The Fotten Secret Language of Gay Men - Atlas Obscura

Contents:

• POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
• THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
• THIS SECRET LANGUAGE ALLOWED GAY MEN TO COMMUNITE WHEN HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL
• THE FETS AND JABS OF POLARI, BRA’S GAY SLANG
• GAY DICTNARY ENGLISH
• GAY BRA GLOSSARY
• GAY UNED KGDOM
• GAY DICTNARY
• HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
• REMEMBERG POLARI, THE FOTTEN LANGUAGE OF BRA'S GAY COMMUNY

POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE

”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.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

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. There’s a nflatn of genr and sexualy here which om some later perspectiv might be seen as problematic—to say that a gay man is lerally a man-woman keys to negative stereotyp about gay men as effemate or women trapped men’s bodi.

” She-g is one of the aspects of Polari that has survived to more recent s, and the practice was so pervasive at a particular bar on Canal Street Manchter’s Gay Village that a “She-box” was stalled a few years ago, ak to a “Swear-box, ” where patrons would have to put a few s if they she’d someone, wh the proceeds beg donated to chary.

THIS SECRET LANGUAGE ALLOWED GAY MEN TO COMMUNITE WHEN HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL

Internalized homophobia or jt pla nasts might make the tra attack their sexual partner or mand money om them, hence the term rough tra, although this term uld also refer more generally to workg-class sual male partners. Quent Crisp, spe beg a mp gay man, did not really e Polari his tobgraphi, although the televised dramatizatn of The Naked Civil Servant he do refer to roughs—aggrsively mascule workg-class men who disguised their attractn to other men through harassment: “Some roughs are really queer and some queers are really rough.

In his current rearch, Leap is lookg at Harleme, the language of the Harlem Renaissance, where he c a rich and dynamic queer prence and a manner of speakg that, while beg not exclively queer, has fluenced both gay and mastream language to this day.

THE FETS AND JABS OF POLARI, BRA’S GAY SLANG

She-g appears almost universally and across centuri gay language, om Pe to the Philipp to South Ai (where gay slang is lled Gayle), to Israel (lled oxtch, rived om an Arabic word meang "my sister"), to Soviet-era Rsia. But Put's Rsia, where the environment remas extremely hostile for LGBT people, the webse, acrdg to a paper by rearcher Stephan Nance, lists a urse on how to speak prent-day Rsian gay, a slang lled goluboy -- om a word related to the bluish lor of a dove -- prumably to help gay Rsians intify one another. ") Denis Provencher, partment head of French and Italian at the Universy of Arizona, has yet to intify a siar argot as Polari or rearch to gay-specific slang French, where disurse, typil French fashn, operat as more waltz than stri.

" While vobulary might be the most fun part of lavenr lguistics for the layperson, scholars are ncerned wh aspects such as tone, flectn, and gturg, as well as the polil and cultural implitns of language -- how the prs wre about LGBT issu, for example, or how queer people munite wh each other privately and at work, or how gay language is learned. Ntie – bear – benr – bottom – bum band – bum chum – bumr – bummer – butch – butt hugger – rpet muncher – tcher – chaser – chickenhawk – chicken hawk – cub – drag kg – dyke – fag – faggot – Fairy – femme – flamer – u – fudge packer – gay – gaylord – girliend – GLBT – hasbian – homo – homo thug – the closet – jobby jabber – lemon – lez – lipstick lbian – mge muncher – mo – nellie – nelly – Peter Puffer – pole smoker – poof – Poofter – power top – puff – queer – shirt lifter – sister – versatile – wasbian. Although is a term ed the 80s gay bashg, Anal buckaneer refers to the active (top) role sexual relatns, that some sense is mascule and virile, and is opposed, for example, to Ass boy (one man rced to a sgle part of his body, the ass, ma available to anyone who wants to fuck him), that the same way serve to sult gays but would tablish a different tegory, bee a boy is ls manly than a bucneer or a band.

