Talk:Handkerchief code: Difference between revisions

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:::With nobody else having opposed the suggestion, and someone going so far as to Prod the article, as you noticed, I've gone ahead and removed the web-sourced table and made what I think are appropriate changes to the rest of the text. <span style="white-space:nowrap">– [[User:RobinHood70|RobinHood70]] <sup style="line-height:0">[[User talk:RobinHood70|talk]]</sup></span> 04:49, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

: '''Object''' I STRENUOUSLY AND VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE the deletion of the longer color list. I have lived in [[San Francisco, California]] and have been involved in [[BDSM]] since 1973 and I have seen people wearing every single one of the colors on the first 3/4 of the original list over the past 29 years. I have been to every[[Folsom Street Fair]] since the first one in 1984 and people have continued to wear them there. People still wear the colors today on the annual leather march from the [[Castro]] to Folsom Street one week before the Folsom Street Fair. As sources, besides the websites, there is also a printed reliable source, the recent 2009 book ''Leatherboy Handbook'' by Vincent L. Andrews Las Vegas:2009 Nazca Plains, Corp., that mentions 41 colors congruent with the list. I deleted colors in the last 1/4 of the original list that had dubious colors (as mentioned by RobinHood) that I have never anyone wearing or seen on the color code cards or in printed sources such as the Vincent L. Andrews book. [[User:Keraunos|Keraunos]] ([[User talk:Keraunos|talk]]) 13:50, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

::The various leather stores in San Francisco today as of 2012 still give out the printed color code cards mentioning the colors on the longer list and their meanings and they still sell all the bandana colors on the longer list. [[User:Keraunos|Keraunos]] ([[User talk:Keraunos|talk]]) 13:55, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

:::Obviously, it is true that the colors are worn much less often today, because a lot of gay people today [[Cruising for sex|cruise]] through the Internet instead of going to bars, so they can just state their preferences on the website rather than wear the colors to a bar. However, the longer list should definitely be preserved if only as a historical artifact. A sentence could be added simply saying that the colors are less used now because a lot of people cruise over the Intenet instead of going to bars. [[User:Keraunos|Keraunos]] ([[User talk:Keraunos|talk]]) 13:5055, 28 March 2012 (UTC)