Posted in Gay Bars & Clubs

America’s first gay bar?

Queerty has an interesting excerpt from Justin Martin’s new book, Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians, in which he suggests that in the…

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Posted in Leather Community Sexual Liberation

Origins of the hanky code

In the early 1970s, some gay men — particularly in the leather scene — began to wear colorful handkerchiefs to signal their sexual interests (e.g.,…

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