Re: Fruitcakes was Re: Kentum/satem

Karapcik, Mike escreva:
>  Back in the 70's and early 80's, most gay
>men could quote at least a dozen lines from the movie.
Still can. My favourite is:

Dorothy: "How can anyone be so mean?"
Wicked Witch of the West: "Lots and lots of practice!"

>         Also, the woman who played Dorothy, Judy Garland, was a bit of a gay
>icon, and had a great many gay friends and employees/retainers. (She gained
>a bit of notoriety for this.)
>
>         So, "a friend of Dorothy" became an oblique reference to a gay man.
Probably the only one we came up with by ourselves for ourselves. Most of
the others, like queer, poof, fag (I *hate* that one), fruit, fairy and
even gay itself, were originally insults and are still used as such.

But then again we have derogatory terms for heterosexuals ("breeder" being
a very common one in the UK).

Dan

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