When enrolled in the English Studies Bachelor’s Degree, you first learn that language is part of the cultural identity. It is amazing to see how language works parallel to a community which is continuously changing and how different it is from another’s. Although there are several studies about Native, Afro-American, Asian or even Latino culture and a growing number related to the Queers’, there are not many describing their language. Black English Vernacular or Spanglish are some of the subject matters in Sociolinguistics while gay slang is rarely present in the academic field, especially in Spain. The main objectives of the work enforced the need of deserved recognition of and respect for the LGBTQ culture, the illustration of the queer slang and its relevance in other disciplines. It was important to highlight the existence of a vocabulary thesaurus and phraseology in the LGBTQ speech by introducing the concepts of the lavender lexicon together with a brief mention to extinct polari language and to the black gay slang. Finally, in order to enhance the particularity of this (sub) language, it was relevant to stress the different handicaps found in a process of translation when dealing with gay language and the importance of their culture (in this case within Ru Paul’s Drag Race Show). To this effect, not only the aforementioned theoretical framework was stablished, but also a data collection of real speech samples were analyzed so that we could justify the richness of this interesting slang.
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