Learn Polari, the Secret Language of the Gays

Contents:

• POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
• THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
• GAY SLANG: A SECRET LANGUAGE THAT BEGAN AS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE

POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE

Only sce the begng of the 20th century has queer been ed to refer to people who intify as gay or lbian. Is "homosexual" still e?

The standard fn of homosexual is “a person sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex. ” But, ’s typilly applied to men, and lbian is the term for a female homosexual. GLAAD prefers that we don’t e the term homosexual bee ’s “aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

Bee suggts that beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or of another sexual orientatn is a choice and the person n be “cured. It’s not a gay liftyle. The word gay refers to a homosexual man, but origally meant “lighthearted, joyful, reee.

” Gay as an adjective meang “homosexual” go back at least to the 1930s.

Today, gay liftyle is a monly ed—and mised—term.

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

In the LGBTQ muny, gay liftyle, as well as homosexual liftyle, are sometim owned upon. It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out. It’s also OK to scribe someone as openly gay, lbian, or bisexual.

But never out someone, or expose their lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr inty, whout permissn. Banishg the "homosexual agenda". But, people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr also re about a wi variety of other polil, social, and cultural issu.

The term homosexual agenda is ed by anti-gay extremists to create a climate of fear and mistst.