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Before “Yas Queen,” There Was “Bona”: The Untold Story of Polari
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Before “Yas Queen,” There Was “Bona”: The Untold Story of Polari
Credit: Unsplash LGBTQIA+ culture has always borrowed and reshaped language from other sources. In 19th-century London, seafarers, theater performers, and street traders created Polari by blending Italian, Romani, rhyming slang, and thieves’ banter into a covert queer code. Gay men leaned hard on this secret vocabulary to mask conversations from prying eyes and undercover bobbies, giving them a private runway for gossip, flirtation, and camp hum…
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