Fabulosa! - The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language Book book graphic novel it offers hope

it offers hope

"This is a story of invitation and awakening

to hilarious real-life awkward trans stories

ISBN: 9781785924323

Fabulosa! - The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language Book book graphic novel it offers hope'Richly evocative and entertaining.' Guardian 'An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari bona!' Attitude Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colourful roots are varied from Cant to Lingua Franca and dancers' slang and in the mid1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters Julian and