Swish (slang)
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title:
Swish (slang)
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Swish is a US English slang term for effeminate behavior and interests (camp), emphasized and sanctioned in gay male communities prior to the Stonewall riots. This behaviour is also described as being nelly in British English, and both terms are often considered to be derogatory. Being swish stereotypically includes a "sashaying" walk, and the use of falsetto voices, feminine pronouns, and superlatives. According to Martin Levine and Michael Kimmel in Gay Macho: The Life and Death of the Homosex
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Slang
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(slang)
date created:
2004-08-13T21:43:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:12:57Z
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