Kaliardà came up first in the beginning of the 20th century in Athens and other urban centers of Greece in order to create a secret language for marginalized LGBT people.
According to poet George La Nonce, the language was used as a code to recognize each other and to exclude others, for example in cruising spaces like parks or public toilets.
Petropoulos was arrested and spent 8 months in prison because of the publication of this dictionary during the military dictatorship.
[3] Trans filmmaker Paola Revenioti made a documentary film about the language in 2018.
The language also plays with foreign affixoids added to Modern Greek words.