The Gay Hankie Code: VIDEO
The boys from the YouTube video series Steam Room Stories discuss the intricacies of the gay hankie code, AFTER THE JUMP...
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While working at an apartment complex in a suburb of Mobile, Alabama I overheard a couple kids (like 10-14 year olds) explaining the Hanky Code to one of their friends. I didn't know whether to be amused that something I'd barely even heard about (I'm 32) had somehow percolated to those kids or horrified that THAT was the bit of GLBT history they were picking up.
Posted by: Jackson | May 5, 2012 1:21:39 AM
Nobody really knows why the epidemic hit the urban leather/biker community so early and so hard. A great deal of "heavy" kink-play is relatively "safe" sex, compared to bareback anal sex.
Raunch probably played a part, but *I* ALWAYS washed my hands between red-on-the-right partners (grin).
Posted by: Raymond Burgoon-Clark | May 5, 2012 2:09:38 PM
Now, how could anyone be scared of that incredibly cute boy with the rainbow hankie? He could convince me to do just about anything....
Posted by: Not_A_Slut | May 5, 2012 2:10:12 PM
Is it possible that back in the 70's str8 men, in construction and heavy machine operators used that printed red hankie in all innocence? Watching that vid brought back vague childhood memories of men in those professions using that red style as both bandanas and hankies. Never thought they were secret gays or fetishists.
Posted by: Contrarian | May 5, 2012 10:08:52 PM
Jackson, Your reaction must have been similar to mine when while sitting in a Barnes&Noble cafe' and realizing that the four mixed-gender 10th(?)-graders in the adjacent booth were reading quietly-aloud to their friends their favorite passages from the "Beauty"-series of gay/bi S&M novels by A. N. Roquelaure (Ann Rice).
Tenth-grade straight kids reading gay prom???....YIKES.
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment and Beauty's Release.
Posted by: Ted B. (Charging Rhino) | May 5, 2012 10:51:43 PM
I hope it is a joke that the hankie code nonsense is making a comeback.
Posted by: jack | May 6, 2012 12:32:12 AM