The Fotten Secret Language of Gay Men - Atlas Obscura

Contents:

• CATEGORY:GREEK GAY SLANG
• GAY DICTNARY GREEK
• KUNISTóS. GAY DICTNARY (GREECE).
• THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
• GAY SLANG
• GAY DICTNARY
• GAYGREEK
• WAS “DRAMA QUEEN” A GAY SLANG EXPRSN ORIGALLY?

CATEGORY:GREEK GAY SLANG

But first some rmatn about the language and where is is the official language of Greece and Cyps, belongg to the Indo-European fay, and spoken by about fifteen ln Greece, homosexual behavr between men was legal as of 1950 (between women was never prohibed) and the age of nsent was equal 2015. They have anti-discrimatn laws and agast hate speech (2014) and 2015 they approved the civil unn but not homoparental adoptn. At the begng of the century, Greek society had a negative view of sexual diversy, but today that homophobia is beg diluted although persists the polil class.

GAY DICTNARY GREEK

In Greece there is a lot of activism, culture and LGBT bs and pri has been celebrated sce 2005, currently several greece this Greek Gay Dictnary we highlight the exprsns kunistós and digidangas explaed our post kunistós, illtratn of Gay Slang Collectn, and also the exprsn Sikiá explaed on god hat figs, illtratn om our Prott Collectn. Relatg gays to female relativ is a equent fact many languag, such as the Japane word Onee, which means olr sister, or the English word Aunt.

It may have to do wh the suatn that effemate homosexual men lived not many years ago when the bachelorhood and the habatn wh the fay were almost evable issu. The first one is an sult for homosexual men and the send is an sult to men of the asshole or stupid style, although n also be ed lloquially among iends.

This femy is transferred to the Turkish language sce ibne means “feme form of son”, which ends up g as an sult to homosexual men, nsired as stupid or as women. +Ksefoniméni (Ξεφωνημένη)Ksefoniméni (Ξεφωνημένη) uld be translated as a screamg woman and is ed to refer ntemptuoly to homosexual men.

KUNISTóS. GAY DICTNARY (GREECE).

Check our post for the Gay Slang Collectn for more rmatn on this exprsn, and, above all, to know why the sign we have created to illtrate this Greek word is the stctns for the assembly of a seaw. +Lúgra (Λούγκρα)The word Lúgra (Λούγκρα) is a rogatory exprsn agast homosexual men that would have the meang of “very vic homosexual”+Pisoghléntis (Πισωγλέντης)Pisoghléntis (Πισωγλέντης) is a rogatory exprsn whose leral translatn is “rebel back” and is an sult to bottom homosexual men who “like om behd.

+Sikiá (Συκιά)The leral translatn to the English language of Sikiá (Συκιά) is a fig tree, and is also rogatory slang for a homosexual man.

+Tiútos (Τοιούτος)The translatn to the English language of Tiútos (Τοιούτος) is old-fashned and is also rogatory slang for a homosexual man.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

Sners, vic, psi, sick, viants, boxers, football players, puti, Rsian mal, Iranian transsexuals, those who heal homosexualy, and many kd of fags are we buildg up?

GAY SLANG

We prent the stctns for buildg a rockg horse or Kunistós (κουνιστός), illtratn om Gay Slang Collectn by Moss , kunistó out our Greek Gay Dictnary to know more words and tertg to Ey, Dimrs, Jon and Gee P. The word Kunistós ed to attack gay people, turned to a great sign to make an origal gay shirt and discs the nstctn of sexualy. Vada (“look at”), dolly eek (a pretty face), and chicken (a young guy) are all words om the lexin of Polari, a secret language ed by gay men Bra at a time when homosexualy was illegal.

In the 1930s was spoken among the theater typ of the Wt End, om which crossed over to the cy’s gay pubs, gag s stat as the secret language of gay men. In England, homosexualy was officially nsired a crime until 1967, when the Sexual Offenc Act legalized private “homosexual acts” between nsentg adults over 21.

GAY DICTNARY

Durg the terim years, when beg openly non-straight brought the risks of social isolatn and crimal prosecutn, Polari provid gay men wh a subtle way to fd one another for pannship and sex.

The Hidn History of Gay Life at Sea, Pl Baker and Jo Stanley wre that Polari played a role “allowg gay men to nstct a humoroly performative inty for themselv. 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.

GAYGREEK

Julian and Sandy prented a nundm: as lovable gay characters on a very popular show, they enared themselv to Brish dienc an era of homophobia. By the early ‘70s, as LGBT groups fought for rights beyond those granted by the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act, the image of the mp gay man had bee the target of ire.

WAS “DRAMA QUEEN” A GAY SLANG EXPRSN ORIGALLY?

When Ecclton and Fairbairn posted the film onle, they were surprised by the enthiastic rponse—and the level of fascatn wh Polari, this myster, cipherable “gay language.