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		petegrif on Sept 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 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 [–]

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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