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Contents:

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

GAY HANKY COS FOR DUMMI

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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.

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

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.