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We start our gay dictionary, as is only natural, with the word gay. These words and insults define those who use them, and the peoples and periods in which they originated. Please, know them, learn their meaning, but remember that those labels that we are given, those words, do not define us, they do not define you. In our dictionaries we have compiled words belonging to many countries, some offensive, some curious. There is also variety in the type of words, some are insulting expressions, others belong to the gay community itself and others to more specific jargon such as those of prisons or truck drivers. But we always try to talk about the specific singularity of each dictionary and provide links to complementary information. This is due to two reasons, on the one hand, our cultural closeness and on the other the ability and possibility of each culture to study and record their expressions in texts.
Some dictionaries, such as the Spanish, English or Italian ones are more extensive than others such as the Swahili or Sinhalese. What is considered bad today was once normal, and it is about this reductionist process of human sexual potentiality, among other things, that words speak to us. Words express the way we relate to things that exist at a given time.īecause our aim with the gay and lesbian dictionary is not to make a collection of words, but to show that what we understand and think about the manifestations of sexual diversity is nothing more than a social construction, relative to a space-time period, which speaks of a human characteristic that is sexual diversity, the only thing that does not change. Thus, the words become fossil testimonies of a time and a society, as happens with the Polari, Karlianta and Lubunca jargons. However, this task is always exciting, especially when, behind a word, we find a door to an unknown world that tells us the truth about the way things happened in a certain time.
In others, though, the task is almost impossible. In some dictionaries, this turns out to be easier than in others, due to the language and culture itself. On the contrary, they are contrasted and subjected to debate on their use, meaning, and origin. Our dictionaries are not a mere collection of words compiled without rhyme or reason in the network and in printed texts. Marica and Maricón are words that we explain in the Gay Dictionary.
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