Gay hanky codes
Hanky codes
Using hanky codes or 'flagging' was established in the early s as a way of letting other homosexual men know your sexual interests, practices and preferences; eg: a coloured bandana or hanky worn in a back jeans pocket. While the hanky’s colour and/or pattern determines the practice, its location determines how you like/ enjoy the practice:
- On the left: active top/ dom (doing it)
- On the right: passive/ bottom/ sub (having it done to you)
- Around the neck/ upper arm or wrist: if you choose not to pre-determine a role or you are versatile (active and passive)
While the range is extensive, several colours are the most widely recognised and still used today:
Light blue: sucking
Dark blue: fucking
Yellow: watersports
Black: weighty S&M
Grey: bondage
Red: fisting
Orange: into everything
Some of the colours are still used as code words on web app profiles; eg: "…looking for guys into red" and colours are also used in speech, eg: “I’m into yellow” rather than “I’m into watersports.”
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The handkerchief code (also known as the hanky code, the bandana code is a colour-coded system, employed usually among the gay male casual-sex seekers or BDSM practitioners in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe, to indicate preferred sexual fetishes, what kind of sex they are seeking, and whether th
Have you ever wondered the meaning of the colors that many gays wear in cruising bars? In this article you will find all the answers!
The Hanky code (also known as handkerchief code or bandana code) is a color-coded system employed in the gay leather ad kink community to indicate preferred sexual fetishes and roles.
In this code, each paint refers to a specific sexual preference / fetish.
Originally to indicate the shade , gay men used a bandana (handkerchief) put in the back pocket, but today are widespread wrist bands, armbands, bootlaces and stripes on clothing (leather trousers, shirts, ecc..)
History of the Hanky Code
The wearing of various colored bandanas around the neck was frequent in the mid- and late-nineteenth century among cowboys, steam railroad engineers, and miners in the Western United States.
It is reflection that the wearing of bandanas by gay men originated in San Francisco after the Gold Rush, when, because of a shortage of women, men dancing with each other in square dances developed a code wherein the man wearing the azure bandana took the male part