#polari

Tho it's definitely the hardest language I've tried to learn, resource wise, because it's a dead language

But I've found some websites, books and dictionaries and it's such a fun language!

I recommend every queer person look into it!

Boynopolari.com is a great place to start, it gives 10 lessons with basic phrases and stuff

https://kittensyzygy.github.io/polari-dictionary/home.html is the biggest dictionary I can find!

London, 1962. Two strangers strike up a conversation on a park bench about life, sex and the hostile world they find themselves in as gay men. The conversation might be commonplace, but the language isn't, because the two men are speaking in Polari. Polari was a form of slang spoken by some gay men in Britain prior to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967. Used primarily as a coded way for them to discuss their experiences, it quickly fell out of use in the 70s, although several words entered mainstream English and are still used today. (x)

Putting on the Dish (2015) — dir. Brian Fairbairn & Karl Eccleston

As someone who's interested in queer history and who listened to compilation tapes of Julian & Sandy a lot as a student, I'm really looking forward to reading this.

And for those unfamiliar with Julian and Sandy, here's a clip in which they recount their seafaring adventures: