LGBTQ History
You're Dead to Me
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Yen, Funny, Funny Men
Palari is a mixture of cockney rhyming slang and theatre language. It was used by gay men to express interest in another man. There are words like scarper to flea a, cottaging that we don't realise come from there. Kenneth williamson spoke palariengire on the radio - thinking of 'round the horn' Rym: Was it tolerated bause they were funny or did people have no idea?
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