aesthetics LGBTQ slang camp http://homosaurus.org/v2/camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_(style) https://homosaurus.org/terms/camp https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000238 https://lgbt.wikia.org/wiki/Camp_(style) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q857784 An aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value. Camp aesthetics disrupt many of modernism's notions of what art is and what can be classified as high art by inverting aesthetic attributes such as beauty, value, and taste through an invitation of a different kind of apprehension and consumption. Camp can also be a social practice and function as a style and performance identity for several types of entertainment including film, cabaret, and pantomime. Where high art necessarily incorporates beauty and value, camp necessarily needs to be lively, audacious and dynamic. To speak, act, or in any way attract or attempt to attract attention, especially if noisily, flamboyantly, bizarrely, or in any other way calculated to announce, express, or burlesque one's own homosexuality or that of any other person. As a NOUN, camp refers to flamboyance or bizarrerie of speech or action, or to a person displaying it. The VERBAL NOUN, camping, is very common; it should be noticed that camping is largely a practice of male homosexuals, and is not very common among Lesbians. ADJECTIVE: campy. campy kaemp camp http://homosaurus.org/v2/camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_(style) https://homosaurus.org/terms/camp https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000238 https://lgbt.wikia.org/wiki/Camp_(style) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q857784 An aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value. Camp aesthetics disrupt many of modernism's notions of what art is and what can be classified as high art by inverting aesthetic attributes such as beauty, value, and taste through an invitation of a different kind of apprehension and consumption. Camp can also be a social practice and function as a style and performance identity for several types of entertainment including film, cabaret, and pantomime. Where high art necessarily incorporates beauty and value, camp necessarily needs to be lively, audacious and dynamic. To speak, act, or in any way attract or attempt to attract attention, especially if noisily, flamboyantly, bizarrely, or in any other way calculated to announce, express, or burlesque one's own homosexuality or that of any other person. As a NOUN, camp refers to flamboyance or bizarrerie of speech or action, or to a person displaying it. The VERBAL NOUN, camping, is very common; it should be noticed that camping is largely a practice of male homosexuals, and is not very common among Lesbians. ADJECTIVE: campy. campy kaemp Transgender slang, slurs, and controversial words LGBTQ orientation glossary Homosexual Slang A Dictionary of the Underworld Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture The Underground Dictionary Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies The Ultimate LGBT Glossary: all your questions answered The A – Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 1st Edition