Polari has been the secret language of gay men and women through
the twentieth century. But more than a language, Polari is an
attitude. From the prisons and music halls of Edwardian England to
Kenneth Williams, American Gls in London and the Sisters of
Perpetual Indulgence, Polari has been used to laugh, bitch, gossip
and cruise. Like all slang, Polari users coined an ever-changing
vocabulary. Derived from words used by criminals, circus artists,
beggars and prostitutes, it also employed Italian, Yiddish, French,
rhyming slang and backslang. Polari speakers camped up a storm,
from West End chorus boys and office workers to East End
sea-queens. Since gay liberation, lesbian and gay slang has become
less a language of concealment than a language of specialization,
though the tradition of camp remains. A carefully researched and
entertaining read, Fantabulosa presents a lexicon of Polari and a
more general dictionary of lesbian and gay slang. If you don't yet
know what vada the bona cartes on the ommee ajax, parkering ninty,
a Mexican nightmare or a nellyectomy mean, then this is the book
for you.
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