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<p>Erotic slang words from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and other English-speaking nations number well into the tens of thousands. But the history of terms used to describe the sexual activities of gays and lesbians have opposing sources: one, the discreet networks of gay men and lesbians who sought to come up with a new terminology for the pleasures of their secret lives; and the other, those who found gay sexuality repellent, and created phrases that denigrated and insulted its proponents. The result? A coded language, for better or worse, that celebrates sexuality in all its queerness.</p> <p>A. D. Peterkin shows how euphemism, camp humor, rhyme, acronym, and secret code have all been recruited imaginatively by gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals to name what was thought to be unnamable.</p> <p><b>A. D. Peterkin</b> is a Toronto psychiatrist and journalist.</p>

Who reads Outbursts! : A Gay and Lesbian Erotic Thesaurus?

Author

Allan D. Peterkin

Publisher

Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781551521510

Category

reference

Subjects

Humor, Education, Gender Studies

Rating

3.25 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13