The Russian Gay

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

I was wondering (etymologically?) whether or not the Russian slang for gay comes from голубой the color or голубь the pigeon. I happened to find голубь from a 1960 edition of an Akhmanova dictionary my French teacher gave me. Would it be possible? In other languages, gays are also referred to as birds. Just a thought.

Comments

[24karrot.livejournal.com]

pato = spanish for duck/gay...and ducks are birds...heh

I hope you x-posted this someplace else

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Where to, exactly?

[friendlic.livejournal.com]

can you tell me what are the else translations of the "gay" to spanish? and what words are used most often?

[schwarzer-tod.livejournal.com]

maricon (adj.) is used often, and I guess how common it is depends where in the world you're calling someone gay. http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Spanish.html is a good reference site; it gives regional information for each word.

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm Colombian raised with "maricon" flying around whenever my father would describe, well, queers. I never like the word though, it seems extremely vulgar to me.