Dick Lesch’s Gui to Seventi Gay Slang | The New Yorker

Contents:

• GAY SLANG 101
• GAY SLANG
• DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG
• GAY SLANG: A SECRET LANGUAGE THAT BEGAN AS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE
• FROM CLOSET TALK TO PC TERMOLOGY : GAY SPEECH AND THE POLICS OF VISIBILY
• HOW TO USE TR DIFFERENTLY FOR GAY

GAY SLANG 101

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. Pwnedby I hate them they're gay Febary 19, 2005FlagGet the gay slang slangGettg fucked by the ass afterwards cummg water and cho kHim: I really love gay slangby Anonys Augt 19, 2021FlagGet the gay slang mug.

() 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. ClonThe standardised gay male look In the 70's the look clud a motache, mcle shirt/flannel shirt and Levi's The late 80's - 90's clud short hair, long siburns, whe tee-shirt, shorts/jeans and Doc boots wh grey socks. CSD (German Pris)The abbreviatn CSD stands for Christopher Street Day - a historic day of remembrance of the first known ristance of homosexuals and transsexuals to state and social discrimatn.

GAY SLANG

Faggot (also Fag)A male homosexual Like dyke, this term was origally ed as an ephet, but has been adopted by many of the people to whom refers There is no general agreement about the orig of the term. FairyA male homosexual, pecially one who acts or drs an effemate manner This was a mon rogatory term for homosexuals durg much of the twentieth century Like dyke and faggot, gay people have reclaimed. FluffyTerm ed by lbians Meang a woman is turned on In gay male leather circl, this meant term is meant for someone who isn't to the drs Deriv om the scriptn of someone who wears bulky or "fluffy" sweaters A putdown om a leather man might be: "You look awfully fluffy tonight".

Friend of Dorothy'sReferred to as beg gay This term has roots om Judy Garland, whose mil abily and tragic life story were so popular wh gay dienc and of urse om, "The Wizard of Oz", the classic mil.

DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG

HodophobiaNot to be nfed wh “homophobia, ” which is an aversn or hostily to, disda for, or fear of gay sexual orientatn or gay people, “hodophobia” actually refers to an irratnal or disproportnate fear of travelg.

HomophobiaIrratnal fear of gay people and of homosexualy Gee Weberg, thor of Society and the Healthy Homosexual, ed this word the early 1970's It filled a need for a gay people at that time bee, one word, eloquently nveyed the ia that was gay-bashers, not gays themselv, who had a problem.

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

Laddie or LassieA term ed to intify children wh gay parents The term began wh a negative nnotatn assumg that the child would also be gay or lbian It has been reclaimed as an affectnate term and a way of children beg able to '' or intify each other public.

LbianA gay woman The ancient Greek poet Sappho lived on the island of Lbos As Sappho beme known for her poems celebratg love between women, the term lbian changed s primary meang om 'one who liv on Lbos' to 'a woman like Sappho and her followers'. QueenAn effemate gay man Gay men who aspire to royalty will be disappoted to learn that this age of the word queen is only a distant relative of the queen who ss on a throne It is lguistilly closer to queen - a disparagg word for an unpleasant or promiscuo woman, datg to the sixteenth century. Signifint OtherA partner a ser relatnship In the early 1970s, unhappy wh terms such as lover, girliend, and boyiend for scribg same-sex partners, some gay men and lbians began g the term "Signifint Other".

FROM CLOSET TALK TO PC TERMOLOGY : GAY SPEECH AND THE POLICS OF VISIBILY

TwkTwk is a gay slang term ed to refer to a young (18 to early 20s) homosexual man wh certa outward characteristics, such as an effemate manner, a th build, no body or facial hair, which all ntribute to a youthful look.

UrngDerived - A homosexual male Karl Herich Ulrichs troduced this term 1864 as part of his theory of homosexualy Ulrichs, who was himself homosexual, was attemptg to expla homosexualy a posive light. ”In 1959, when Lesch was twenty-four, he left his fay home, Kentucky, for New York Cy, where he found work as a pater, a bartenr, a rator, a journalist, and as the unpaid print of the Mattache Society, one of the first gay-rights anizatns. When the Stonewall rts broke out, three years later, he was the only openly gay reporter on the scene, verg the event for a new gay-focsed magaze lled The a recent Friday eveng, Lesch’s buzzer rang.

” Some of the fns were more nuanced: an “ntie, ” Lesch had wrten, was “an ageg or middle aged homosexual, offtim effemate character, ” or “a person of settled meanor who utns agast temperate acts. Photograph by Rebec FudalaNext up was Lesch’s llectn of magaz and newsletters, cludg After Dark (“Oh, bls you—they’re real llector’s ems, ” Bmann said); Christopher Street (“We have the archiv”); Female Mimics (“That’s fabulo”); the 1969 Time issue on homosexualy (“Cute”); and the monthly bullet for the Mattache Society. ” 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.

HOW TO USE TR DIFFERENTLY FOR GAY

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.

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. 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.