Basic Gay Language

Contents:

• POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
• THE 55 PHRAS GAY MEN MOST OFTEN GO THROUGH...
• FILIPO GAY LGO EXPLAED FOR THE RT OF THE WORLD
• GAY LANGUAGE A SENTENCE
• GAY LANGUAGE(1,700 WORDS)
• GAY SLANG A SENTENCE

POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE

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THE 55 PHRAS GAY MEN MOST OFTEN GO THROUGH...

Likewise, lol gay lgo (more monly known as "bekispeak") is evolvg. 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.

Polari was spoken to skirt the UK’s strict anti-homosexualy laws.

”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. ”Until 1967, homosexual sex was illegal England and Wal. 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.

FILIPO GAY LGO EXPLAED FOR THE RT OF THE WORLD

Only sce the begng of the 20th century has queer been ed to refer to people who intify as gay or lbian.

Is "homosexual" still e? The standard fn of homosexual is “a person sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex. ” But, ’s typilly applied to men, and lbian is the term for a female homosexual.

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. Bee suggts that beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or of another sexual orientatn is a choice and the person n be “cured. It’s not a gay liftyle.

GAY LANGUAGE A SENTENCE

The word gay refers to a homosexual man, but origally meant “lighthearted, joyful, reee. ” Gay as an adjective meang “homosexual” go back at least to the 1930s. Today, gay liftyle is a monly ed—and mised—term.

In the LGBTQ muny, gay liftyle, as well as homosexual liftyle, are sometim owned upon. It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out. It’s also OK to scribe someone as openly gay, lbian, or bisexual.

GAY LANGUAGE(1,700 WORDS)

But never out someone, or expose their lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr inty, whout permissn.

Banishg the "homosexual agenda". But, people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr also re about a wi variety of other polil, social, and cultural issu.

GAY SLANG A SENTENCE

The term homosexual agenda is ed by anti-gay extremists to create a climate of fear and mistst.

It’s sometim ed as a disparagg way to scribe the recment of heterosexuals to a homosexual liftyle.

All to say, let’s banish homosexual agenda om our vobulary. ” They are often gay but n be a man of any sexual orientatn.

So we're nng a tally of the 55 most tired retorts, tth-ee tisms and tart one- lers om gay life stead!