From Closet Talk to PC Terminology : Gay Speech and the Politics of Visibility
This paper examines the extraordinary complexity of sexual orientations and subcultures as expressed by “gay speech,” an idiom the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community has developed for itself. Since the times when homosexuality was a perversion to today’s vibrant Prides, gayspeak has b...
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2008-05-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/3503 |