The handkerchief , also known as the hanky or the bandana , is a system that was ed by gay men to munite their sexual preferenc and terts.
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EXPLORG THE HANKY CO: A FASCATG PART OF GAY HISTORY
* gay bandana code *
Eroti shops, bookstor, and talogs provid r lists wh the purchase of bandanas, while gay bars prted the lists wh lotn rmatn as a form of marketg.
Practiced predomately by queer men the Bondage, Disciple, and Sado-Masochism (BDSM) or leather subculture, the hanky beme part of the gay mastream. Some may thk that the gay muny’s obssn wh fdg out the sexual proclivi of a potential partner is a trend of today.
GAY HANKY COS FOR DUMMI
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. It was a way for gay men, and members of the BDSM muny om the 60's to the 80's, to secretly signal their sexual terts at a time when homosexualy was very much owned upon.