Heavily ed by Brish gays the 1920s bee of anti-homosexual laws, efforts are beg ma to prerve an entirely queer-based slang.
Contents:
- GAY CHICKEN ED MEANG
- THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
- CHICKEN (GAY SLANG)
- CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
- GAY CHICKEN
- GAY CHICKEN
GAY CHICKEN ED MEANG
* chicken in gay lingo *
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. 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.
THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
Chicken n be ed, ually by gay men referrg to other gay men, to mean a young gay man or young-appearg gay man. Author Bce Rodgers f the term as "1. any boy unr the age of nsent, heterosexual, fair of face, and unfaiar wh homosexualy 2. juvenile, youthful, young-lookg." In the subculture of the gay muny which handkerchiefs or bandanas as a , people who intify as "Chicken" wear a Kewpie doll their left back pocket. Those who are terted young men - referred to as chickenhawks—are noted the hanky as wearg one on the right. * chicken in gay lingo *
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. Kty puncher or psy puncher wh both kty and psy referrg to a woman's vaga and puncher a variatn on var rogatory terms for gay men like donut puncher et al. Cockstctn worker (referrg to a gay man who is a nstctn worker)[36].
Gaysian, referrg to a gay Asian[52]. Gym Bunny, often referrg to a gay man who obssively works out at the gym. Oklahomo[65].
CHICKEN (GAY SLANG)
This is a list of slang and/or sultg terms for LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) people. 42 relatns. * chicken in gay lingo *
Bean queen (also ta queen or Salsa queen), gay man attracted to Hispanic men[61][70].
Brownie queen, obsolete slang for gay man terted anal sex (ed by men who disliked anal sex)[71]. Chicken queen, olr gay man terted younger or younger appearg men[72]. Curry queen, gay man attracted to Asian-Indian gay men[37].
CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
gay chicken - Or: <a href="chicken">chicken</a> , a young <a href="gay">gay</a> male, ually his teens or early twenti, pecially one unfaiar wh <a href="homosexualy">homosexualy</a>. * chicken in gay lingo *
Dge queen, gay man attracted to black gay men (offensive e of "dge" meang black)[73]. Drag queen, gay man to cross-drsg for performance[73]. Grey queen, a gay person who works for the fancial servic dtry (this term origat om the fact that the 1950s, people who worked this profsn often wore grey flannel sus).
Gym queen, gay man given to athletic velopment[75]. Pissy queen, gay man perceived as fsy[68].
GAY CHICKEN
Potato queen, gay Asian man attracted maly to whe men. Rice queen, gay man attracted maly to East Asian men.
St queen, gay man to prophilia[77].
Twk, a young or young-lookg gay man, wh ltle body hair and a slenr build[81]. Molly and tommy: In 18th century England, the term molly was ed for male homosexuals, implyg effemacy; Tommy, a slang term for a homosexual woman e by 1781, may have been ed by analogy wh molly.
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↑ 2008, Pl Ryan Brewer, Value war: public opn and the polics of gay rights, page 60.