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- HEADBANDS?... OL A GAY WAY OR JT GAY?
- PRO TENNIS PLAYER WEARS RABOW ACCSORI AFTER YELLG ANTI-GAY SLUR DURG THE OLYMPICS
HEADBANDS?... OL A GAY WAY OR JT GAY?
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There are suggtns started San Francis, but the first time the appeared wrg seems to have been early ’70s New York, when a journalist om Manhattan's Village Voice quipped that stead of wearg keys on the left or right si of the belt loop (to dite a preferred sexual posn), gay men were better off signalg their var sexual clatns by wearg different lored Larry Townsend's 1983 sequel to his semal queer text The Leatherman's Handbook, the thor broke down the system by lor. Bis the gang meang, there was a time when bandanas were also rrelated wh homosexualy.
PRO TENNIS PLAYER WEARS RABOW ACCSORI AFTER YELLG ANTI-GAY SLUR DURG THE OLYMPICS
So no one is gog to assume that you are gay for wearg a bandana (unls you are a gay bar, of urse). Bandanas worn around the neck were ed to reprent homosexualy. Wearg a bandana your back pocket was rrelated wh homosexualy back the day, but is no longer the se.
Earlier, due to the systemic opprsn faced by the gay muny, men had to rort to wearg bandanas and handkerchiefs to dite their sexual preference. headbands are gay.
It's still gay, but a ol gay way. I thk my full fcia unard is gay enough.