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¿Qué es el Cruising?

El cruising es una actividad que consiste en practicar sexo con desconocidos en zonas o lugares públicos y también en locales especialmente habilitados para ello. He can hardly take his eyes off them as he asks the store clerk about them. Without batting an eye, the man rambles off various explicit sexual acts, associating each with a color of bandana. Many of the references are fairly graphic, so I will trust the gentle reader to Google them if curious.

It often seems that greater need for protection in the face of greater threat usually correlates with more of these symbols being shared, whereas a greater sense of safety often sees a downtick in such forms of communication, perhaps because they are deemed less necessary. Flagging as a form of queer semiotic communication used to be a more widely understood phenomenon, but in the age of apps like grindr and legalized gay marriage, it has all but gone extinct with many younger queer people never having heard of it.

Like many aspects of gay culture, the history of the hanky code is poorly documented and hotly disputed. The journalist joked that wearing colored bandanas to indicate sexual preferences might be easier and more comprehensive. Shortly after that, reference cards began popping up all over the gayborhood showing which colors referred to what, with the left pocket indicating a dominant interest and the right pocket indicating a submissive role.

Others, meanwhile, take the history much further back, citing the accepted convention at all-male square dances during the California Gold Rush of the s: Men who took on the feminine roles used a red handkerchief, while those who took the masculine role wore blue. In the s, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford brought hanky code into mainstream awareness by incorporating it into his stage persona and was often seen wearing a red bandana in his left pocket.

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Notable author and socialite Oscar Wilde, for example, famously brought a tendance Parisienne to London society in the 19th century when he began wearing a green carnation on the left lapel to signify his identity. Wilde, of course, would eventually be tried and imprisoned for being openly and publicly gay. Wearing a green carnation was subtle enough to probably not risk violence or persecution for most people, but just obvious enough to make a public statement of solidarity with other gay people.

The poet Walt Whitman also invoked a floral motif to signal gay identity in his poetry, this time the sweet flag, a flower said to have phallic connotations. Lavender flowers have also historically been associated with queerness, as well as the color lavender itself. Still, symbols used to nonverbally communicate queerness can often be simple and innocuous: A carabiner used to clip keys to your belt loop, the notorious lesbian manicure or Converse sneakers and a shaved head on someone assigned female at birth.

This has always felt more like a straight people response to queerness than something gay people did. Reappropriating the terminology becomes an empowering move. And though such actions have always been of value within queer communities, they feel particularly vital right now. Maybe we can even evolve it a little to reflect contemporary needs. What would a newer, more inclusive, more intersectional hanky code look like?

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