An troductn to Polari, the old Brish gay slang, cludg a word list.
Contents:
- GAY BRA GLOSSARY
- CATEGORY:ENGLISH GAY SLANG
- THIS SECRET LANGUAGE ALLOWED GAY MEN TO COMMUNITE WHEN HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL
- POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
GAY BRA GLOSSARY
Gay Bra Glossary: see an A-Z glossary of words and phras relatg to gay life Bra om Ace to Wolfenn Report. * gay slang uk *
The glossary clus Acts of Parliament, gay villag Bra, history, people, and current and archaic gay slang.
CATEGORY:ENGLISH GAY SLANG
Polari is a secret language, or cryptolect, that served to help gay men England munite, and remas surprisgly fluential today. * gay slang uk *
Albany Tst - a registered chary set up 1958 to plement the Homosexual Law Reform Society (see below). Canal Street - near Picdilly Statn and Manchter Universy, Canal Street is the foc of the gay muny Manchter.
THIS SECRET LANGUAGE ALLOWED GAY MEN TO COMMUNITE WHEN HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL
* gay slang uk *
The street ns parallel to the Rochdale Canal and me to s own as an tablished gay district the 1990's wh the onset of greater tolerance for gay life and bs, pecially Manchter. Before the 1990's, gay people and gay meetg plac the area were often subject to police harassment.
Closeted - ( the closet) metaphor for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, LGBTQ+ people who have not disclosed their sexual orientatn. Gay - a person whose feels endurg sexual and emotnal attractn to people of the same genr.
POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
Homosexual - term first ed 19th century Germany and taken up the UK by Havelock Ellis the early 20th century to scribe same sex attractn. Homosexual Law Reform Society - (HLRS) an anisatn that mpaigned the UK for chang the laws that crimalised homosexual relatns between men.