10 Gay Slang Terms and What They Mean

Contents:

• GAY KE
• GAY SLANG 101
• GAY SANDWICH
• 12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!

GAY KE

But Bra 60 years ago, to the mostly (but not entirely) gay male speakers of a dialect lled Polari, this phrase had a different, dified, licly lurid meang: Dish have rims, if you know what I mean.

) But also u, meang a gay man; chicken (a young gay man); seafood (a sailor); fish (a woman, not kdly); tart (for a prostute); and the aforementned “dish” (for several thgs, butts chief among them).

GAY SLANG 101

Two qutns e to the fore about all the Polari food words: Obscurg talk about gay sex a society that was hostile to mak a lot of sense, but why was necsary to have special terms for food and drk, which are universal and mundane?

That there is a herent narrative about Polari available for anyone to accs and a dictnary that now allows to be ed is largely to the cred of Pl Baker, a profsor the partment of lguistics and English language at Lanster Universy, whose doctoral this on Polari rulted two amic volum on published 2002, Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men and Fantabulosa: A Dictnary of Polari and Gay Slang. The Story of Polari, Bra’s Secret Gay Language. The entire joke is the double meang: Someone who knows Polari will unrstand this is about gay sex, while theoretilly the entire thg will sn as if ’s about food.

GAY SANDWICH

One was that a popular 1960s BBC Rad show lled Round the Horne had clud two implied gay characters, Julian and Sandy, whose dialogue regularly rporated Polari terms, th mastreamg a ltle, and dullg s utily.

Another is that 1967, homosexualy was partially legalized by Parliament, which at least theoretilly permted gay sex between nsentg adults of 21 and up, makg ls ccial to talk about . As the 1970s saw the blossomg of the LGBTQ rights movement, the predomant style and affect of gay men began to shift om prumptns of feyns and mp to a grtier, more explicly masc prentatn; Polari, wh s roundabout yns, was an elegant f.

12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!

Co-founr and former edorial director Las Volger, thor of the recent okbook Snacks for Dner, says Jarry was origally set to be lled Goodie, “as , gay foodie, ” which didn’t pan out. Among gay men and among queer circl, jt mak you feel more nnected to this broar history. In an email, Baker said that “sex is often referred to through food or eatg metaphors anyway, not jt gay slang, ” givg the exampl of “terms like cheeke and cmpet” — a U.

) But, as Baker said, as Polari beme more obscure, new metaphors replaced : In Polari, he said, “A young gay man was referred to as a chicken, although this age died out the early 1990s and has sce been replaced by an Amerinism, twk — which is also a food metaphor. But even wh Baker’s work and reclamatns like Hoi Polloi and Jarry spurrg ntemporary tert Polari, asi om the loan words ’s given to English (“naff” — which is mon Brish slang for somethg lame and vulgar — meant a straight guy Polari, as Waddgton pots out, rived om “not available for fuckg”; his book Gay Men Don’t Get Fat, Doonan lls the most important word Polari, and “que possibly the history of mankd”), is largely a historgraphil tert. In Fabulosa, Baker wr that, “As a ‘ad language, ’ Polari is to gay men what Lat is to Catholics.

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