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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: Signs for "Gay"
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 08:57:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 08:57:00 1985
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> 
> GAY-QUEER: G handshape on tip of chin.  The point of contact is
> (unusually) both index and thumb.  This makes it look different
> from SOUR or MISS ("to miss someone").  The gloss is Woodwards,
> and he reports it as derogatory, and some of you had mentioned
> it as such on the East Coast.  I don't think it is among the gay
> community in SF.
> 

	I asked a friend who works at Gallaudet, the college for the
deaf in Washington, about signs for "gay" and he showed me something
similar to the above. It's a "g" sign on the tip of the chin that (he
says - I wouldn't know) also looks like a "q" (for queer) and a limp
wrist. I gather that it is not derogatory. He also says that a noticable
number of the student population there is gay or lesbian.

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jcpatilla