Dpe as faggot is the top as the bottom, sults let read between the l, that the classil systems of homosexual behavr, the teacher-pupil and master-slave, still force today, so exprsns for top gay are ls rogatory than the exprsns for bottoms. +Beard LadyThe leral translatn of the exprsn Beard lady would be Miss Beard, and is an exprsn of the gay jargon ed to name women ed by homosexual men as rercement of masculy to avoid spicns about their homosexualy. Female prostutn is also prent at the orig of many sults for homosexuals, pecially wh passive sexual role, bee many of the terms, related to prostutn, for attackg women, are ed to sult gay men bee they are nsired as the worst kd of women.

GAY DICTNARY ENGLISH

But we do not know if s relatnship wh homosexualy om the flower and s relatn wh femy, or om one of s leral meang, cup of butter, relatg the cup wh the ass, or also om s relatn wh the butt, slang of ass. And this happened a historil ntext which the Romans, men who had active/top sex wh men, had transformed the Greek mol of the homosexual relatnship, the master-pupil, to the master-slave mol.

Related Buttercup, Pansy, Tulip+Degenerate Amerin slang tak on the meang of effemate man or boy, homosexual that has lost s valu or have certa philias as cropofagia, goln shower or necrophilia. Related Bag lady (ugly or unpleasant Drag Queen), Barbie (foolish Drag Queen), Bean Queen, Bone smuggler, DQ (acronym), San Francis clon (exprsn of the gay jargon to name the Drag Queens or very mascule lbians). By ntrast, the terms for homosexuals wh active (top) sexual role, rarely volve the loss of femy or masculy, which uld rerce the ia that homosexual behavr is more abundant than might seem, nsirg that sults for active (top) men anal terurse generally have a radilly different tone and stead of beg “like women” are bands, pirat, bucneers, thiev, etc.

However facultative homosexualy exprs the ia that a hererosexual man n show homosexual clatns and have sexual sire for a man and act acrdgly, and after his release om prison back to his heterosexual life.

GAY BRA GLOSSARY

Synonyms Mary of the cloth+Flip-flopFlip-flop is an exprsn of gay slang ditg that a person is bisexual or versatile their sexual relatnships, as people monly e to scribe a radil change, a 180-gree change, or a change of heart. Related Buttercup, Daisy, Pansy, Tulip+FluteFlute (and Fluter) is a phemistic term for appotg a homosexual man, possibly bee the 18th century was a slang for penis and later the 20th century was also related to fellat.

GAY UNED KGDOM

The orig of this exprsn is found neighborg Mexi, where the same exprsn is ed Spanish, due to a sndal that occurred 1901 Mexi Cy, where 41 homosexuals, many of well-to-do class, were imprisoned due to a dance private, which almost half were men drsed as women.

“Marin, lagartijos, jotos, muy chulos y queton”Men drsed as women sweepg while beg watched by police and the crowd around themRelated: JotoSee: LGBT rights Mexi acrdg to Wikipedia+Freakwe know this word the sense of someone wh great enthiasm and affy for somethg, but also has the meang of strange, weird, unual, etc., characteristics tradnally been assigned homosexual men, and this is why you n fd wh this meang. +GayIts the most universal and ternatnally way to name homosexual men, that is, men who show clatn towards erotic and emotnal relatnship wh dividuals of the same Gay Dictnary+Gay tterm ed om 1902 to refer to a young homosexual. +Girlparadigmatic exprsn ed for appotg a homosexual man, pecially for effemate on and also wh passive (bottom) sexual key to unrstandg the large number of exprsns for passive (bottom) or effemate gays is the supposed reversal of genr and sex rol when someone tak, or seems to have, a behavr nsired “natural” or “appropriate” for the oppose sex.

Many slang terms for passive homosexual personify directly as a vaga or an (Gash, Boy-psy, Bumboy); Another mon procre is to e a word that has female reference as is the e of a woman’s name (Mary, Pansy, Marjery); or n be any of the large number of words monly ed for women (fem, bich, wife); or else a word that refers to the stereotypil female behavr (limp-wrist, fl, swish). The leral terpretatn would be “silly kisser”, which uld refer to the ntrast between the hardns of tck drivers and gays, however “goober” sailor’s slang means ck, so the sense of Goober Smoocher uld be to “ck-sucker” very enthiastic or applied. Mce a sense rrponds to the stereotype of the ga of homosexuals, so ually this word is related to homosexualy, even wh the gay muny, as Cape Town (South Ai), which n be ed to name passive homosexuals.

