Julian and Sandy, two flamboyant, not-officially-but-pretty-obvly gay characters on a BBC rad show lled Round the Horne. Dolan brgs up the pot that gay men shouldn’t have to be “straight-actg” orr to be accepted: “Might not be more fun to embrace a b more mp and actually have fun wh ourselv and wh each other?

” Combg the vernaculars of sailors wh a mix of Cockney and Yiddish fluenc, gay men also began to throw a sprkle of classroom-level French to add eher sophistitn or an ironic tone of refement, whichever the speaker choos.

Gay slang, origally born on the outskirts of society as a means of formg a secret nnectn between different members of varyg ostracized muni, is today rightly valued as a powerful cultural fluencer of how morn Wtern society evaluat and exam art, culture, and media.

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH-ITALIAN DICTNARY

As gay slang be more and more graed to the heteronormative lexin, is imperative to pay rpect by takg the time to unrstand that there have been centuri of folx who helped give vobulary to what was prevly unfed. 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). Search for Synonyms for GAYSearch for Anagrams for GAYQuot ntag the term GAYSearch for Phras ntag the term GAYSearch for Poems ntag the term GAYSearch for Scripts ntag the term GAYSearch for Abbreviatns ntag the term GAYWhat rhym wh GAY?

HOW TO SAY GAY ITALIAN

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.

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.

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ITALIAN–ENGLISH DICTNARY

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.

HOW TO SAY GAY ITALIAN?GEɪGAY

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. 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. 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.

FRASI SUI GAY

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.

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.