I’m so sartorially cluels that when I spot a gay guy wearg a brown hanky the left pocket, I ually thk, “Fashnable!” But of...
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GAY HANKY COS FOR DUMMI
The Hanky Co is a longstandg tradn and means of munitn wh the LGBT muny, most mon the gay male muny. It is thought that the wearg of bandanas by gay men origated San Francis after the Gold Rh, when, bee of a shortage of women, men dancg wh each other square danc veloped a where the man wearg the blue bandana took the male part the square dance, and the man wearg the red bandana took the female part (the bandanas were ually worn around the arm or hangg om the belt or the back pocket of one’s jeans). The gay muny, all over the world, fosters and celebrat diversy.
Leather, as a gay subculture, has been around for s. Thought to have evolved om biker culture the US around the 1940s, emerged partly rponse to a dissatisfactn at the effemate portrayal of gay men at the time. The hyper masculy of leather beg a rebelln om the mp stereotype that surround, and still today ntu to be attached to, gay male culture.
In eher se, the e of placement and lor to munite rol and preferenc form the basic aspects of the hanky that is known CenturyDurg the 1960s and 1970s, gay men wore hanki not only to signify their rol, but also their sexual preferenc and fetish.