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Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Swish slang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Swish is effeminate behaviour and interests (camp), emphasized and sanctioned (Kleinberg 1978), in pre-Stonewall gay male communities. |
 | | Most post-Stonewall gay men viewed acting swish as internalized homophobia, a concession to straight stereotypes of gay men as failed men (women), however, clone, the masculine, even macho, standard and ideal behaviour that replaced swish adapted many camp elements such as dish. |
 | | Thus while clones view swish as harmfully embodying anti-gay stereotypes, being swish was a way of indicating and performing one's identity, indicating that anti-gay stereotypes were and are derived from gay identities. |
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