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Burton, Peter
"The gentle art of confounding naffs: Some notes on
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Courouve, Claude
Vocabulaire de l'homosexualite masculine.
Paris: Payot, 1985.
Dynes, Wayne
Homolexus: A Historical and Cultural Lexicon of
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Grahn, Judy
Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay
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Leap, William W.
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University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Livia, Anna and Hall, Kira
Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender and
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Petropoulos, Elias
Kaliard : An Etymological Dictionary of Greek
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Rodgers, Bruce
The Queens' Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon. London: Blond and Briggs,
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