In an age of restriction and secrecy where LGBTQ+ people lived in fear, the community devised a clever system that, for the sake of this piece, I have deemed the Lavender Line. It wasn’t a physical ...

If you've ever talked about drag, camp, butches, and/or trade, you know at least some words from Polari, a secret gay language adopted by gay men in the United Kingdom between the 1920s and the 1960s.