French slang for gay
French LGBTQ Vocab!
I couldn’t discover an LGBTQ French vocab list so I’m making my own (I honestly probably wasn’t looking difficult enough). So with the help of a limited French friends, some wordreference, some language exposure, and the internet, I made a list.
note: We only included the common ones that everyone is no-doubt aware of.
General Terms
Straight - hétéro
Its an abbreviation of hétérosexuel and as a noun, it can be either masc. or fem. (hétérosexuelle - fem.)
Gender - Genre
Gay - Apparently you can usually say just “gay/gai” but “homo” works too and can be used for women as well. It can be both masc. and fem.
Lesbian - Lesbienne (or homo like above and it’s fem.)
bisexual - bisexuel(le)
Trans/Transgender - Trans, transsexuel or transgenre(this one isn’t as shared but it’s being used a bit more)
Gender Culture - identité de genre
Queer - Queer(it’s the identical word)
intersex - intersexualité/intersexué/intersexuel(le)
Specific Terms/Slang terms
Top - L’actif (masc.)
Bottom - Le passif
Versatile - Le versatile
Drag Queen - Une Drag Queen
A same-sex attracted bear - Un Our
A cub - un ourson
otter - une loutre
Butch
pédé / PD / pédéraste
This was exactly what occurred to me on reading through this thread. A translation is difficult - and also depends on how much we would be trying to respect the language and society of the times. I suspect, although do not grasp, that both "homosexuel" and "pédéraste" would, at the day the quote is from, have evoked the same feeling on French ears as "homosexual" and "pederast" would on English ones whatever that impression might have been - and so I'd probably translate it word for word! (It's also a nice get-out, no?). As a gloss I think very much like Egueule is suggesting and I like an earlier suggestion - "I'm not lgbtq+ (with that defining the whole life-style, indeed - was he married?), I just bugger boys" (but I wouldn't understand by that prepubescent boys, although young, yes).egueule said:
I would say that Camille Saint-Saëns meant that he would not have a love relationship with any man his own age, or older than himself, only with younger males, like many Greeks did in the times of Socrates.
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How do you say "Gay" in your language?
How do you say "Gay & Lesbian" in your language?
I crave to know inoffensive and approachable terms of referring "Homosexual"!!
In English: gay, queer
In German: schwul (only for male homosexuals), lesbisch (female h.), vom anderen Ufer, andersrum, linksgestrickt
omosessuale, gay (m), lesbica (f)
<<omosessuale, gay (m), lesbica (f) >>
which language is this please?
Spanish: parchita, pargo, pato. It depends what country in SouthAmerica you are. These words pertain to slang in Venezuela.
I think that in Spanish we may not have an exact equivalent. Obviously, as Guest above pointed out, there are dozens of words to contact a gay person. But in essence, the word "gay" is a neutral word, it has no negative connotations (when used in the sense "homosexual", not in the sense "lame"). In Spanish, "homosexual" is a tad too technical, and the others are mostly offensive (in the River Plate: maricón, trolo, puto, etc.) a sad fact, which may or may not demonstrate something about our societies. The word "gay&quo