Polari is incredible to listen to. It does sound like its own language that somewhat resembles English but you can’t tease anything out.

Here’s a short written entirely in Polari.

The only gripe I have with the article is how it highlights queer culture appropriation without giving any concrete examples.

One common one is “twink” which people now use to mean a vanilla, thin white boy, but it carries a connotation of, um, breedable. Like, do you really want to fuck your friend or?