Common signs and symbols that n help you tell if someone's gay or not like gay men flag, emojis and mannerism are discsed
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FLAG THIS! GAY MEN SYMBOLS AND MEANG BEHD THEM
Acrdg to a popular gay tattoo artist, Samuel Steward (also intified as Phil Sparrow), the gay associatn particular actually began adoptg tattoos the 1950s.
Steward himself was born 1909 and managed several different posns his life, cludg a teacher at a Roman Catholic universy and a wrer of gay pulp fictn. Steward issued his sights on gay men receivg tattoos his 1990 book ‘Bad Boys & Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo wh Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks. ’ Steward said: ‘One change, however, me about the homosexual attu towards tattoos around 1954.
’ He rumed: ‘Followg the natnal release of the movie The Wild One wh Marlon Brando; the origal motorcycle film, seemed to crystallize or release, the obscure and long-hidn feelgs of many homosexuals.
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Steward thks tattoos grew to a reprentatn of power for gay men, almost uned wh the gay leather muny. He said: ‘I was overwhelmed by the sudn appearance of so many of the figur… as the impulse of many homosexuals to be nsired more mascule – by the addn of a tattoo – grew stronger.
In Nazi Germany, the mid-1940s, gay mat ncentratn mps were ma to wrappg pk triangl as a symbol of shame.
In fact, one amic says the gay mat were the ‘lowt of the low’ the regime of the ncentratn mps.