It’s brilliant that opposite this plaque , honouring the bold Kenneth Williams is one of London’s best LGBQT+ bookshops. Sadly it isn’t called Bona Books… neither is the salon more appropriately titled Riah and Beauty.

#polari

@stevencudahy

#CreativeWriting #WritingChallenge #MastoPrompt #Challenge #Poem #Poetry
#Prompt: #Lavender

They Call Me Lavender

They call me lavender,
Similar to the flower.
It's who I am, they say.
Word for my rainbow ways,
A dictionary for Polari.
Lavender, they call me.

#lgbtq #polari #sexuality #QueerLanguage #labels

From my 18 year old son Dylan, who is a published author!

not sure if it's a #gnome #polari #znc or #ssl problem but i can't for the life of me connect polari to a self signed cert znc server. 😐

#linux

Once again, we see the weaponisation of progressive words & DAVRO from transphobes.
A self described trans exclusionary campaigner and open supporter of JK Rowling's views on trans people ... is on a list for the Polari Prize, a UK LGBTQ+ book award. Other candidates have withdrawn.

The transphobe is complaining that _he_ is being bullied.... 🙄

https://www.thejournal.ie/over-800-authors-have-taken-issue-with-the-inclusion-of-the-irish-author-longlist-on-the-longlist-for-an-lgbtq-literature-prize-causing-10-people-to-withdraw-from-the-prize-6790394-Aug2025/
#trans #transrights #terf #JohnBoyne #Polari

"This is a parade pause," cried he, "which does one good; it gives such an elegance to misfortune! Another day I will do the same: I will sit in my library, in my nightcap and powdering gown, and give as much trouble as I can; -- or, perhaps, I may defer it, till Kitty runs away."

https://romancelandia.club/@herhandsmyhands/115049574633000850

#Polari #PolariPrize

A little bit of #nostalgia for your edification. Some gays out there are old enough to still remember hearing #Polari (West End dialect in Cardiff clubs for me) into the 90s amongst older gays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8yEH8TZUsk

#GayHistory #GayHeritage