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language, queer slang, queer expressions, gay slang, homophobic slurs, speech, made-up words

Queer Language: Borrowed Grammar, Made-Up Words, and Chosen Family

By Angelo Franco-DeWitt
Sometimes it sounds like inside jokes and borrowed vowels, like made-up grammar and pet names that mean everything and one thing at the same time. Sometimes it sounds like chosen family. Sometimes it sounds like a language no one else would understand unless they already belong.