Creating a queer concordance
Tell me you are gay, about the women you slept with, about that dress you tried on that affirmed your identity, about all the queer things you love about yourself. In your language, patois, dialect, accent, and local quirks. Be me duck, down a brew with a sarnie as we chat, tell me all the queer words that make you who you are. No homo, all the homo, all the glitterball dancing the night away messiness of Canal Street and the Scene. In your own unique way tell me all the things, all those sweet queer things.
Linguistics is a passion of mine, finding words that roll of the tip of my tongue, passe yet a quintessence of a moment in time. In many respects queer identities have forged, reforged, mixed and remixed identities to better suit their own societies in ways the straights have long overlooked, all the while moving on and code switching as we move between our personal networks. To be queer is to need a dictionary, thesaurus, and cultural map simply just to walk into the pub. Drag Race this, Diva that, TikTok superstar secret squee words all the rage then forgotten. What we need is a concordance, a cultural atlas that helps us all navigate our own worlds, and in turn helps the cisnormative at large better get to grips with our textures and nuances.
Laserpig raised the point about femmeboys in the most offhand way, while F1NN sits merrily in the corner owning Femmeboy…
