Turns out, Barbieland isn't as gay as s queer fans had hoped

Contents:

• GAY DOLL
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• MEET GAY BOB, THE 1977 DOLL THAT URGED PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET

GAY DOLL

Hi, I'm sort of askg this to gay, or gay-iendly members. Is "He's a doll" acceptable gay-speak nowadays? Acrdg to the Urban Dictnary, doll as a "term of greetg for stars of silver stairwells and red eyed rpet til; approved by homosexualists everywhere" gets 5 vot of approval, 63 of disapproval.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

I'm not a gay male, but I'll add this se this is pertent. So, lookg thgs up The Queen's Vernacular, Bce Rodgers's 1972 lexin of gay English, I fd:.

Unfortunately mp slang or gay nt have long sce gone out of style, both thanks to the ongog mastreamg of gay culture, the growg dislike of "feme"-d behavrs gay culture, and the reactn agast 60's-70's gay culture provoked by AIDS.

I thk 's acceptable 'gay-speak', Perpend. I would thk you'd not hear straight guys say , but I uld easily image straight femal or gay men sayg about men. My gay iends are full of such words and exprsns.

MEET GAY BOB, THE 1977 DOLL THAT URGED PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET

I jt asked a gay iend (mid-thirti, Ain-Amerin, liv the Bronx) if he would ever say this, if he's ever heard this, if he uld see ever nng to this, and he said, "No! I agree totally wh Kate (post #6), and I've never heard any gay male iends refer to other mal as "dolls" the sense of appearance.

E., been a iend of Dorothy for que some time, and I do pull out some olr mpy saygs now and aga, and I didn't realize till now, but I hered "doll" this ntext eons ago when I hung out wh olr gays. But let's not jt turn this thread to a bt-of-gay-slang sha-slgg-ssn. It's a wiki article on Polari (known varly as Parlare, Parlary, Palare, Palarie, Palari;om Italian parlare, "to talk"), which is (apparently, at least acrdg to wiki and Slate magaze) slang/nt vobulary ed by var out-of-mastream groups cludg circ/fairground showman and gay men.

I agree that a non-gay ntext JtKate's fn of "nice" is exactly rrect. I'm translatg now betwixt breer- and gay-speak.