The secret queer language you don't know you're speaking.

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reply 28

December 10, 2022 3:30 AM

Does "Polari" roughly translate to "exhausting"?

by Anonymous

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December 9, 2022 5:39 PM

I think Dodge used to make 'em.

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December 9, 2022 5:48 PM

Polari is part of gay history and most gay people I know in real life are familiar with it. Of course supposed "gays" on DL have never heard of it and instantly mock it out of ignorance.

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December 9, 2022 6:11 PM

Not sure why they are using s picture of a Black man when talking about Polari, a slang invented by gay white Englishmen.

Actually, I DO know why, but still…

by Anonymous

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December 9, 2022 6:15 PM

Gay history. But of course they have to show a man wearing women's clothing and make-up.

That's how we're represented today. Just as swishy "fairies" represented gay men decades ago.

Ah progress!

by Anonymous

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December 9, 2022 6:18 PM

Ugh I despise when they use the term “queer” to describe gay and lesbian history. It just makes the purple hairs feel like it was something they were a part of or had a hand in.

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December 9, 2022 6:25 PM

I always thought trade meant for sale not “attractive”.

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December 9, 2022 6:27 PM

I remember those commercials in the early 70s, didn’t it have something to do with fine Corinthian leather?

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December 9, 2022 6:42 PM

How do you say, “stop using queer” in Polari?

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December 9, 2022 6:50 PM

Every time we vardas a dolly basket, we go meshigener for cottaging!

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reply 12

December 9, 2022 7:04 PM

More Polari. A better link.

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December 9, 2022 8:20 PM

The examples shown above are all white cis gay men, but OP's article picture would have us believe a very different group were responsible for this cultural trend.

by Anonymous

reply 16

December 9, 2022 8:23 PM

No! It's VOLARE!

Stop appropriating! MINE!

by Anonymous

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December 9, 2022 8:44 PM

[quote] The examples shown above are all white cis gay men, but OP's article picture would have us believe a very different group were responsible for this cultural trend.

Hmm, it's almost like this same sequence of events has happened before....hmmm......

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December 9, 2022 8:45 PM

Fascinating - I learned about this in the 90s, I think, after Boy George talked about it in his book.

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December 9, 2022 8:46 PM

British fag slang from 50+ years ago. No one in that country speaks it anymore, and no one on this side of the Atlantic ever did.

But the boys at the Gayish Podcast used to have a Polari word of the week.

by Anonymous

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December 9, 2022 8:46 PM

Read the article.

"Commonly used words like ‘troll’ (meaning someone unpleasant or unattractive) were popularised by Polari, meanwhile ‘trade’ a word used on the reality show ‘Rupaul's Drag Race’ denotes someone attractive. ‘Drag’ itself and the yiddish word ‘zhooshed’ also strike the chime of recognition for most people."

Because they mention RuPaul's drag race, they put a black queen in the centre photo.

Pathetic.

by Anonymous

reply 23

December 9, 2022 8:48 PM

Why is cultural appropriation always so one-sided now?

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reply 24

December 9, 2022 9:21 PM

[quote]Why is cultural appropriation always so one-sided now?

It follows the gender appropriation that we are all forced to like and champion!

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reply 25

December 9, 2022 9:32 PM

R22 thinks that being old qualifies her as the Expert of Everything.

Cackling Alice.

by Anonymous

reply 26

December 9, 2022 9:38 PM

The Boba Album of Julian and Sandy

Old school gay. Really, really old school. Funny, too.

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reply 27

December 9, 2022 11:05 PM

It was my favorite Bobby Rydell song.

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December 10, 2022 3:30 AM