The Queens' English
The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases
(Sprache: Englisch)
A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language--an intersectional, inclusive, playfully illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms and fabulous phrases created by and for queer culture.
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A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language--an intersectional, inclusive, playfully illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms and fabulous phrases created by and for queer culture.Do you know where "yaaaas queen!" comes from? Do you know the difference between a bear and a wolf? Do you know what all the letters in LGBTQIA+ stand for?
The Queens' English is a comprehensive guide to modern gay slang, queer theory terms, and playful colloquialisms that define and celebrate LGBTQIA+ culture. This modern dictionary provides an in-depth look at queer language, from terms influenced by celebrated lesbian poet Sappho and from New York's underground queer ball culture in the 1980s to today's celebration of RuPaul's Drag Race.
The glossary of terms is supported by full-color illustrations and photography throughout, as well as real-life usage examples for those who don't quite know how to use "kiki," "polysexual," or "transmasculine" in a sentence. A series of educational lessons highlight key people and events that shaped queer language; readers will learn the linguistic importance of pronouns, gender identity, Stonewall, the Harlem Renaissance, and more.
For every queen in your life--the men, women, gender non-conforming femmes, butches, daddies, and zaddies--The Queens' English is at once an education and a celebration of queer history, identity, and the limitless imagination of the LGBTQIA+ community.
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IntroductionThe idea to write The Queens English was spawned when I landed my first job as a professional performing artist at a Philadelphia-based dance company in 2006. We traveled often for shows, and bus conversation our ultimate entertainment pastime was typically led by a few charismatic MVPs at the back of our tour bus. Jokes and witty remarks were always being tossed around, and the better the joke, the louder the laughs, the more fun everyone had. The back-of-the-bus group had the 411 on all the good gossip, and the rest of us were always glued to their conversations. But sometimes their jokes sounded like a code to me, filled with terms I could not decipher.
One day I called to the back of the tour bus and asked, What does snatched mean? You are always calling people snatched like it s a compliment. What is it?
With a bit of shade, a company member said, Something you need to be when you are in this company, snatched for the gawds! Laughter erupted, but I was still confused.
Another company member, who was willing to break it down, said, Let me give you the T. We are gay, honey, and we have our own language that only we get. Other people in the company eventually get it, too, because it s fierce backboots. That s why you are here looking through the window trying to come inside our world. So, here s a little breakdown . . . five, six, seven, eight! Snatched means that the body is together! You are lovely, small, lean, shapely, sexy, you are SNATCHED! And to be in this company, our boss wants us to be snatched for the gawds! So, that means you have to be extra lean, extra sexy, and extra lovely! You are eating air and drinking hope with a wheatgrass shot for dessert. The whole bus exploded with laughter. And so it began.
I wanted to kiki all the time! I was fascinated with the language I was learning from gay culture. As an eager newbie (cough, cough, I mean eager gaybie), I started a running list of terms and
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expressions my friends taught me, and bus conversations soon revolved around the entertainment of me trying to pair academic definitions with words like beat, fierce, living, ovah, and werk. Jokingly, I told a friend that this was a fully developed language and there should be a dictionary for these words.
When you write it, he said, call it The Queens English. It s a language for all the queens.
Over the years, I added more terms as I performed all over the country. Colleagues actors, artists, dancers, and performers who identified as LGBTQIA+ shared their favorite lingo with me and introduced me to friends so we could collect more. I even learned terms from friendly strangers in gayborhoods, at LGBT centers, and during Pride events. The list of terms eventually became a glossary that represented a diverse group of gay and queer people, lifestyles, and communities.
My research eventually led me to explore the complexities of my own sexual identity. Learning new words like demi, bi, and flexible gave me labels that identified the fluidity of my attraction to others. Throughout my life, I ve identified as heteroflexible, bi-curious, and at a time, struggled with being a semi-closeted bisexual; I ve explored polyamory, and now I m a proud and openly biromantic, demisexual bisexual. These words helped articulate my developing sexual expression as I grew to understand myself. It was the support of my community family, friends, dating partners, the theater, dance and the writing of The Queens English that gave me the courage to express my truth and become a
When you write it, he said, call it The Queens English. It s a language for all the queens.
Over the years, I added more terms as I performed all over the country. Colleagues actors, artists, dancers, and performers who identified as LGBTQIA+ shared their favorite lingo with me and introduced me to friends so we could collect more. I even learned terms from friendly strangers in gayborhoods, at LGBT centers, and during Pride events. The list of terms eventually became a glossary that represented a diverse group of gay and queer people, lifestyles, and communities.
My research eventually led me to explore the complexities of my own sexual identity. Learning new words like demi, bi, and flexible gave me labels that identified the fluidity of my attraction to others. Throughout my life, I ve identified as heteroflexible, bi-curious, and at a time, struggled with being a semi-closeted bisexual; I ve explored polyamory, and now I m a proud and openly biromantic, demisexual bisexual. These words helped articulate my developing sexual expression as I grew to understand myself. It was the support of my community family, friends, dating partners, the theater, dance and the writing of The Queens English that gave me the courage to express my truth and become a
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Autoren-Porträt von Chloe O. Davis
Chloe O. Davis
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- Autor: Chloe O. Davis
- 2021, International, 336 Seiten, Maße: 16,2 x 21,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0593135008
- ISBN-13: 9780593135006
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.01.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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Chloe Davis s delightfully informative, succinct, helpful and playful dictionary of more than 800 LGBTQIA+ words and fabulous phrases is truly sickening (defined within as astonishingly impressive ). . . . The Queens English is as much a glossary as it is a dazzling art book, boasting colorful and engaging art and illustrations on every page. ShelfAwareness
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