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petegrif
on Sept 14, 2017
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Polari: the dead language of gay British men
Kenneth Williams used it when a popular comic and nobody straight had the first idea of the gay subtext.
kagamine
on Sept 15, 2017
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Of course they knew, Britain has a long history of camp in the theater. They maybe didn't know the words' meaning but they knew the gay subtext and overtones.
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