Why do some gays wet their pants about a secret language that only pretentious queens speak and is fundamentally a symbol of gay oppression? Be glad that we don't have talk in code any more and consign this to history where it belongs.
It's only a 'symbol of oppression' is you believe the fiction that its primary function was to allow gay men to talk in code when in earshot of straight people...
Would it be naff to say bona?
ReplyDeleteWhy do some gays wet their pants about a secret language that only pretentious queens speak and is fundamentally a symbol of gay oppression? Be glad that we don't have talk in code any more and consign this to history where it belongs.
ReplyDeleteIt's only a 'symbol of oppression' is you believe the fiction that its primary function was to allow gay men to talk in code when in earshot of straight people...
DeleteThe film is excellent and very touching. I remember polari well from my teens... It certainly wasn't a language of 'pretentious queens' in the day...
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