Conversely, words such as ' banjee', while well-established in a subset of gay society, have never made the transition to popular use. In the Philippines, many LGBT people speak with Swardspeak, or 'gay lingo', which is a more extensive use of slang as a form of dialect or way of speaking.Ĭonversations between gay men have been found to use more slang and fewer commonly known terms about sexual behavior than conversations between straight men.

Baths – bathhouses frequented by gay men for sexual encounters (US).baby gay – a young or recently out gay person (US).100-footer – an obviously gay or lesbian person (as if visible from 100 feet away) ( US).Other argots are spoken in southern Africa ( Gayle language and IsiNgqumo) and Indonesia ( Bahasa Binan).