Gay Hanky Cos For Dummi - The Village Voice

Contents:

• GAY HANKY COS FOR DUMMI
• GAY MEN FLAG COLOR COS WH HEX, RGB, CMYK & PANTONE

GAY HANKY COS FOR DUMMI

Some may thk that the gay muny’s obssn wh fdg out the sexual proclivi of a potential partner is a trend of today. Here, we take a look at the tools gay men have historilly ed to terme who is to what.

Color-d, this system has been historilly ed by gay men to dite preferred sexual fetish, what kd of sex they are seekg, and whether they are a top or is thought that the wearg of bandanas by 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. Gay rights monstratn at the DNC, New York Cy, 1976. In Gay Semtics, Hal Fischer wr:In San Francis, the signs began appearg around 1971.

Startg 1964, a bsman by the name of Bob Damron published a book of all the gay bars he knew om his nstant travels across the Uned Stat. In addn to gay and bi men, lbians would also wear their keys hangg on a cha om their pockets to dite top or bottom. One oft-repeated theory says a Village Voice wrer once jokgly suggted that gay men should dispense wh this bary key system and velop a more plex system to reflect a broar taxonomy of sexual sire, th sparkg the creatn of the hanky .

GAY MEN FLAG COLOR COS WH HEX, RGB, CMYK & PANTONE

The hanky has most often been associated wh gay and bisexual men, though don’t belong to jt them. I’m so sartorially cluels that when I spot a gay guy wearg a brown hanky the left pocket, I ually thk, “Fashnable!

To clarify thgs, here’s a “Gay Hanky Co” chart which tells you amazg tail what which lor means on what si–that is, if you still subscribe to the old-school gay hanky thg the first place.

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