Learn Polari, the Secret Language of the Gays

Contents:

• GAY SLANG 101
• FILIPO GAY LGO EXPLAED FOR THE RT OF THE WORLD
• POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
• LEARNG GAY LGO: A STARTER GUI!
• PHILIPPE GAY LANGUAGE: A PIDG
• GAY DICTNARY
• CATEGORY:TAGALOG GAY SLANG

GAY SLANG 101

() Wh a transgenr woman  Congrs and the immense populary of shows like Queer Eye and RuPl's Drag Race, gay culture is currently at the foreont of mastream Filipo nscns a way has never been before. Provg jt how funny the evolutn of language n be, achoo is the newt eratn of the classic beki term "pamta, " which refers to gay men who seem like they're straight.

GLAAD prefers that we don’t e the term homosexual bee ’s “aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred. It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out. But, people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr also re about a wi variety of other polil, social, and cultural issu.

FILIPO GAY LGO EXPLAED FOR THE RT OF THE WORLD

”That may seem like a strg of nonsense words om Dr Sss’s The Cat the Hat or Anthony Burgs’s A Clockwork Orange but ’s a real-life greetg gay men the UK would say to each other the 1950s and 60s. To avoid imprisonment, gay men ed Polari, a language that the Oxford English Dictnary says is “ma up of Italianate phras, rhymg slang and nt terms. This is a group that was referred to as the “gay muny” the past but has sce evolved to a larger group of acronyms that are more clive.

LGBT — Abbreviatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (often ed to enpass sexual preference and genr inti that do not rrpond to heterosexual norms). “The term “sexual preference” is typilly ed to suggt that beg lbian, gay or bisexual is a choice and therefore n and should be “cured. ” Sexual orientatn is the accurate scriptn of an dividual’s endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or oppose sex and is clive of lbians, gay men, bisexuals, as well as straight men and women.

“Abily to be an ally to people of lor, women and lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenred, queer, qutng and tersex dividuals and their alli (LGBTQIA). “Abily to be an ally to people of lor, women and lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, qutng, tersex, transgenr people and their alli (LGBTQIA). From s grassroots begngs obscure parlors around the cy has filtrated the tri-media and is now beg spoken or unrstood or both by every Juan, Juana, Nene and Boy the everyone n now speak this once hard to break “gay of munitn”.

POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE

I was then workg a gay domated bs - entertament what else - but everyone else seemed to be speakg this queer tongue; straight men clud. Gay words and terms are beg born every mute and thrown om every rner of the room that you have to tch up quickly or forever be lost the labyrth. ”“Hoy, i-ready na ang pang-Janno Gibbs sa prs ha”“Anong oras na ba, Tom Jon na ako e”If you thk about , gay lgo is nothg but a hilar play of words.

