Thought of not in days but in a heartbeat. Do you know who Menchu Menchaca is? Or Carmen Patena? Do you know where Dakota Harrison is? It takes talent I may say to coin new words that will not only make you laugh but think very hard. Most are just spur of the moment word inventions they decided could be good enough to fill a gap in conversation like chuva and chenes or maybe to define an indescribable event or happening such as ek-ek.īut if you REALLY think about it, it takes intelligence, wit, creativity and a vast knowledge of important and trivial things alike to be able to come up with such terms. Others are just twisted to fit a new meaning like Chaka Khan to mean ugly. They just add something to the Filipino root word like “Gu”-Tom Jones to mean hungry. If you think about it, gay lingo is nothing but a hilarious play of words. “Hoy, i-ready na ang pang-Janno Gibbs sa press ha” “Josko, ang CR hindi na-flush ha ma-Panjee Gonzales.” With the right attitude and perseverance, I was gay speaking my way to work in just a few months. Gay words and terms are being born every minute and thrown from every corner of the room that you have to catch up quickly or forever be lost in the labyrinth. In that world, you have to be sharp, witty and fast-thinking. So, I did my part and learned the lessons. To be “in”, one with the family, with the group, you have to speak like one of them. I was then working in a gay dominated business - entertainment what else - but everyone else seemed to be speaking in this queer tongue straight men included.
The first time I heard a gay lingo infused conversation back in 1996, I was confused. It has become some kind of a secret guilty pleasure. No one it seems is excluded from the allure of this lingo that is funny and irreverent at the same time. Well, at least those who will shamelessly and unabashedly admit to it.
#Gay lingo words code#
From its grassroots beginnings in obscure parlors around the city it has infiltrated the tri-media and is now being spoken or understood or both by every Juan, Juana, Nene and Boy in the Philippines.Īlmost everyone can now speak this once hard to break “gay code of communication”. Once the not-so-secret language of homosexuals gay lingo is no longer exclusive to gays much to our divas dismay. The propagation of this form of communication is unstoppable. Gay B : “ Ayyyy, Wishing, Pagoda Cold Wave Lotion ako.”Įveryone who got what they were saying, raise your hands! Gay A : “Hoy, Bakla, me That’s Entertainment ka ba?”
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