Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lavender linguistics
Very well referenced with impeccable and unimpeachable academic sources, including several from the prestigious and highly regarded  Oxford University Press. This is an academic field within Linguistics, as indicated http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/wordoftheweek/archive/031031-lavender-language.htm here and http://www1.american.edu/cas/anthro/lavenderlanguages/ here, and they have been holding academic conferences for ten years. Therefore it's not a neologism, although apparently not well known outside the academic world. The use of LGBT subculture languages, e.g., LGBT slang and Polari, have a long history. The article is under construction, but already has way more than sufficient independent and significant reliable sources (22 at this point) to support |notability and |verifiability, added since nomination. This is an academic study of a subculture language, not an attack against a minority, and language subsets are used by groups based on socioeconomic class, ethnicity, regional geography, orientation, profession, gender, race, language and country of origin, etc. In fact, that is often one of the ways that such groups differentiate themselves and the members recognize each other
— User:Becksguy, 16:24, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:N||WP:V (Wikipedia:Notability)