Which slang do gay people think they invented but they didnt?

[Distantconstellation]

I often see here many gays thinking the slang they use came from the gay community but ummm no it didn't. Can u educate us about some words/sayings that didn't?

 

It's specially the foreign girls here who come from another country and are only exposed to US culture thru media, internet, etc

[ToMmY]

Probably all of them but who cares? Nobody's getting a prize.

[shookspeare]

literally all of them

[Material Girl]

"tea/shade/read/etc" all came from ballroom, specifically black gay and trans people

 

 

[Dystopian]

47 minutes ago, Distantconstellation said:

I often see here many gays thinking the slang they use came from the gay community but ummm no it didn't.

most of it came from black trans and gay people in the ballroom scene, so yes it did come from part of the gay community.

 

did you mean white gays? 

[Distantconstellation]

20 minutes ago, Dystopian said:

most of it came from black trans and gay people in the ballroom scene, so yes it did come from part of the gay community.

 

did you mean white gays? 

Didn't most of it come from Black women?

[GentleEarthquake]

English-speaking gays take most of their stuff from black women

[Dr. Alexander]

56 minutes ago, Material Girl said:

"tea/shade/read/etc" all came from ballroom, specifically black gay and trans people

 

 

Ironically, they got it from listening to their mothers, aunties, grandmas, and cousins talk and gossip.

 

Black women were the blueprint. 

[Helios]

BUSSY. It was invented African American Women!! 

[Distantconstellation]

49 minutes ago, Dr. Alexander said:

Ironically, they got it from listening to their mothers, aunties, grandmas, and cousins talk and gossip.

 

Black women were the blueprint. 

So it all came from Black Women then not trans, gays are others. It's what I was thinking. Black women don't get credit. 

[PoisonCandy]

1 hour ago, Distantconstellation said:

Didn't most of it come from Black women?

Yeah. Started with black women, then the gays, and now you have white teenage girls diluting it even further by replacing every word in their vocabulary with "slay" 

[yonsé]

1 hour ago, Distantconstellation said:

Didn't most of it come from Black women?

Black trans women are not excluded from that.

[yonsé]

Intersectionality be beating y’all asses

[HeWolf]

  

3 hours ago, Distantconstellation said:

Which slang do gay people think they invented but they didnt?

 

 

If we think we invented them, then how would we know we didn't?

 

Edited March 5, 2023 by HeWolf

[Sheep]

Unless any of you are old enough to have been around pre-ballroom or have a first hand account from Crystal LaBeija about how her black auntie invented the word hunty I’m going to need y’all to stop erasing our history. 

 

This thread is giving Cardi B trademarking okurrr 

[LittleStarmen]

"Mother" came from Jenniffer Lawrence Movie "Mother"

[elevate]

Anyone know where cxnty came from? I really like the reversal here, and that word coming to mean sexy, fierce, etc.

 

Anyway, from what I can tell re the history of these slang words, a lot seems to have come from Black women and Black trans women in particular. That said, I don't think the gaysTM (which includes POC folk, people seem to forget) were completely out of the picture as the current social media rhetoric would have you believe.

[Mr.Link]

All of them. Black cis women invented gay lingo and ballroom culture adapted it until decades later it hit the mainstream, now even straight people use it thinking they’re funny. 

[Tropez]

On 3/4/2023 at 7:54 PM, yonsé said:

Black trans women are not excluded from that.

A lot of black trans women were influenced by the black cis women in their lives. So a lot of the terms and slang came by or were influenced by them. Not everything of course.