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Paul Baker: Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language [2020] paperback Condition:Very Good it was saidPolari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result in criminal prosecution or worse Polari offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage, a way of expressing humour, and a means of identification and of establishing a community. Its roots are colourful and varied from Cant to Lingua Franca to prostitutes' slang and in the mid 1960s it was thrust into the
