"Things aren’t like they were in the ’80s"

Corey Clark is a senior at Governor Mifflin High School not far from here in Berks County, PA. Of course, when I saw him on the cover of Time last October in an issue about gay teens, I had no idea that he was so close by. This week, our local news reporters at WGAL put together a story that took up a good part of the Wednesday evening news, interviewing Corey and others on a story about gay youth.

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Russian Gay Slang

Back when I was thinking about going for a masters degree in Slavic linguistics I put this essay together as a writing sample. As slang changes very quickly in every culture, I make no claims to current accuracy…

Хочу мальчика, а кругом одни пидарасы…
(I want a boy, but all around there’s nothing but fags…)
– Heard nightly at Chance, a Moscow gay club

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