Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang

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Church 'regret' as trainees hold service in gay slang". BBC News. 4 February 2017 . Retrieved 4 February 2017. Punch and Judy. John Payne Collier; with Illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: Thomas Hailes Lacey, 1859. While Round the Horne is attributed for bringing Polari into the mainstream, it could also be recognised for playing a part in its downfall too.

Flood, Rebecca (4 February 2017). "Church expresses 'huge regret' after Cambridge LGBT commemoration service held in gay slang language". The Independent . Retrieved 9 May 2018.It offers a window into this chapter of queer history and is therefore crucial in terms of LGBT+ heritage,” Ted adds. a b c Mayhew, Henry (1968). London Labour and the London Poor, 1861. Vol.3. New York: Dover Press. p.47.

People learned Polari through the mingling of different social groups, from their lovers, and from their queer friends,” he says.The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English Dalzell and Victor (eds.) Routledge, 2006, Vol. II p. 1349. Robb, Simon (4 February 2017). "Priests delivered a service in gay slang and the church weren't happy". Metro . Retrieved 9 May 2018. This was important to not only to destigmatize homosexuality to the average British citizen, but to make queerness endearing. Today, the language has fallen out of use and has been labeled an 'endangered' language by Cambridge University. Polari History While there's no such need for a secret language for the LGBT+ community today, the same could not be said as recently as 55 years ago.