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Contents:

• POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
• GAY HISTORY: HOW BONA TO VADA YOUR EEK! POLARI – THE GAY LGO
• POLARI: THE LOST LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
• REDISVERG POLARI: HOW THIS SECRET GAY LANGUAGE HELPED CREATE LGBT CULTURE
• FANTABULOSA : A DICTNARY OF POLARI AND GAY SLANG
• POLARI, THE FOTTEN GAY LANGUAGE

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.

GAY HISTORY: HOW BONA TO VADA YOUR EEK! POLARI – THE GAY LGO

”Until 1967, homosexual sex was illegal England and Wal. 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.

Wh words like "sha, " "tea, " and "kiki" proment queer culture, sometim feels like 's impossible for straights to unrstand gays...

But once upon a time, that was exactly what Brish gays wanted. Called Polari, the gay slang is posed of back slang, circ slang, and broken Yiddish and Italian. The "secret language" was ed heavily by gays the circ, navy, and theater, and arose out of the need to discs gay matters unr a clever guise, due to homosexual acts beg illegal Bra until the passage of the Sexual Offens Act 1967.

POLARI: THE LOST LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

Here's some of the amg slang: Basket - the bulge of male genals through clothFantabulos-wonrfulEf - face (backslang) DollyEf - pretty face Chicken - a young guySome Polari words still exist morn gay slang. As gays began to fight for acceptance and rights, they ma a ncentrated effort to remove the Brish society's one-dimensnal view of all gays as beg overly mpy and effemate.

REDISVERG POLARI: HOW THIS SECRET GAY LANGUAGE HELPED CREATE LGBT CULTURE

Check out Atlas Obscura pots out, Polari was a great self-performative outlet for Brish gays to not only exprs themselv but also easily intify and n wh fellow memebers of the queer muny. Polari (or alternatively Parlare, Parlary, Palare, Palarie, Palari; om Italian parlare, “to talk”) is a form of nt slang ed Bra by actors, circ and fairground showmen, merchant navy sailors, crimals, prostut, and the gay subculture.

As many homosexual men worked theatril entertament was also ed among the gay subculture, at a time when homosexual activy was illegal, to disguise homosexuals om hostile outsirs and unrver policemen. It was also ed extensively the Brish Merchant Navy, where many gay men joed ocean lers and cise ships as waers, stewards and entertaers.

[9] On one hand, would be ed as a means of ver to allow gay subjects to be discsed aloud whout beg unrstood; on the other hand, was also ed by some, particularly the most visibly mp and effemate, as a further way of assertg their inty. Polari had begun to fall to dise amongst the gay subculture by the late 1960s. The populary of the Julian and Sandy characters played by Hugh Paddick and Kenh Williams ensured that some of this secret language beme public property, [12] and the gay liberatnists of the 1970s viewed as rather gradg and divisive as was often ed to gossip about, or cricise, others, as well as to discs sexual explos.

FANTABULOSA : A DICTNARY OF POLARI AND GAY SLANG

In addn, the need for a secret subculture cled wh the legalisatn of adult homosexual acts England and Wal 1967. In 2002, two books on Polari were published, Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men, and Fantabulosa: A Dictnary of Polari and Gay Slang (both by Pl Baker). bch – effemate or passive gay man.

blue -, word for “homosexual”[catn need]. HP (homy polone) – effemate gay man. omi-palone – effemate man, or homosexual.

POLARI, THE FOTTEN GAY LANGUAGE

so – homosexual (e. tootsie tra – sex between two passive homosexuals (as : ‘I don’t do tootsie tra’).