Variations Aunty, Auntie, Aunt fancy, Aunt Mame, Aunt Mathilda. It can also be used to call a lesbian who is a mentor or protective of a homosexual man. Some suggest that Aunt(ie) was initially slang of madam, or old prostitute who ran a brothel, producing, as in many cases, a semantic transition from prostitute to homosexual man. Used to call middle-aged or elderly gay men. During the making of this dictionary, we have met with the revealing, extensive and excellent work of William Percy, professor at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, that is collected in the magnificent and extensive Encyclopedia of homosexuality, not quoted as a source but rather as an approach. The words and expressions of our English Gay Dictionary have been obtained from many different sources, but unlike many of these sources, which are copies from one another, each of the items has been analyzed, investigated, contrasted and expanded within the possibilities. To which we have considered interesting add two more groups:ĥ) The jargon of the gay community, which often is extremely brutal and other rather funny.Ħ) The jargon of male prisons, that somehow shows the sexual plasticity of men. The patriarchal feminization, in addition to turning homosexual men into women, by a puerile but tenacious psycho-biological determinism, transfers the worst stereotyped characteristics of women to gay men for the simple fact of being. Percy we can relate the terms and expressions of our English Gay Dictionary in 4 groups:ģ) For effeminate men. The majority of the terms are originally created by straight people, so somehow expressed contempt and hostility that fear of homosexual behavior produced and continues producing, although in many cases the passage of time has been erased all that negativity and ended up being incorporated into normal speech and even into LGBT vocabulary.įollowing the classification of Professor William A. There are also current expressions which, with time, we will expand.
Most of the words are from the 19th and 20th centuries, but some date back to the 17th century, so you can find words that are no longer used, but all are useful to unravel how humanity has been linked to the homosexual behavior. The national varieties of English, as well as Polari slang or Cockney rhyming slang, create specific words from particular regions and others that travel from one place to another while retaining its meaning or exchanging it for another similar or radically different. But first some information about the language and this dictionary.Įnglish is an Indo-European language spoken by over 500 million people and is official in more than 80 countries and territories.
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