"Ooh! Isn't he bold?" as Julian and Sandy would say to "Mr. 'Orne" the heyday of Polari, or the old Brish gay slang. Julian and Sandy's e of Polari on the BBC rad edy "Round the Horne" troduced Polari to a mass dience, intifyg them as gay to those the know. Round the Horne's e of ultimately led to Polari's near-mise as a means of munitn between gay men. I su…
Contents:
- THE GAY LIFE OF KENH WILLIAMS
- POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
- KENH WILLIAMS: INIC GAY COMEDY ACTOR
THE GAY LIFE OF KENH WILLIAMS
Bgrapher Christopher Stevens has unvered the pth of the star's iendship wh a young gay uple who have never spoken publicly before and who were wns to Williams's long and bter stggle wh his sexual inty.
POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
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.
KENH WILLIAMS: INIC GAY COMEDY ACTOR
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. Williams is also scribed as never beg able to e to terms wh his homosexualy. Although often perceived as gay, Williams on var ocsns claimed that he was fact asexual.