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Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and sexism currently serve as the basis for some of the most popular fns on the se.
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“A lot of drag forms started among Ain Amerin drag queens, which then spread and beme wily appropriated, ” says Rty Barrett, a lguistics profsor at the Universy of Kentucky and thor of From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Genr, and Gay Male Subcultur. “Ain Amerin women particular were symbolic of a strong femy, and beme a way for gay men to claim femy a stance agast straight ias of masculy. ”The exprsns that drag held onto reflected the same flair that gay men were lookg for the mid-20th century when they picked up French words to ga a certa je ne sais quoi.
(“Miss Piggy spoke 1940s gay, ele English, ” Leap says.
) It also mirrors aspects of Polari, a form of tense slang that gay men the UK ed before homosexualy was crimalized 1967—a mix of Italian, Yiddish, and Romani that, like drag's vernacular, was ed to help intify other members of the embattled subculture, and even encrypt their drag pageants started up the 1970s, performers once aga began termglg and blendg slang as they had for the drag balls the 1920s.
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Inspired by dancers the unrground gay scene, Madonna hired drag ball regulars to teach her how to do and released her song “Vogue” 1990. When someone try’s to fer you are gay even after you have told them you are not.
A form of teasg where a iend might nstantly imply you are gay for what you do.