But my pricels associatn and iendships wh the queer folks and wh the help of the ter, I have a vobulary every newbie would want to / Ach — ano (what) / whichBalaj — balahura (shamels)Bter Ompo — malungkot (sad) / nagnggng (fumg mad) / bterBaklah / Baklh — ed stead of one’s name, may refer to any genrGivency / Janno Gibbs / Debbie Gibson — bigay (to give)That’s Entertament / Anda / Andalucia / Anju / Anjo Yllaña — datung (money)Fatale — sobra (excsive) / to the maxFeel / Fillet o’ Fish — type / gto / natipuhan (like)Fly — alis (leave)Forever — palagi (always) / matagal / mabagal (slow)Pagoda Cold Wave Lotn — pagod (tired)Washgton / Wishg / Wish — wala (nothg or none)Chanda Romero — tiyan (tummy)Mahalia Jackson — mahal (expensive)Kuya Germs — madumi (dirty) / bearer of germsLucria Kasilag — laret / baliw (crazy)Luca Soriano — loser na sorry paLuz Valz — matalo (to lose)Wnie Santos — manalo (to w)Award — pagalan / pagsabihan (reprimand)Fretyle — slow makagets (to unrstand) / slowImbey / Im — imbyerna (irratn)Jowa / Jowabell / Jowabella — karelasyon / BF or GFKape / Capucco / Coffeemate — magisg ka sa katotohanan (be realistic)Lupa Kashiwahara — malup (cel)Ra Gomez — nakaka-ira (irratg personaly)Enter the Dragon / Entourage — pasok (to enter) / e Julie Andrew / Jola Magdangal — mahuli (ught the act)Antibtic — antipatika (bch)48 Years / 50 Goln Years / 10, 000 — matagal (after a long time)Crayola — iyak (to cry)Thunrts / Chanliers / Masyonda — matanda (old people)Wrangler — gurang (also means old)Jubis / Juba — taba (fatso)Jutay / Jut — mali (small)Kangkang — sexReyna Elena — ulan (to ra)X-Men — datg lalaki (formerly a man) now gayMorayta / Murriah Carrey — mura (cheap)Pamtang Durog / Pamenthols — closet gays / actg as menBackstreet Boys — cute boys at the backChimey Cricket — chimay (maid)Goodbye Slay — goodbyeFayatollah Kumenis — payat (skny)Ananda — ahas (a snake) / traorAnong petsa na? )Pura Kalaw — walang pera (broke) / mahirap (poor)Ri Peralejo — mayaman (rich, om the Spanish word ri)Chova / Chovale Kyle — chika lang (small talk)Cookie Chua / Cookie Monster — magluto (to ok)Clasmat / Klasmat — classmateCynthia Lter — hdi kilalang babae o lalake (unknown she or he)Daot — sulto (sult)Eksena / Eksenadora — mahilig pumapel / mahilig sumabat (someone who always lik to figure a scene)Emote — mag-arte pa r (one who is over-actg)Karir/Career — seryoso ang isang bagay like BF or work (to be serly volved)Lafang — ka (eat)Lapel — malakas ang bos (someone wh a loud voice)Carry / Keri / Cash & Carry — sige (OK or alright)Cathy Dennis — “makati” (isky) or promiscuoChar / Charot / Charg / Charbroiled — not okLiberty / Statue of Liberty — libre (ee)Okray — panirang puri (cricize)Lucky Home Partner — live- partnerIn Fairns — pampalubag loob (to nsole)Compared to Lugaw — ka wala (better than nothg)Blame on the ‘Parlor-ista gays”. But tth be told, gay lgo/swardspeak/gayspeak is now the mastream of Filipo nscns and munitn and shows no sign of fadg.

LEARNG GAY LGO: A STARTER GUI!

AdvertisementSKIP WisemanJune 21, 2018Updated on June 7, 2019When I me out as gay more than 10 years ago, there were only four letters monly ed to group var sexual and genr mori: L, G, B and letters were an evolutn toward cln — an expansn of the language ed to reprent a disparate group that had often jt been lled “the gay muny. We have updated this list to reflect more mon them among the follows is a by-no-means clive list of AND LESBIAN It’s important to start wh the basics, and “gay” and “lbian” are as basic as gets. As “homosexual” began to feel clil and pejorative, gay beme the rigur mastream term to refer to same-sex attractn the late 1960s and early ’70s.

PHILIPPE GAY LANGUAGE: A PIDG

Gradually, as what was then lled the gay liberatn movement gaed steam, the phrase “gay and lbian” beme more popular as a way to highlight the siar-yet-separate issu faced by women the fight for is still sometim ed as an umbrella term, but the days, also refers specifilly to men, as “gay men and lbians. It is not a way statn om straight to gay, as had once been stereotyp around bisexualy — that ’s a transnal stage or a ver for promiscuy — have been at the center of ght nversatn wh L. The article suggts preferred termology and also prents ways of creasg the visibily of lbians, gay men, and bisexual persons language.

Comments were soliced om the Amerin Psychologil Associatns (APA's) Divisn 44 and om the Associatn of Lbian and Gay Psychologists.

GAY DICTNARY

Problems occur language ncerng lbians, gay men, and bisexual persons when the language is too vague or the ncepts are poorly fed.

Language may be ambiguo reference, so that the rear is uncerta about s meang or s cln and excln creria; and the term homosexualy has been associated the past wh viance, mental illns, and crimal behavr, and the negative stereotyp may be perpetuated by biased language.

CATEGORY:TAGALOG GAY SLANG

The term sexual orientatn is preferred to sexual preference for psychologil wrg and refers to sexual and affectnal relatnships of lbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual people.

The word preference suggts a gree of voluntary choice that is not necsarily reported by lbians and gay men and that has not been monstrated psychologil rearch. The terms lbian sexual orientatn, heterosexual sexual orientatn, gay male sexual orientatn, and bisexual sexual orientatn are preferable to lbianism, heterosexualy, homosexualy, and bisexualy. Lbian and gay male are preferred to the word homosexual when ed as an adjective referrg to specific persons or groups, and the terms lbians and gay men are preferred to homosexuals ed as nouns when referrg to specific persons or groups.

The terms gay male and lbian refer primarily to inti and to the morn culture and muni that have veloped among people who share those inti. However, the terms may be ambiguo reference bee rears who are ed to the term lbian and gay may assume that gay refers to men only.