Posters with messages written in secret LGBT language pop up in Tube stations

Posters with messages written in secret LGBT language pop up in Tube stations

Signs written in Polari are being displayed across London’s Underground network (Picture: TFL)

Transport for London (TfL) is marking Pride month by remembering a secret language the LGBTQ+ community used to use.

Homosexuality was illegal in England and Wales until 1967, forcing the community underground.

Up until about the 1970s, Polari – a language ‘made up of Italianate phrases, rhyming…

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