Paul Baker: Fabulosa!

The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language. UK 2020, 320 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 19.95
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Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the 20th century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colorful roots are varied -from Cant to Lingua Franca to dancers' slang - and in the mid-1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters ... Weiterlesen