Gay Terminology

Based on our discussion of terminology today, I poked around for any current reference guides of gay terminology/descriptive categories. In my Google musings, I found reference to historic "gay glossaries"; one of the first prominent glossaries was included in a work by Leo Pavia about legal structures and social attitude toward homosexuality in England ("Die männliche Homosexualität in England mit besonderer Berücksichtigung Londons"). In the glossary, Leo Pavia defines 16 words used by members of the gay community to describe each other and their actions. Gary Simes (linked below) relates the existence of such a glossary to the status of the gay urban subculture in London:

That a glossary could be made attests to the reality of a considerable and highly developed homosexual underworld in London and some other big cities. It was necessarily an underworld because of the criminal status of homosexual acts, which had been frighteningly re-affirmed some fifteen years before in the trial, conviction, and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. But it was in some respects also a demi-monde because otherwise respectable people frequented it, secretly of course, in order not to impair or lose their respectability.

Most of the references made to Leo Pavia's glossary were in journals about the evolution of slang, and I could only find a German copy of the original article. If anyone feels compelled to do some more digging for an English translation (or knows someone who speaks German), let me know!

Here are some links I looked at:
Gay Slang Lexicography: A Brief History and a Commentary on the First TwoGay Glossaries (Gary Simes)

A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries: Volume III: 1859-1936 (Julie Coleman)

"Die männliche Homosexualität in England mit besonderer Berücksichtigung Londons (I. L. Pavia) - original German