Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site osiris.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!aplcen!osiris!jcp From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Signs for "Gay" Message-ID: <586@osiris.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 08:57:00 EST Article-I.D.: osiris.586 Posted: Fri Nov 1 08:57:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 14:50:28 EST References: <105@emacs.UUCP> <10761@ucbvax.ARPA> <1750@gatech.CSNET> <131@ingres.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital Lines: 18 > > 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. -- jcpatilla