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A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year “Richly evocative and entertaining.”— Guardian “An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari bona!”— Attitude “Exuberant, richly detailed. . . . A delightful read.”— Tatler Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colorful roots are varied—from Cant to Lingua Franca to dancers’ slang—and in the mid-1960s