Bona drag

Last in The London Chain - sequins

Next in The London Chain - St George's flag

A cunning plan to stop Trafalgar Square filling up with post-match beer-boys - hold this year's LGBT Pride carnival there.

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playa_pixie says:

from the thumbnail they looked a little like American Indian dancers...i see I was wrong. I do admit I like their costumes ;)
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Orhan Tsolak says:

Oh dear, nicely as outragious as Elton John's in-famous white angel dress some years ego :)
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

bootpainter says:

Lovely plumage they've got! No wonder the pigeons were dismayed...
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Gertrud K. says:

Great costumes! Looks like a wonderful event!
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Midori no Saru says:

Showing my age again but I'm somehow reminded of Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

gosh, i hope i don't come across as sounding insensitive for saying this, because i'm just trying to be clever, but...

is this what they mean by 'the stately old homos of England?'

;-)
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Midori no Saru says:

Yes, that was one of Quentin Crisp's better witticisms.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

You speak "polari"?
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

Thanks very much everyone - Midori no Saru, yes, Martin Degville has risen from the grave.

Princess Valium, very much so.

Loopzilla, a few phrases, I'm fascinated by languages generally, and underworld/subcultural slang and cant in particular. Plus I've an interest in it because I'm just generally interested in the history and culture of London's many subcultures over the years, not to mention a big fan of Round the Horne.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari

Round the Horne - featuring Julian and Sandy. There was a bit of a backlash from the community when they brought polari to the public's attention...

These days, we have fake Jamaican words being uttered in London by youth some of whom could not point to the West Indies an map.

That being said, my thesis is that constant language invention is a human only activity. No other entity exhibits that facility. The growth of "txt" as a lanuage is one example. Computer's do not invent language at the race we do, and neither do chimps.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Midori no Saru says:

The growth of "txt" as a lanuage

Txt is a code, though, not a language. The same is true of Polari.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

You mean a language is not an encoding?
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Midori no Saru says:

No - a language has its own internal logic and consistency, and way of constructing knowledge about the world. A code is merely a means of representing information. A language can be encoded, but a code is not a language. Txt and Polari are codes that exist on top of the language of English. If they had their own grammar, they would be a language. Example - CUL8R is just a code for "See you later" ;)

Sorry Simon - my fault - I've turned this picture of drag queens into a seminar! :)
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

Digs out copy of "Language and the Internet" by David Crystal...

Is there a language of the Internet?
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

stupidpony says:

cunning indeed, and subtle, very subtle
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

hedgiecc says:

Having trawled through the many hundreds of Europride pictures, I have to say that this one is just in a class of its own. Absolutely brilliant. The facial expressions, the standing outside the pub, the beer, the England flags, the spectacles, chatting on her mobile phone (? - I assume) - wonderful portraiture and intimacy but also a summation of all that was going on in Trafalgar Square that day.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

Some people do indeed wear spectacles at a spectacle.

But some people appear with no underwear..... "commando".
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

enlahood says:

Nice theme and colors!
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

no name slob says:

Please consider adding this image to the plagiarise or take on loan pool!
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

The Polstar* says:

ha ha
down time!

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Seen next to a fellow photo of Shooter of the day. (?)
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

GeorgieR says:

See there was a photo of a sequin in London!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

See-ming Lee 李思明 SML says:

After taking 1000+ photographs at the Gay Pride New York 2007, I got inspired and started the following Flickr groups:

Life celebrates diversity
HomoMagi
MetaHuman
MetaMen
MetaWomen

I like your photographs--may I suggest that you join and post your photographs on them?

Cheers,
See-ming
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

I can't really get away with sequins.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

Er, what I meant was, neither of these people is me.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

And neither of these two is me!
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

If anyone else out there isn't in this photo, do let us know.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

Do we need a group for this?
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

bootpainter says:

It's your Flickricon that's the reason for the confusion. I still have Peter Cook ( in my brain) as being how you look. He could easily have got away with the sequins.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

For anyone baffled by the above exchange, I had a troll in my photostream for a bit but unfortunately he was so thoroughly useless at it that it took me a few days to work out that he was actually trying to be offensive.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

Bona Troll? Or not bona?
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

That bloke who was asking if it was me in the pic. I think it was some idiot I chucked out of London-alt after he blocked me for asking him not to post photos of the Tower.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

So he didn't speak polari!
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

See-ming Lee 李思明 SML says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Life Celebrates Diversity, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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Seen in my recent comments. (?)
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

immortalfriendstotheworld says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called open to be gay and freedom, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

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