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I'm straight as a flagpole, but I thought this board would enjoy my story, and I have questions about the hanky code.
> Be me
> In 11th grade
> was really into Bruce Springsteen then
> Getting dressed for school on morning, have an idea.
> decide to put a bandana in my back pocket, to look like Bruce's album cover (pic related)
> About to walk out the door
> Dad stops me, tells me I LITERALLY look gay.
> Don't understand.
> He tells me that gay people in the 70's and 80's did that to signal that they were gay.
> Leave bandana home.
I had a red bandana on the right side, what did that mean?
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>>7709002
Hanky code is old school as shit, so a lot of young gays haven't even heard of it.
But if I remember right, it means you wanted to get fisted.
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>>7709002
Back when being openly gay could get you killed and the cops wouldn't care, codes like this were used. Some people loved that secret spy side to being a faggot.
The red hanky meant into fisting, the side signalled either dominant or passive.
There was a whole range of signals and there's been no need for them for decades now, even in the 80s it was more of an in-joke than a necessary thing.
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>>7709013
Yeah, at least in the clubs I went to, a lot of people wore any color hanky on either side, without knowing or indicating a specific meaning beyond "I'm gay".
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>>7709002
that's a red baseball cap btw
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>>7709058
Yeah I know, but I thought the bandana would look like it.
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Fucking kek, that means you like getting fisted
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>>7709015
This. The hanky code is very regional with different colors/patterns meaning different things if you are in new york or SF. Though some colors are universally recognized, like yellow meaning piss. But for the most part red, white, blue, and black (ie common colors) hankies all meant you were looking for sex and nothing really more beyond that.
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