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SUMMARY:Polari - a Very Queer Code - Professor Paul Baker\, University of 
 Lancaster
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Polari was a form of language\, developing across the 19th and
  20th centuries among a queer subculture that newspapers of the time refer
 red to as the "twilight world of the homosexual". It acted as a secret cod
 e\, allowing speakers to converse in public spaces\, to identify one anoth
 er and to form identities. \n\nIn the 1960s Polari became famous when it w
 as used in a popular BBC radio comedy series called Round the Horne but by
  the 1980s it had all but vanished. \n\nPaul Baker has researched Polari f
 or the last 30 years and he tells the fascinating and hilarious story of i
 ts rise\, fall and rediscovery\, charting its fortunes alongside tumultuou
 s changes in British LGBTQ+ representation and visibility.\n \n \n\nPaul B
 aker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University. He has writ
 ten 25 books which focus on the relationship between language\, society\, 
 identity and media. He is editor of the journal Corpora\, a Fellow of the 
 Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. \n 
LOCATION:Lady Mitchell Hall\, Sidgwick Avenue
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