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Contents:
- REVIEW: ‘KIKI’: THE VOGUEG SCENE, STILL A REFUGE FOR GAY AND TRANSGENR YOUTH
- GAY ANTHEM 'LET'S HAVE A KIKI' IS EVERYONE'S ANTHEM
- IT’S A KIKI!: DEVELOPMENTAL BENEFS OF THE KIKI SCENE FOR BLACK GAY/BISEXUAL/TRANSGENR ADOLCENTS/EMERGG ADULTS
REVIEW: ‘KIKI’: THE VOGUEG SCENE, STILL A REFUGE FOR GAY AND TRANSGENR YOUTH
We seem to be on a drag-related streak here on Word of the Gay, one that's lasted almost an entire year sce our last post June of 2011. Wh the season fale of RuPl's Drag Race Season 4 (nearly) behd , we were spired by st member Sharon Needl and her boyiend Alaska (who… * gay culture kiki *
One of s first known was the 1930s, when kiki was gay slang for a gay male who was fortable beg eher passive or active durg sex.
By the 1940–1950s, kiki was extend to a gay woman who “swched” between the genr inti of “butch” or “fem, ” or women who did not intify wh eher inty the lbian muny. For example, mothers uld have a “mom kiki, ” jt as a group of gay iends uld also have a kiki after dner.
Kiki is different om kaikai, which tradnally refers to two drag queens havg sex wh one another but n also mean terurse between any two gay men. ” However, kiki is often specifilly applied to a group of gay men who are lghg and jokg wh each other. Though data are sparse, studi have found that when gay teens e out to their fay, about a quarter are kicked out, and a third are asslted by parents or regivers.
GAY ANTHEM 'LET'S HAVE A KIKI' IS EVERYONE'S ANTHEM
"Call Me Maybe" has nothg on the Scissor Sisters' "Let's Have a Kiki" as the song of this summer, at least for a certa segment of the populatn. Everywhere you go, some gay person is listeng to or talkg about or listeng to and talkg about or visg a parody to or hijackg bnch wh or jt havg a kiki. Anne Hathaway, a noted iend of iends of Dorothy, ghed about to David Letterman last week. A kiki, as fed by the song is "a party, for lmg all your nerv" full of tea and not lackg sha. You know, gay stuff. * gay culture kiki *
A small group of activists—cludg lears of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and fluential teens and young adults—helped to pneer the kiki scene, which borrows om the legacy of tradnal ballroom culture but sists on a youth-foced learship and cultural inty. “I was once a dark place, ” Zay says, thkg back to his time as a prsed gay boy livg Virgia. Like many margalized groups, members of the kiki scene e their own lgo—sometim lled "gaybonics" by soclogists—and the word cunt is nsired high praise.
IT’S A KIKI!: DEVELOPMENTAL BENEFS OF THE KIKI SCENE FOR BLACK GAY/BISEXUAL/TRANSGENR ADOLCENTS/EMERGG ADULTS
Acrdg to Twiggy Pucci Garçon, the mother of the Hoe of Pucci, an artist, and an activist, the high fectn rat reflect ep srs flicted by homophobia and transphobia. Before Zay moved to New York 2011, he was an anx gay teenager livg Virgia who had jt been diagnosed wh HIV. He effectively supported his hoe members through their difficulti, havg experienced his own share of problems wh racism, homophobia, health problems, and homelsns.
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