GAY DICTNARY

1 Motherthis is an exprsn wh multiple applitns bee n be ed to appot a homosexual or effemate man, also to ll the olst of a group of gays, and even for the person who troduced other the gay world.

HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG

Related Buttercup, Daisy, Tulip+Part of the pileexprsn ed New Orleans, be “part of the pile”, is to be part of the group of gay guys, siar to the Spanish exprsn “ser l grem” (be of the unn). The word Pato were ed to ll clumsy men, boobi, teased, etc., negative characteristics that always have been led to gay men and is, this procs of intifyg, where is the orig of this exprsn to sult gays Lat Ameri, which e has spread to other Pato drawg prted on a whe t-shirt.

Most sults to effemate men and passive sexual role homosexuals, have their orig the procs of makg them women, and one of the ways is by a word referrg to the stereotypil female behavr, such as word Swish. +Three-letter manexprsn of the 30s om the spe of the male schools, to dite that someone was gay, bee the word Fag has 3 letters, and om the ctom of qualifyg or reward wh letters, sportg or amic achievements.

REMEMBERG POLARI, THE FOTTEN LANGUAGE OF BRA'S GAY COMMUNY

Synonyms Active, Arse-kg, Arse Band, Ass band, arse-burglar, Ass rair, Back-door man, Backgammoner, Bang artist (Bang is the bottom, the passive anal terurse), Biscu-band (ke is jargon of an), BK (Acronym ed ads Uned Kgdom), Bodyguard (the late 60), Booty-band (booty means ltle ass), Boretto ma (ltle bore), Borg a bud (drill), Bottle opener), Brown artist (mid-60s, brown are faec), Brown hatter (mid-60), Brownie kg (Uned Kgdom), Bucket ( om slang for ass or om a type of stroyer ship), Buey, Bugger, Buggeranto, Bum-fugger, Bummer, Bun-band, Bunny ke, Deaye dick, Dirt tamper (40s, ass sabotr), Dirt-track rir, Dung-pher, Eye doctor (where is the eye of the ass), Forty-ner (Name who received the first searchers the gold sh, which the 40s was ed for active gays), Ganr, Gonif (thief, sundrel, swdler), Gooser (50s, which touch the ass), Greek, Gut-reamer (Stretcher tt), Gut-stretcher (Stretcher tt), Gut-stuffer (filler tt), Humper and a pumper (70s, who tch and pump), Inspector of manhol, Keter-band (om back), Kg (late 60s San Diego), Knight of the goln gmmet (goln gmmet would be the an), Mer (mid 60s, Pch o Pcher (om baseball), Poo-jabber, Pratt-man (pratt means ass), Pratt-hunter, Rear specialist, Rir, Rg snatcher (rg kidnapper, were rg means an), Sodome, Tom fucker (om Uned Kgdom), Top drawer (first class), Turd-packer (turd is a piece of sh). +UranianThe exprsn Uranian is an archaic term ed to name homosexual men and is a loan word om the German language Urngtum, created 1864 by the homosexual activist Karl Herich Ulrichs (1825-1895).

Wolfenn Report - aka the Report of the Departmental Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn published 1957 after a number of proment dividuals cludg John Gielgud, Alan Turg, Lord Montagu of Beli, Michael Pt-Rivers and Peter Wilblood were tried and nvicted of homosexual offenc. Molly and tommy: In 18th century England, the term molly was ed for male homosexuals, implyg effemacy; Tommy, a slang term for a homosexual woman e by 1781, may have been ed by analogy wh molly. EnciclopædiaHow to say gayOne of the most important parts of the Moss Color project is the creatn of a dictnary wh the majory of the words and exprsns ed to attack sexual diversy, formed by a Gay Dictnary, a Lbian Dictnary and an LGBT Gay Dictnary is posed by 68 dictnari rrpondg to each of the piled languag, wh more than 1500 terms and exprsns that speak of sex and love between men, and that sometim also speak of bisexual men and transgenr and Maricón are words that we expla the Gay makg ofOur dictnari are not a mere llectn of words piled whout rhyme or reason the work and prted texts.