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Contents:
- WAS “DRAMA QUEEN” A GAY SLANG EXPRSN ORIGALLY?
- 12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
- THE FETS AND JABS OF POLARI, BRA’S GAY SLANG
WAS “DRAMA QUEEN” A GAY SLANG EXPRSN ORIGALLY?
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Lguists believe that’s how gay slang started, too.
12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
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THE FETS AND JABS OF POLARI, BRA’S GAY SLANG
Gay Slang Terms From The Mid-century To The 70s. Homosexualy remaed illegal across the Uned Stat the mid-twentieth century – that is, until Illois beme the first state to crimalize same-sex relatns 1962.
In an act of ristance, unrground gay and lbian bars thrived the 50s and 60s. In the 60s and 70s, gay men even had a “hanky ” – a system that volved wearg bandanas wh lors that signified whether you were a top, bottom, to BDSM, etc.
One of the most well-known phras to e out of this time is “iend of Dorothy”, which is for a gay man. Judy Garland, who played Dorothy the film, was also a queer in who patronized gay bars and often surround herself wh queer iends. In the 60s, Lesch was the print of a gay rights anizatn lled the Mattache Society and me up wh the “Sip-In” – a monstratn held at New York Cy bars that banned service to out gay people.