Aminado ako. Bakla ako. Lalake ang gusto ko. Pero pagdating sa paggamit ng baklese o gay lingo, mahina ako. Mabagal ang pick up ko.
At nitong Sept 9, nabasa ko ang colum ni Bum Tenorio. Dito natalakay ang mga linggo na kadalasang ginagamit ng mga bakla. Share ko lang sa inyo.
Here are some baklese terms from the names of famous celebrities and personalities now:
Wit or wiz is no.
Yesterday, flanguk or flanggana is yes.
Anda or Dats Entertainment is money.
X-men means gay, from the literal translation “former men.” Of course, its synonyms are: Badingger-Z, badesh, badesa, vaklur, beki, bekbek, bekimon. If someone is still in the closet, he’s called berdugo or berde ang dugo. A very handsome macho gay is called bektas or bekham.
Batang X is a young gay boy. He’s also called badette.
Tiburcio, Tumbang preso, Tom Babauta or Tivoli ice cream means tomboy.
Girlitas patatas, girls; umbaw, boys.
Lafuk is food; lafez or lafang is to eat.
Mudrabelles is mother; fudrabelles is father.
Mi-meander, from the Tagalog word memya, means later.Or later lily.
Bigamy is big. Cryola means to cry. Sheraton bed means to share.
Hipon is someone who has a drop-dead gorgeous body but not gifted with a nice face; lollipop means having a nice face with skinny physique.
Pamintang durog is someone who’s gay but does not admit it yet. Ditto with Peppermint Patty.
Thunders, Thunder Cats or Thunder Gozaimas means old. It can also be gurs, guribang or simply loley.
Kim Chiu means “kimkimin ang galit” or bottled up emotions.
Stress Drilon refers to a stressed-out person. (The word was first used in 2008, when TV journalist Ces Drilon was kept hostage by the Abu Sayyaf in Mindanao.)
Hagardo Versoza is haggard.
Hagardina Bonnevie is haggard yet still beautiful.
Tya Nena or Chanda Romero is tiyan or stomach.
Tom Jones, Tommy Hilfiger and Tommy Abuel all mean the same: hungry or gutom.
Busogie Alcasid means busog or full.
Afraidie Aguilar means afraid.
Dead Madela for deadma or dead malice.
Bill Blass for bilbil or love handles.
Charo Santos Conscious for getting conscious. If you blush after seeing your crush or hearing a joke, you’re getting Charo Santos-Concious.
Smellanie Marquez is to smell.
Pilar Pilapil means to fall in line.
Debrales simply means without bra.
Payatola Khomeini is a skinny person. Majubis is the antonym of Payatola.
Majinit Jackson means hot.
Kainez Veneracion or Kairita Avila means being in an irritating situation.
Carmi Martin is for karma.
Mahalia Mendez is mahal or expensive as opposed to Morayta, which means mura or cheap.
Criselda Volks, selda or prison; Lito Lapid, lips to lips; Aling Puring or Purita Kalaw, poor; Rica Peralejo, rich; Bitter Ocampo, bitter in life; Viveka Babajee, a person with long chin.
Julanis Morissette is ulan or rain. If the rain is strong, it’s called Renee Salud. If it’s a super typhoon, it’s Armida Siguion-Reyna. Remember, everything is in the root word — ulan or rain.
Lady Gaga is for, well, gaga. Nicki Minaj is for ménage a trois.
My friend Chong Ardivilla, a former Humanities professor at the University of the Philippines, says that I should not forget the word “badets” or gay cadets.
Issey Miyake is for nag-iisa or alone.
Cynthia Luster is for “Sino s’ya?”
Janno Gibbs means to give. Budji Layug is for budget. “I-Janno Gibbs mo ako ng Budji Layug so I can finish the project.”
Kalaban ni Hitler means small. The origin is from the word “Jew,” which sounds like jutay in Visayan dialect, meaning small. So, the bekbeks, knowing Hitler’s relationship with the Jews, arrived with the term — kalaban ni Hitler.
Zsa Zsa Padilla is an expression that is used to end a conversation (“O, s’ya.”) while Teofisto Guingona means to go or to leave. You say “Teofisto” when you bid someone goodbye. Here’s a sentence: Zsa Zsa Padilla, Teofisto Guingona na ako. (Okay, okay. I’m going home now.)
