Male Gay Bar Etiquette - In My Humble Opn - Straight Dope Msage Board

Contents:

• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
• MALE GAY BAR ETIQUETTE
• GAY HANDSHAKE
• #GAYFLASHBACK: A HANDY HANKY CO PRIMER (COLORED BANDANAS YOUR BACK POCKET IS A SEXUAL SIGNAL –LEFT OR RIGHT?)
• I'M TOLD THAT THERE IS A GAY HANDSHAKE?

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO

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MALE GAY BAR ETIQUETTE

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GAY HANDSHAKE

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)The need to navigate one's inty through different social suatns, mixed wh the sire for regnn, has led gay men (and women, obvly, but this article is foced on the male si of this phenomenon) to velop subtle, often wordls methods of munitn wh others the of the systems have been historilly ed to broadst sexual sir, like the hanky , which saw s peak age the 1970s and '80s. In Gay New York, Gee Chncey c red neckti as one of the major "fairy" signifiers of the 1890s, and the 1930s there was "practilly a homosexual monopoly" on dark brown and gray sue sho the 1930s. Physil mannerisms,, why do gay men ntue to create and cultivate the systems of mostly non-verbal munitn wh each other?

I thk a lot of has to do wh the fact that gayns don't e wh hered physil tras or other visible intifiers on the body; we're forced to create our own. 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).

#GAYFLASHBACK: A HANDY HANKY CO PRIMER (COLORED BANDANAS YOUR BACK POCKET IS A SEXUAL SIGNAL –LEFT OR RIGHT?)

Male Gay Bar Etiquette - In My Humble Opn - Straight Dope Msage Board. The Gay Handshake is a mon greetg between two homosexuals who will later bee ually occurs a club, after a night out or durg a Grdr hookup and volv sexual activy (often a blowwie, sometim tertwed wh nversatn about random bgraphil the handshake is plete, the two dividuals will exchange numbers and beg a iendship or iendship wh the The Gay Handshake mug. A handshake that gays e to regnize each other so they n agree what public toilet and/or glory hole or public they n to have gay sex .

There are several stag of the gay handshake. The other party or prospective rec is approached by a gay g the " three fger lure", that is three fgers are held out as they start to shake hands.

The gay extends his middle fger toward the tenr area of the prospects palm.

I'M TOLD THAT THERE IS A GAY HANDSHAKE?

If there is no ristance, the gay begs to " tickle" the soft sk at the nter of the palm.

For the Gay Handshake mug. Gay Hanky Cos.

Gay men ed this to munite.