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Contents:

• T GAY
• ANCH ICH? BEKIMON, OR THE SECRET OF GAYS
• POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
• GAY SLANG 101
• LEARNG GAY LGO: A STARTER GUI!
• FILIPO GAY LGO EXPLAED FOR THE RT OF THE WORLD
• GAY (ADJ.)
• GAY LGO DICTNARY
• GAYT
• DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG

T GAY

() Wh a transgenr woman  Congrs and the immense populary of shows like Queer Eye and RuPl's Drag Race, gay culture is currently at the foreont of mastream Filipo nscns a way has never been before.

Provg jt how funny the evolutn of language n be, achoo is the newt eratn of the classic beki term "pamta, " which refers to gay men who seem like they're straight. Begng 1981, the perd of several years over which HIV/AIDS spread rapidly among the gay muny.

Thoands of gay people lost their liv to AIDS-related illns durg the 1980s, at a time when the ndn was unr-rearched and nsired untreatable. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny. While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym.

ANCH ICH? BEKIMON, OR THE SECRET OF GAYS

As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn. And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”.

For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive.

POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE

Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist).

GAY SLANG 101

They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police. Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer. Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.”.

LEARNG GAY LGO: A STARTER GUI!

However, unlike homosexual, has been wily reappropriated by the LGBTQ muny as a label.

Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man. In 1990, this effort foced on queer as a llective term for gay and lbian people. Queer was seen as a way to refer to gays and lbians whout beg genr-sentialist or g divisns wh the muny.

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FILIPO GAY LGO EXPLAED FOR THE RT OF THE WORLD

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GAY (ADJ.)

Published Augt 12, 2010 2:50pm If you don’t unrstand the phrase “pasok sa banga" (rough English translatn: fs si the jar), maybe you are not gay or a fag hag (a woman who lik to act gay or hang out wh screamg gays). Bekimon om two words: “becky or beki, " gay speak for “bakla" or young gays, and “jejemon, " which refers to the strange text and Inter language that has gaed wispread age among izens and mobile phone ers the Philipp.

It is the new term for gay lgo or gay speak, the betiful and nfg (to those who are uniated) and very gay ( the old sense of the word) languag of the bakla, the agí, and the bayot of this fabulo, fabulo Philippe archipelago.

GAY LGO DICTNARY

As “a gay t has ne liv, " like so: “Paglalapi" or g suffix that do not have a grammatil functn.

Bee there are many Filipo transsexuals workg Japan, several Nihonggo words have also entered the bekimon vobulary cludg “otoko" for man, “okama" for gay, and “watashi" for “me. Fernanz, bekimon is a procs of dg the gay experience: “Itatago ang tunay na anyo ng sala upang hdi matdihan.

GAYT

" For him, bekimon is a subversn of the homophobic society, pecially the Catholic church. He add that gayspeak giv people the eedom to live out the gay experience, or “stmento ng mga bakla sa pakikunggali sa mapang-apg lipunan. " Ined, bekimon provis a space for gays to talk about their liv whout beg unrstood by heterosexuals around them, many of whom are homophobic.

The lecture end wh a vio prentatn of a gay father sldg his son bekimon for not addg “her" as a iend on Facebook. “You should not make a dictnary of gay words bee will fy the purpose of gayspeak—that is to e a language like a secret , " he said, sg sweetly. ”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.

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.

DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG

A term ed by the gays to scribe someone or somethg that posss powerful and or betiful qualy.

Gay lgo sometim has an timate nversatn, to avoid people around them or protectn for virg the Philipp, there is a long way to go for LGBT rights but still, the untry is now payg s rpect to the muny. (Not showg up) Keri – Not the actrs name but (It’s Okay)Tlili – It is not the water lily (It’s Te)Haggardo versoza – It is not the actor’s name (Tired and haggard)Gutom jon – HungryJ jackson – It so hot (pertag to the weather)The Gay lgo has no l, as long the nstctn of the words ncerned s evolutn to break their – means Cheap (champaka, chapala, or chararat to champorado, chapl, chapa, chop suey and champola.