%0 Journal Article
%T From Closet Talk to PC Terminology : Gay Speech and the Politics of Visibility
%A Pascale Smorag
%J Transatlantica : Revue d'¨¦tudes Am¨¦ricaines
%D 2008
%I Association fran?aise d'¨¦tudes am¨¦ricaines
%X Depuis l¡¯¨¦poque o¨´ l¡¯homosexualit¨¦ ¨¦tait synonyme de perversion, voire de d¨¦lit, jusqu¡¯aux actuelles gay prides, la communaut¨¦ gay, lesbienne, bisexuelle et transgenre n¡¯a cess¨¦ de d¨¦velopper un langage distinctif, le gayspeak. Transgressant les normes sociales, ce parler, davantage glossaire qu¡¯idiome, permet aujourd¡¯hui ¨¤ la communaut¨¦ LGBT de reconstruire sa propre r¨¦alit¨¦ tout en ouvrant vers de nouvelles perceptions identitaires. Militant tout autant que ludique, ce langage se veut ¨¦galement le d¨¦fenseur d¡¯un certain style de vie, cherchant ¨¤ exprimer, de mani¨¨re la plus visible, politiquement correcte et efficace qui soit, la richesse des comportements et des cultures du monde gay. This paper examines the extraordinary complexity of sexual orientations and subcultures as expressed by ¡°gay speech,¡± an idiom the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community has developed for itself. Since the times when homosexuality was a perversion to today¡¯s vibrant Prides, gayspeak has been used to express the needs of a group which, feeling socially repressed, reinvented and subverted language. Whereas some activists are using it as a means to keep politics in the language, notably by reclaiming all discriminatory terminology, others rely upon this rich lexicon to assert the diversity of their specific lifestyles and subcultures.
%K homosexuality
%K sexual identity
%K gay slang
%K gay and lesbian language
%K militantism
%K homophobia
%K transgenders
%K bisexuals
%K lesbians
%K gays
%K LGBT
%K gender.
%K militantisme
%K identit¨¦ sexuelle
%K argot gay
%K terminologie gaie et lesbienne
%K homophobie
%K transgenres
%K bisexuels
%K lesbiennes
%K homosexualit¨¦
%K identit¨¦ de genre.
%U http://transatlantica.revues.org/3503